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The Urgent Business Committee will hear on Thursday that between 30 and 40 primary and secondary posts are unfilled. The proposal is to offer successful candidates, who are new to the city, an additional payment on taking up a post. There would be a further payment at the end of an agreed period of service. It is estimated the initiative could cost about £260,000. The staffing situation for primary schools, and in some subject areas in secondary schools, is described as "looking extremely challenging". 'National interest' The report notes: "It is recommended that committee approve the use of recruitment and retention incentive payments for hard-to-fill teaching posts. "This proposal should allow the city to attract high-quality teachers, which will ensure that a positive learning experience for pupils in the city's primary schools, and help to raise attainment." It adds: "There is likely to be interest from the public and from other local authorities in the proposal to pay additional monies to teachers. "As the first local authority in Scotland to be proposing such a move, it is likely that there will be national interest in this initiative." 'Unusual step' A spokesman for the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said: "Teachers' terms and conditions are agreed nationally by the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers, and it is important that pay is sufficient to attract top quality graduates into the teaching profession across Scotland. "Aberdeen City Council has identified a particular recruitment problem, and is taking an unusual - though not unprecedented - step to address the issue. "The EIS will be monitoring the result, while continuing to believe in the importance of nationally agreed pay and conditions for teachers which reward all teachers fairly for the valuable work that they do. "This particular situation also identifies the need for sound workforce planning processes, and for councils to identify their staffing needs early to allow appropriate time for advertising and recruitment to fill all vacant posts."
Aberdeen City Council is considering extra "incentive" payments for teachers worth thousands of pounds to tackle staffing levels.

By Sarah DickinsBBC Wales economics correspondent Ford has confirmed that its contract to supply JLR with petrol engines will cease in September 2020. Union leaders said it was "the news we most feared" and put 1,100 jobs at risk. The company said that it was disappointing news but that it was looking at new business opportunities. Half of the workforce of 1,930 at Bridgend work on that engine. At the moment Ford Bridgend makes half a million engines a year for Ford's own models and a quarter of a million for JLR. After 2020 the number of engines being made on the site will be just a quarter of present production levels. Ford said it was not giving any detail as yet of how the workforce will be run down as it is in consultation with unions. A spokesman said it would "continue to look at other high technology opportunities for Bridgend in the future." Last month, the workforce voted for industrial action over concerns about the plant's future. JLR said: "Ford has been, and remains, an important strategic supplier to Jaguar Land Rover under an agreement which was negotiated to support our business until the end of the decade." The GMB union said it was the news it most feared and it called for an urgent meeting with the economy secretary. Jeff Beck, regional organiser, added: "Unless alternate contracts are found, this will have a devastating and far reaching impact on the communities in and around Bridgend as well as across south Wales as a whole." Economy Secretary Ken Skates called the decision "very disappointing" and said the Welsh Government remained absolutely committed to doing all it could to protect the plant. He added: "We are calling on JLR to confirm that this move will not sacrifice jobs in Wales and displace them to the West Midlands." Plaid Cymru AM Bethan Jenkins said: "We must find more work for the plant and find ways for it to diversify". The Bridgend plant has won investment of £100m to make the next generation of engines, called the Dragon, for Ford cars. Originally it was a cash injection of £181m but that was reduced to £125m in September 2016. In line with that, the planned number of Dragon engines was cut from 250,000 a year to 125,000.
Production of engines for Jaguar Land Rover at the Ford Engine plant in Bridgend will stop three months earlier than had been expected.

It looked at cash payments made to Bryn Parry-Jones in lieu of pension contributions. It followed an inquiry by the Wales Audit Office which said the council acted unlawfully by letting him opt out of a pension scheme to avoid tax. Police said no further action would be taken on the matter. It is the second police inquiry into Mr Parry-Jones after an earlier investigation found no evidence to suggest any criminal offences. The latest inquiry also found no criminal offences. A spokesman for Dyfed-Powys Police said that due to its close working relationship with Pembrokeshire council, officers from the Gloucestershire Constabulary had carried out both inquiries. "Gloucester Constabulary have now completed their inquiries and have confirmed that following an objective and independent analysis of the evidence, they did not find any evidence to suggest that any criminal offences had taken place," said the spokesman. "On the basis of this, Dyfed-Powys Police will be taking no further action in relation to these matters. The local authority have been advised of this decision." Payments row Since the Wales Audit Office report, Mr Parry-Jones has been under pressure to resign from his post. In July, Pembrokeshire council said it would take no further action to reclaim the money from him and another unnamed senior officer involved in a similar arrangement. He took a "leave of absence" in August, but it has since emerged that part of it coincided with his annual leave. And, earlier in October, BBC Wales reported how a severance deal to Mr Parry-Jones was being considered. A member of the council's Disciplinary Investigation Committee said they will consider the proposal for Mr Parry-Jones on 16 October. The committee, which is politically balanced, was set up following a vote of no confidence in Mr Parry-Jones in September, which saw 46 councillors against him, with three supporting him and three abstentions. The panel has the power to suspend the chief executive while alleged misconduct is investigated. Pembrokeshire council has declined to comment on the police inquiry being dropped.

A police inquiry into payments made to Pembrokeshire council's chief executive has been dropped after "no criminal offences" were found to have occurred.

