Cardiff Council will slash expenditure on management consultants to ensure all of its staff are paid a ‘living wage' – making it the first Welsh council to sign up to such a pledge.
On 3 July, Cardiff's chiefs set out proposals to align the salaries of more than 2,000 of the authority's lowest-paid employees to a living wage of £7.20 per hour – a rate £1.12 higher than the national minimum wage. In addition to reducing consultancy spend,
