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Recruiting and Retaining Staff Becoming an Issue for Scarborough Borough Council

It's not just the hospitality and care sectors are that are experiencing recruitment issues on the Yorkshire Coast, the Borough Council is finding it hard to get new staff too.

A heavy workload and an uncertain future is causing some staffing issues for Scarborough Borough Council.

It's staff are currently dealing with increased workloads around local government reorganisation as well as the borough's town deal funding projects and implementing the government's fuel grant payments.

Council Director - Nick Edwards - says it's a difficult situation.

The council will cease to exist in less than a year's time as part of local government reorganisation.

Nick Edwards - says some staff are starting to drift away and replacing them is tough.

 

 

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