Plans to send wardens out to combat anti-social behaviour across Newcastle have suffered a setback, with council bosses struggling to recruit people for the jobs.
Newcastle City Council has pledged to send staff out into communities across the city to patrol trouble hotspots, as part of a £1.5m investment. But civic centre officials say they are now trying to make the job “more exciting” for people and offer a higher salary, having been forced to re-advertise for the posts this month.
Coun Lesley Storey, the council’s cabinet member responsible for community safety, told colleagues that she had hoped the wardens would have been in place by now but that the council was relaunching the job offer and “looking at things we can do to make that post more exciting to people”.
