Twenty seven posts are to be axed from the civil registration part of the General Register Office in Southport, due to an apparent fall in demand for vital records certificates.
A GRO spokesman is quoted in the Southport Visitor as stating "“We are committed to providing more value for money to the taxpayer at a time of falling demand for life events certificates. We have proposals to launch a voluntary early release programme and will do everything we can to avoid compulsory redundancies.”
The full story is at http://tinyurl.com/d86f7kb
Many thanks to Peter Calver at Lost Cousins for contacting me about this - he has been tracking the GRO's performance following the rise in certificate prices and only this week had cited what he termed as a 'fiasco' in his latest newsletter, which can be viewed at www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/dec11news.htm
Chris
Another bad management decision at the GRO. Perhaps they should move it to Scotland!
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