Chief executive, and the authority's highest-ranking non-elected decision maker, Harry Catherall is understood to have been headhunted to help bail out the authority's crisis-ridden neighbours at Tameside council.
Tameside's leadership collapsed after a damning report to the government on the state of its children's services prompted a slew of resignations. A commissioner found the authority doesn't have the 'capacity or capability' to improve the department 'without oversight and support'.
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