There are currently some intriguing ‘Situations Vacant’ at Wirral Council. Although you’d be forgiven for thinking that some senior management positions are always vacant even when there is someone in post!
Understandably, following the hasty departure of John Wood the Director of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND,) there now seems to be a clean sweep going on in this particularly problematic area of Children’s Services. No doubt this is in anticipation of a forthcoming Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman report and other matters which the SEND department wish to draw a discreet veil over.
Before you all rush at once might we suggest that prospective candidates remind themselves of Wirral Council’s historical commitment to people with disabilities . This is the place that historically a former Assistant Director of Social Services commented in a public meeting that disabled people were at ‘the bottom of the barrel’ and seemed to be quite happy for them to remain there. And as for children with special needs and disabilities this is a place where in 2019 a disabled schoolchild can be deliberately left naked outside for twenty minutes in the freezing February cold.
Meanwhile another recruitment campaign is being undertaken for a Head of Legal Services :
Hang on you might be saying don’t Wirral Council already have one of those in the form of Philip McCourt ? Well, apparently this post will be answerable to McCourt as the council’s Monitoring Officer. Clearly McCourt ,despite wangling a considerable pay rise to retain his services, doesn’t want to be concerned with the mundane day-to-day legal wrangling that working for Wirral Council engenders . Indeed the council are lucky if McCourt graces them with his presence at all – and who can blame him? Who in their right mind would willingly choose to spend time in the cesspit that is Wallasey Town Hall? But then McCourt has been calling the shots for some time, ever since he devised that cunning plan to get senior councillors out of a dark,deep hole of their own making. However we’d just like to remind McCourt that his notorious predecessors as Monitoring Officer. Bill Norman and Surjit Tour thought they too were untouchable – due to what they knew and what they’d colluded with – and look what happened to them!…
Wirralleaks 
Not sure of the relevance around recruitment within Wirral Council has to do with your blog, sounds like desperate times, clutching at straws time while you drink pomade & slither oysters down your neck 🤓
You’re obviously new to the blog Harold.
And we know that whilst at least one of us is an old soak we haven’t turned to drinking ‘pomade’ just yet. We think we’ll save the pomade for what’s left of our hair and stick with the meths…
C’mon Hadge
Tell us yer real name you cowardly custard.
Ooroo
James
Go on Crispy Crème tell us.
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G’day Leaky
I haven’t read this item yet but I bet the ads are not for
Auditors
Honest Accountants
Decent People
Ooroo
James
Masons and Buffalo’s are……………………………
Luv yer l;addy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Here’s another one with a low regard for disabled people … but with a keen eye for publicity.
G’day Leaks
Head of Legal Services 36 hours.
That must be just keeping Foulkes out of the shit.
Ooroo
James
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