Revelations over executive pay will rankle in wake of cuts to supports

At a time of savage cutbacks to disability services, disclosures over the scale of pay for senior managers in voluntary bodies will rankle most of all with families of children who have lost vital supports. Most damaging of all are reports that senior managers’ publicly funded salaries have been supplemented in some cases by other income, such as fundraising and retail income. In many cases, hard-pressed families themselves are fundraising to support crucial services for their children.This is because thousands of children with developmental delays and behavioural issues...