A COUNCIL has been praised over the way it handled a programme of redundancies.
More than 100 employees left when Durham City Council shed staff because it needed to make savings and re-structure its organisation.
A report into the council's human resources department by the Best Value Inspection Service said it did a good job.
The council's sickness rate, 6.5 per cent, was the second highest in the region in 1998. The inspectors rated the service as good - two stars out of three.
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