Wirral Council appoints strategic director (From Wirral Globe)
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Wirral Council appoints strategic director
9:29am Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
Joe Blott
WIRRAL Council has announced the appointment of a new strategic director.
Joe Blott will take up the “transformation and resources” portfolio.
During three years at Warrington Council, Mr Blott has overseen a several major service transformations.
Mr Blott has been employed in the public sector for 34 years, having previously worked at Knowsley, Wigan and Liverpool authorities and the voluntary sector in Merseyside.
Leader of Wirral Council Cllr Phil Davies said: “Joe brings vital experience to this role and has numerous successes in strategic management, leading and delivering results.
“He joins us at a challenging, but exciting time, and I’m sure he will play a major role in making the council and the borough the success that its residents, staff and stakeholders truly deserve.”
Comments(14)
woodyres2
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10:38am Tue 22 Jan 13
I thought WBC was trying to save money and we await news of job losses .... you are right PaulCa, we are watching ...
bigfoot
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11:27am Tue 22 Jan 13
spamfiend
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12:21pm Tue 22 Jan 13
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Seems a similar story to here, so maybe Mr Blott is another one of the boys after all!
bigfoot
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1:20pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Any gossip from the 19th hole?
djrimmer
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10:26am Wed 23 Jan 13
bickyboy
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10:55am Thu 24 Jan 13
"Exciting", Mr Davies? No: "depressing and totally unnecessary".
Had you and Foulkes kept the local house in order when you were running the show you might still be in charge, and had your national party not flung public money around like it was going out of fashion the Tories would never have had the chance to inflict their destructive ideology on our local services.
Good luck, Mr Blott: you're going to need it. By the time the Tories have finished you'll be lucky to oversee one dustcart and a children's roundabout.
bickyboy
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10:57am Thu 24 Jan 13
Hugo1008
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12:21pm Thu 24 Jan 13
More importantly remember whatever the new super directors and the CEO do or don't do is entirely down to the Clueless bunch of parasites who claim the title of Elected Councilors.
It is those Councilors for the most part who have brought Wirral Borough Council down to the level of abject disgrace and scandal that now prevails. Not any national Government of any political belief, but pure and simple total lack of Proper Local Governance for the past twenty years.
It is also the present bunch for the most part who sanctioned and agreed to the disgraceful payoffs and cover ups with copious buckets of white wash.
PaulCa
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6:13pm Thu 24 Jan 13
It was hideously misconceived at the outset - because if Klonowski had declared her prior interest (training councillors and senior officers since 2006) then she would NOT have been given the job - and councillors probably would NOT have been put in the clear.
Which frankly STINKS to high heaven and always will.
Once she got the gig, she was able to apparently protect elected officials and cover up from the start by refusing to take minutes or tape record when interviewing the investigation's participants.
What rankles even more is that we paid for this. And because the names of the actual abusers remain deliberately hidden, we've paid £810,000+ in lining the pockets of those largely anonymous abusers.
PaulCa
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6:22pm Thu 24 Jan 13
There may still be others working for the council or elected members who have had their name replaced by an "employee number" within the AKA report - purely and cynically to protect them.
There are ham-fisted moves underway now to bury the AKA report where the sun doesn't shine:
http://tinyurl.com/b
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ordinary personn
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9:20am Fri 25 Jan 13
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Graham Burgess - Liverpool lad, Everton supporter.
Kevin Adderley - Knowsley lad, Everton supporter
Joe Blott Knowsley lad - wonder if he likes footie? ;)
Thepleb
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12:39pm Fri 25 Jan 13
Sums it up when the leader of the council describes cuts and job losses and general poverty and misery as exciting times...
Perhaps blotto boy could transform and change the 66 councillors who have their noses firmly in the trough if there is cuts to made that would be a good start..
reliant22
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10:26pm Sun 27 Jan 13
No really, if you heard what I heard from an employee at Warrington Council, you would not give him any chance. One of the gang by all accounts and just as bad as Wirral Council, that`s Warrington. Watch them and see what happens! Where is `dave Green`? I`ve been missing for a while and lost touch.
PaulCa says...
9:34am Tue 22 Jan 13