Oldham ALMO appoints new chief executive
Oldham’s arm’s-length management organisation has appointed an executive director from Liverpool council as new its CEO.
Cath Green joins First Choice Homes Oldham, replacing Hugh Broadbent who is retiring.
Oldham council is currently transferring its 12,000 homes to FCHO, which will become a new housing association by the end of this year.
Chair of the board Harry Burns welcomed Ms Green’s appointment and said: ‘Hugh has overseen a massive transformation to homes and neighbourhoods in Oldham since joining the council as director of housing 15 years ago.
‘Under his stewardship we have twice achieved a two-star rating from the Audit Commission, which has unlocked over £120 million to enable homes to reach the government’s decent homes standard.’
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Anonymous | 12/08/2010 2:09 pm
Alright for some.....she got a payout from Liverpool for taking redundancy and now gets this!
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/08/02/five-top-liverpool-council-officials-take-redundancy-in-management-cull-92534-26977664/
Another waste of our money! She would have known this was in the pipeline when she took redundancy too - maybe the council in liverpool should look at this again.
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David Clegg | 12/08/2010 2:25 pm
You take redundancy, you get a payout. No problem there.
You get another job. Nope, no problem there either.
The world's gone mad.
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Anonymous | 12/08/2010 3:22 pm
You are telling me she didn't know about the job before she took very swift redundancy - gimme a break. It's ok - it is only my taxes paying her large redundancy pay out.
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David Clegg | 13/08/2010 8:45 am
Whether she knew about it or not, I fail to see why she should be attacked for leaving one job and securing another. Welcome to the real world.
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Anonymous | 13/08/2010 10:18 am
It is the huge payout she got that annoys me - i get rubbish services, yet they can afford to pay out massive redundancy.
Perhaps you should get into the real world - the world where payouts like this must stop when we know the current economic climate we have to live, and work in.
No doubt you are another housing professional sticking up for another - I suppose it is to be expected.
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David Clegg | 13/08/2010 11:34 am
I completely agree with the rubbish services argument, almost without exception the public sector provides an inefficient level of service - and it annoys me that our tax dollars get 'wasted' in this way.
However, in the 'real world', payouts for Executive Directors (or similar) would be far, far greater. The public sector is nothing like the real world, salaries, benefit packages and payouts are exponentially higher in the private sector (slight exaggeration, but you get the idea).
Perhaps this is why there is such inefficiency in the public sector, the old adage of 'you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.'
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