Capita
Nearly
ten years ago Barnet Council outsourced pretty much all of their services to
Capita and the local blogging fraternity has been complaining about it ever since. Around a
year ago Barnet Council services collapsed in a stinking heap, literally in some places.
A week ago Bexley Council issued a Press Release to say they had entered an
eight year contract with Capita, more limited than Barnet’s, which they claim
will result in a saving of £1 million a year. One must hope it is more
successful than their recently abandoned
big contract with Amey.
Usually BiB keeps a copy of Bexley Council’s Press Releases but recently they
have been so poorly produced that they do not lend themselves to easy conversion to PDF
so that one has been given a miss.
Food bins
Another
Press Release was issued yesterday which was once again a bit of a
techno-mess but perseverance paid off and
a PDF version was eventually produced.
It says you may order a better food recycling box.
The Press Release gives details of the delayed issue of new wheelie bins too.
The last Press Release I saw that was done properly was issued by Lynne McVicar two weeks ago.
Another warning not to misuse Blue Badges.
Paul Moore
I found out a little bit more about
Paul Moore who has so often stood in for an absent Chief Executive.
He is definitely away for some reason or other. Not just ordinarily away it
would appear because a replacement has been dragged in from another borough. It
doesn’t sound like a holiday and one must hope his health is in good shape.
The replacement is another of those rent a pen-pusher types who have worked just
about everywhere. In this case Wirral, Bristol, Plymouth, Havering and perhaps
significantly Newham, the new Chief Executive’s old stomping ground. A local
authority so efficient that it claims to need 20% more Councillors. Maybe they
are trying to maintain the London average number of Council brain cells. They
have recently been persuaded that a 10% increase may suffice.
I’d rather back a public servant who stays in one place and is loyal to those
who pay his wages more than his own pay packet.
The loon is back
The lunatic who wrote
the diatribe reproduced here two days ago came back overnight.
This time she claims she has enough on me to put me in jail and “we have reported you”.
Her deranged mind says I work in IT for a Local Authority, if so I don’t think I
would last long. I decided to amend the Contact page so that it demanded a
verified email address but I made a total mess of it and now it doesn’t work at
all. So much for my IT skills!
Temporarily it is disabled totally until I find a better way of doing things.
For the desperate the Contact form used to send messages to enquiry at
bexley-is-bonkers
dot co dot uk.