The email, signed by the department’s directors including Ann Gross, head of early years, and Jeanette Pugh, head of safeguarding, reveals the directorate’s budget will be £21.7m for 2012/13, a reduction of around 13 per cent from October last year.
The number of full-time equivalent posts will also fall from last October’s level of 436 to 330 during the coming financial year. This will not account for the transferral of staff from the Children’s Workforce Development Council after it is disbanded at the end of the month.
The email states: "The directorate will get smaller over the coming year. For our policy groups, our administration budget for next year was set at the start of the business planning process at around £21.7m.
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