Youth and community officers are currently being consulted on whether to accept a final offer from Local Government Employers (LGE) of a revised pay scale that will raise the maximum service managers can earn. The offer is part of a series of negotiations for youth officers working on the Soulbury pay scale, which is a scale for management level staff that recognises professional roles and qualifications. It currently has 16 points, although a number of the lower points are rarely used because they...