Section 188 Notices issued in 2010

In 2010, a section 188 Notice was published for 1,400 employees working within the Council. A Section 188 Notice including all Corporate and Service Directors, Heads of Service and Service Manager level posts across the County Council was also issued.

Section 188 Notice for 1,400 employees

This Notice was issued as a result of the publication of the service review proposals, the Council-wide service reviews and the need for the Council to make £69 million of savings in 2011/12.

The Notice was published in two parts.

Part one

Part one is by department and contains posts included in the service review information which was considered by Members at the Full Council meeting on October 21 2010.

Read more about the service review proposals.

The posts on the first part of the Section 188 Notice relate to proposals where there is a proposed staffing reduction in 2011/12.

View the list of posts potentially at risk of redundancy as a result of the service reviews:

Part two

Part two of the Notice contains information on three of the cross-cutting reviews and identifies posts that carry out a similar role across the organisation:

Business support
Communications
Learning and Development, Workforce Planning and Developement

Please note: The final totals on each list need to be viewed in the context of both departmental and cross cutting reviews. We have tried to ensure consistency in how the potential impact on posts has been presented across the County Council. However, given the complexity of the exercise, there is the potential for posts from different service areas to be included in different parts of the Notice or to have been included in previous notices. There is also the potential for duplication of posts. Therefore, the overall figures on the separate lists may not balance exactly.

Business support

This section lists posts involved in the review and rationalisation of all business support and administrative posts across the County Council. The Section 188 Notice identifies a potential 30% reduction overall. However, the detailed future operating model is still being developed and will be the subject of future consultation with affected staff, managers and the recognised trade unions.

View the Section 188 Notice for Business Support [XLS 180KB]

Read more about the cross cutting review for business support.

Communications

This section lists posts involved in the centralisation and rationalisation of communications functions across the County Council.

View the Section 188 Notice for Communications [XLS 40KB]

Read more about the cross cutting review for Communications.

Learning and Development, Workforce Development and Planning

This section lists posts involved in the centralisation and rationalisation of Learning and Development, Workforce Development and Planning across the Council.

View the Section 188 Notice for learning and development, workforce development and planning [XLS 40KB]

Timeframes

The publication of the Section 188 Notice marked the start of a consultation with employees and the recognised trades unions to look at ways to reduce the number of redundancies through redeployment, the vacancy protocol or voluntary redundancy.

The 90-day consultation periods ended as follows:

Building schools for the future and property services - 18 October 2010
Management and supervision, and schools strategy consultants - 7 December 2010
Departmental service reviews - 11 January 2011
Business support - 11 January 2011
Communications - 11 January 2011
Learning and Development, Workforce Development and Planning - 11 January 2011

Section 188 Notice for managers

Due to the financial pressures facing the Council, senior managers were issued with a Section 188 Notice in 2010. This Section 188 Notice included all Corporate and Service Directors, Heads of Service and Service Manager level posts across the County Council.

View the Section 188 Notice for managers and supervisory posts [XLS 176KB]