A COUNCILLOR says he is getting “more and more concerned” about the volume of reports SIC staff are having to prepare for meetings. Robbie McGregor made the comment at Tuesday’s meeting of the full council amid concern over staff workload. It came after Lerwick South.
SOCIAL care workers in the isles have received a substantial pay increase in recognition of a much-changed job that now involves many duties nurses would have carried out in the past. Following a review of social care workers’ job descriptions that got underway before Covid,.
SHETLAND Islands Council has taken in nearly £5 million through property and land sales in the last decade, latest figures show. The highest sale during this period was a site at Fogralea in Lerwick for £250,000 in 2016. The figures also include the £1 community asset.
THE PRINCIPAL of UHI Shetland has called for a different funding model for island colleges amid a financial crisis that will lead to the newly formed college losing a substantial number of staff. Professor Jane Lewis said the current funding model for the university and colleges.