Nottingham City Council spending extra £100,000 on legal aid as it struggles to recruit
Nottingham City Council is to spend an additional £100,000 on legal aid as it continues to be plagued by an inability to recruit permanent staff members. The cash will go towards a solicitor over the course of a year as it seeks to become financially stable.
So far the council has managed to decrease its debt levels from £1.2 billion to £900 million, primarily through the success of its asset rationalisation programme through which it has been selling off property assets it no longer needs, however its progress has come at a cost, too. The council has been struggling to recruit permanent roles and it lacks the required expertise in a number of areas.
The city council says: "The work undertaken by the locum property solicitor supports a key deliverable for the council under the Together for Nottingham Plan. There was, and remains, insufficient capacity within the existing permanent staffing establishment to deliver the disposals required under the Asset Rationalisation Programme, which is an ongoing scheme of high value to the council.
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