Bolton Council spend on redundancies amid ‘significant pressures’

The council made around 60 people redundant in the year leading up to March 2024, at a total cost of around £746,000.

But leader Cllr Nick Peel says that despite recent cuts to the authority’s budget they have avoided making any of these redundancies’ compulsory.

Cllr Peel said: “We’ve always had a long stated policy of voluntary early severance and then moving staff around to fill vital positions, which has sustained us…