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 "nation": "scotland",
 "financial_year": "2024/25",
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "K Lawrie",
   "title": "Chief Executive",
   "salary": 166528,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 32473,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Plus £2,035 election duty payments ('Other Amounts', reimbursed by government) and £391 pension contribution as Returning Officer. No bonuses, taxable expenses or non-cash benefits paid to any senior employee.",
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   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Kenneth Lawrie",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: 'Kenneth Lawrie, Chief Executive of Falkirk Council' signs the Annual Governance Statement of the 2024/25 Audited Annual Accounts, the document containing this officers-table disclosure; also named on the council's management structure page.",
    "sources": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf; https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/councillors-and-decision-making/council-management-structure"
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  {
   "name": "K Algie",
   "title": "Director of Transformation, Communities and Corporate Services; Acting Director of Children's Services to 12/05/24",
   "salary": 133338,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 25453,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Plus £166 election duty payments.",
   "council": "Falkirk",
   "source_url": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf",
   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Karen Algie",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: Falkirk Council's management structure page names Karen Algie as Director of Transformation, Communities and Corporate Services; Public Sector Executive (June 2022) reported her appointment.",
    "sources": "https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/councillors-and-decision-making/council-management-structure; https://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/falkirk-council-appoint-new-director-transformation-communities-and-corporate-services"
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  {
   "name": "M Bennie",
   "title": "Director of Place Services",
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   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 25453,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Plus £504 election duty payments.",
   "council": "Falkirk",
   "source_url": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf",
   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Malcolm Bennie",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: Falkirk Council's management structure page names Malcolm Bennie as Director of Place Services; Falkirk Herald (6 Dec 2021) announced his appointment to the new directorate from January 2022.",
    "sources": "https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/councillors-and-decision-making/council-management-structure; https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/politics/council/changes-at-the-top-for-falkirk-council-3483334"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "J Reid",
   "title": "Director of Children's Services (from 13/05/24)",
   "salary": 115463,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 22510,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Part year; full-year equivalent £130,526. Plus £270 election duty payments.",
   "council": "Falkirk",
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   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Jon Reid",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: Falkirk Council's own announcement 'Jon Reid appointed Director of Education' (aid=7714, archived) and the current management structure page listing Jon Reid as Director of Education Services; the accounts style the post Director of Children's Services.",
    "sources": "https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/news/article.aspx?aid=7714; https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/news/article.aspx?aid=7714; https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/councillors-and-decision-making/council-management-structure"
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "A Templeman",
   "title": "Chief Finance Officer (Section 95 Officer)",
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   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 22217,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": null,
   "council": "Falkirk",
   "source_url": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf",
   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Amanda Templeman",
    "confidence": "record",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: 'Amanda Templeman, CPFA, Chief Finance Officer' signs the Statement of Responsibilities and Balance Sheet of the 2024/25 Audited Annual Accounts, the document containing this officers-table disclosure.",
    "sources": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf"
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  {
   "name": "S Lacey",
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   "salary": 106933,
   "salary_band": null,
   "is_band": 0,
   "pension": 22217,
   "benefits": 0,
   "notes": "Full-year cost £113,932. Plus £245 election duty payments.",
   "council": "Falkirk",
   "source_url": "https://fcwebsites.blob.core.windows.net/www/media/7b86900a-54f0-43a7-bbab-5cd6e596492b/2024-2025-Audited-Annual-Accounts.pdf",
   "source_title": "Falkirk Council Audited Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25",
   "financial_year": "2024/25",
   "ident": {
    "full_name": "Sara Lacey",
    "confidence": "corroborated",
    "basis": "Same evidence as the senior_pay entry: Social Work Scotland's CSWO contact list (Jan 2025) lists Sara Lacey (sara.lacey@falkirk.gov.uk) as Falkirk's CSWO; Falkirk Herald (7 Jun 2023) names 'Sara Lacey, Falkirk's chief social work officer'.",
    "sources": "https://socialworkscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CSWO-Contact-List-2025-Updated-Jan-2025-1.pdf; https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/politics/council/falkirk-council-higher-salaries-in-bid-to-retain-and-recruit-more-social-workers-4173656"
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 "notes": "Null means not disclosed, never zero. In pay_bands_by_year, 'nominal' counts staff above a fixed cash threshold and 'real' counts staff above the CPI-equivalent of that threshold in the first recorded year. Officer 'ident' is the full name behind disclosed initials, with its basis. See /methodology/."
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