The former chief executive of the West Midlands Combined Authority, Laura Shoaf, resigned in June last year – with a £155,000 pay-off.
What with the money she earned working for Mayor Richard Parker and the ‘compensation for loss of office’, Ms Shoaf was paid £283,000 in the 2025-6 financial year, according to the WMCA annual report and accounts.
She was replaced by Ed Cox, who is presumably responsible for the guff in the report which, under the heading Executive Directors (no apostrophe) Office, promises:
• ‘Work and design sprints… to embed the organisation’s target operating model and relationships between strategy, corporate services and delivery functions.’
• ‘To embed a values driven culture…. A detailed action plan, structured around nine core objectives and associated subobjectives, has been developed.’
• ‘Progress will be monitored through the ongoing People & Culture Senior Leadership Team and newly established Corporate Services Group. Supported by a newly published Behaviours Framework which embeds a culture first approach within the Integrated Performance Management (IPM) Framework.‘
• ‘Our newly established leadership architecture will further support and embed the expected behaviours at every level across the organisation.’
• ‘A structured communications drumbeat is in place to ensure staff receive timely, clear, and accessible updates.’
• ‘An Organisation Design Panel has been established to provide a single, strategic lens across the organisation, offering fairness, clarity and consistency for organisation design and structural decisions.’
In promising us a ‘trailblazing authority’, Mr Cox uses the word ‘embed’ 39 times in his report so something might stick.
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