Tames Council Chief Executive Resigns!

 

Steven Pleasant - Chief Executive of Tameside Council

One suspects that there's far more to the sudden resignation of of Steven Pleasant than a mildly derogatory tweet about Conservative voters.

There has been a recent change of leadership within Tameside Council and the council have received another scathing report by Ofsted into children's services. Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Denton and Reddish, wants the government to intervene and to take control of children's services, out of the hands of Tameside Council. Two cabinet members who have responsibility for children's services, Councillor Oliver Ryan and deputy leader, Councillor Bill Fairfoull, continue to hold the portfolio.

Steven Pleasant, who was paid £220,000 a year as the Chief Executive of Tameside Council, spent most of his adult life working for Tameside Council, and he would have known that as a senior local government officer (Chief Executive) and the Returning Officer, that he was in a politically restricted post and not allowed to show political bias. So why did he send the infamous tweet that cost him his job? This looks like he's bailing out. Is Tameside Council about to go belly up?