From the Sunday Telegraph:
Mike Mackay, an IT manager for the Youth Justice Board, (YJB) a quango charged with overseeing youth justice and the rehabilitation of young criminals, has been paid almost £1 million over the past three years, making him one of the highest-paid public servants in the country…
Freedom of Information requests and the YJB’s annual accounts reveal that in 2007 Mr Mackay was paid £330,000 for his services. Last year that rose to £351,499, according to the Daily Mail.
This year, he was paid £336,000, which is more than ten times the salary of a youth worker.
A spokesman for the YJB said Mr Mackay is paid as a consultant and said that a proportion of his pay is taken by the recruitment agency which provided him.
Liberal Democrat justice spokesman David Howarth, who is campaigning against overpaid public sector consultants, added: “It seems difficult to justify this level of expenditure given the funding constraints imposed on the criminal justice system.”
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It’ll be worst with the Tories but at least (?) it won’t be going on quango’s but more to that select wealthy 10% group in the UK..
Why don’t they just employ an IT manager directly rather than paying a consultant and a recruitment company? Seems a clear and pretty deliberate waste of money.
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