CLG to Cut Third Of Staff

The Communities and Local Government department is to cut its staffing level by almost a third. The CLG will lose roughly 700 posts from its current 2,200. It said that it was using ‘voluntary departure schemes’ to minimise the need for compulsory redundancies. A spokesperson for the department said it was becoming ‘smaller and stronger’. ‘Our role will alter significantly, doing more enabling and less intervening and playing a more strategic role,’ he said. Read more on Inside Housing.