Steven Broomhead to return as chief executive of Warrington Borough Council

2:40pm Thursday 24th May 2012 in News

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STEVEN Broomhead is to return to Warrington Borough Council as interim chief executive, the Guardian can reveal.

He will take over from Diana Terris on a temporary basis from next month.

Ms Terris is leaving to move to a new job in Barnsley in July.

Mr Broomhead will take on the role on a part time basis for six months from June 26, subject to the backing of the council on June 25.

The decision was made with unanimous cross-party support from the chief officer employment committee, according to the council.

Council leader Clr Terry O’Neill said: “We are pleased that Steven has accepted our offer of the position of interim chief executive.

“He will play a critical role over the next six months in helping to reshape the council in the light of huge financial pressures.

“Steven has an outstanding track record and shares our vision for putting the people of Warrington first so I have every confidence his considerable experience will stand him in good stead for this role.”

Chairman at the Warrington Wolves, he previously occupied the position for five-and-a-half years before leaving in 2003 to take over as head of the Northwest Regional Development Agency.

He was the first chief executive at Warrington Town Hall to earn more than £100,000 a year.

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Cleopatra says...
2:59pm Thu 24 May 12

Poor Barnsley! They don't know what they have coming!

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grey_man says...
3:27pm Thu 24 May 12

Is Steven Broomhead being paid for this or is he returning his pension during this period? Serious question.

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Boxerboy says...
5:16pm Thu 24 May 12

This man collects jobs and titles like idi Amin did medals

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the dr who says...
6:06pm Thu 24 May 12

if its wasnt so pathetic it would be funny.

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comwgn says...
7:58pm Thu 24 May 12

grey_man says...

True waiting to see an answer

talk about jobs for the boys and old boys network what a scam. from one golden handshake to another a

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old-codger says...
8:03pm Thu 24 May 12

This job is on top of his very large council pension, Old school tie comes to mind.

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grey_man says...
9:23pm Thu 24 May 12

Well before we lynch the bloke, we should wait to see what the arrangements are. The other news site is saying that he's on 120k pro rata, which is obviously less than Diana Terris was trousering for screwing everything up.

The interesting question for me is whether he is being paid to do a job from which he is drawing a pension. Will also be interesting to know if he is being paid through a limited company as a way of avoiding tax.

Apart from that, you have to question the wisdom of a council which is already profoundly distrusted by residents - and for very good reasons - employing a former chief executive. A new broom was needed, if you'll pardon the pun.

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Nick Tessla says...
10:21am Fri 25 May 12

it is also the costs at parsish level that need looking at.

A report in this week's paper stated that the expenses for the chairman of Poulton eith fearnhead PARISH council had been CAPPED at £12,0000 per year.

These are to cover food, accommodation and travel - can't see any neeed for a parish council chairman to claim for food and accommodation, so that's £12,000 per year on petrol? - kerching! How big is the parish?

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Nick Tessla says...
10:22am Fri 25 May 12

sorry that's "12,000" not "12,0000"

still bad enough

:-)

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Nick Tessla says...
12:15pm Fri 25 May 12

Public bodies have procedures to ensure an open recruitment processa and, amongst other things, to avoid accusations, real or , of back room deals, personal favours,funny handshakes etc..


There is also the matter of ensuring equality of opportunity.


It has to be asked whether such considerations were thrown out when appointing a public sector insider to this well paid role.

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Nick Tessla says...
12:20pm Fri 25 May 12

CORRECTION


Public bodies have procedures to ensure an open recruitment process in order to, among other things, avoid accusations, real or otherwise, of back-room deals,personal favours, funny handshakes etc.


There is also the matter of ensuring equality of opportunity.


It has to asked whether such considerations were thrown out when appointing a public sector insider to this well paid, council tax payer funded, role.

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Karlar says...
5:25pm Fri 25 May 12

When the public sector was reorganized not so many years ago well many established "executive" jobs-worths doubled ,some even tripled, their salaries overnight merely by moving from one authority to another. We've been picking up the pieces of that fiasco ever since.

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hatto9 says...
6:50pm Fri 25 May 12

this is the man that will screw every decent person in warrington and not think twice about it he is not to be trusted he is out to line his own pocket as always. he should be thrown out without a second glance

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Karlar says...
7:28pm Fri 25 May 12

When the post of Town Clerk (a true and proper description of their role in office) morphed into that of Chief Executive Officer (a fallacy - because they never take responsibility for their actions or those of their staff), our employed officers really believed they could walk on water and dictated to our elected members how they should and should not behave.

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Knowmenot says...
11:04pm Sun 27 May 12

Having read all the comments on this subject there appear to be two issues:
People who comment are too careless to check their spelling, capitals and punctuation thus making their (serious) point not credible, and
Diana Terris is moving on from a prior position as a Social worker, via Warrington, to head up another position where I wonder at the credibility of the Councillors which appointed her.

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grey_man says...
11:28pm Sun 27 May 12

Have you ever heard of Godwin's Law? :)

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grey_man says...
11:30pm Sun 27 May 12

Actually, I meant Skitt's Law. So we've both fallen foul of it.

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Nick Tessla says...
11:06am Mon 28 May 12

What about the Peter Principal?

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grey_man says...
11:55am Mon 28 May 12

Knowmenot will be along shortly to tell you it's 'principle'.

I'd chuck a bit of Parkinson's Law in as well. Nothing else can explain how Diana Terris can have a job paying £200k as well as five directorships and receiving £30k as the returning officer except for the fact she wasn't busy enough as WBC CEO.

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Nick Tessla says...
4:09pm Mon 28 May 12

grey_man wrote:
Knowmenot will be along shortly to tell you it's 'principle'. I'd chuck a bit of Parkinson's Law in as well. Nothing else can explain how Diana Terris can have a job paying £200k as well as five directorships and receiving £30k as the returning officer except for the fact she wasn't busy enough as WBC CEO.
i must have been thinking of the Victoria Principal, which concerns the relationship between the glossiness of a Dallas Wife's lips and the chance of her dead husband being found alive in the shower


:-)

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Nick Tessla says...
4:11pm Mon 28 May 12

Knowmenot wrote:
Having read all the comments on this subject there appear to be two issues: People who comment are too careless to check their spelling, capitals and punctuation thus making their (serious) point not credible, and Diana Terris is moving on from a prior position as a Social worker, via Warrington, to head up another position where I wonder at the credibility of the Councillors which appointed her.
WHO appointed her not "which"

:-)

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grey_man says...
4:56pm Mon 28 May 12

There are others Nick. This is why you should never get hung up on grammer* and spellin* on an internet messageboard.

That's before you get into the use of 'having' as the first word in the opening sentence and the liberal sprinkling of commas.

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ziggyboy says...
6:44am Tue 29 May 12

Is the good Professor still chair of Warrington Health and Wellbeing Board?

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Karlar says...
11:42pm Tue 29 May 12

Some one should explain Terris's Law, it seems to exist in a parallel universe. I'm sure the citizens of Barnsley will like to be forewarned.

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Gaunch says...
2:39pm Sun 3 Jun 12

When I read this I thought it was a joke, Broomhead left the Council to become CEO of the North West Development Agency, took his pal Bernice Law with him, then got a formal warning for sending racist texts, employed a friend as his chauffer, then oversees £3.5 million pounds of our money donated to the University in Liverpool, then leaves the NWDA (for a better work/life balance) to walk into a job as a Professsor at ....yes you guessed, Liverpool University (which was never advertised). Now back at the Borough Council, nice work if you can get it. He should be ashamed of his actions and behaviour.

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