Ealing Council loses fourth senior manager in six months

Mike Leadbetter has quit his job as interim director of Ealing
social services, the fourth senior manager to leave the council in
the past six months, writes Derren
Hayes. 

Leadbetter, the former president of the Association of Directors of
Social Services, resigned just six months after joining the council
at the end of last year following the retirement of Norman Tutt,
then director of housing and social services, at the end of his
five year contract. Julie Hollyman, former chief executive of the
West London NHS Mental Health Trust, has replaced Leadbetter in the
interim.

Last month, Caroline Whalley, executive director of education also
left the council and this followed the departure at the end of last
year of Minna Natthoo, director of diversity and talent.