Senior staff structure and pay
The Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2011 (Statutory Instrument 2011/817) requires local authorities to publish:
- The number of employees whose salary in that year was at least £50,000 in brackets of £5,000
- Details of salary and job title of certain senior employees whose salary is at least £50,000
- Employees whose salaries are £150,000 or more must also be identified by name
- A list of responsibilities and details of bonuses and ‘benefits in kind’ for all employees whose salary exceeds £50,000
The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 also requires us to publish an organisation chart covering the top three levels of the organisation.
Senior Leadership Team Structure
Chief Executive
Duncan Sharkey
Children, Families and Education Services
- Executive Director: Claire Winter
- Service Director, Children and Families: Jayne Shelbourn-Barrow
- Service Director, Education: Vacant
- Service Director, Commissioning and Performance: Henrietta Barkham
Adults Services and Housing
- Executive Director: David Coleman-Groom
- Service Director, Adult and Health Operations: Emily Fulbrook
- Service Director, Adults Commissioning: Paul Coles
- Service Director, Housing: Kirsty Larkin
Community, Place and Economy
- Executive Director: Chris Hall
- Service Director, Infrastructure and Transport: Mike O’Dowd-Jones
- Service Director, Regulatory and Operations: Sarah Dowden
- Service Director, Partnership, Localities and Culture: Sara Skirton
- Service Director, Economic Development, Skills and Climate: Paul Hickson
Resources, Strategy and Transformation
- Executive Director: Alyn Jones
- Service Director, Human Resources and Organisational Development: Dawn Bettridge
- Service Director, Digital Services: Andy Kennell
- Service Director, Strategy, Performance and Communications: Sara Cretney
- Service Director of Public Health: Alison Bell
Finance
- Interim Chief Finance Officer (Section 151): Lizzy Watkin
- Service Director, Finance and Procurement: Nicola Hix
Pay policy
We are required by Section 38 of the Localism Act 2011 to produce Pay Policy Statements. These include the authority’s policy on pay distribution and the relationship between the salary of chief officers and the salary of other staff.
The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires local authorities to publish the pay multiple, defined as the ratio between the highest paid taxable earnings for the given year and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority’s workforce.
The measure must:
- Cover all elements of remuneration that can be valued
- Use the median earnings figure as the denominator, which should be that of all employees of the local authority on a fixed date each year, coinciding with reporting at the end of the financial year, and
- Exclude changes in pension benefits, which due to their variety and complexity cannot be accurately included in a pay multiple disclosure
Pay multiple
The pay multiple can be found within the Somerset Council Pay Policy Statement at Section 8 – Chief Officer Remuneration relative to other Council employees.
Previous Pay Policy Statements
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