I had come to the conclusion that there was little point in continuing with the
reports from Barnet, Newham, Bexley and oneSource about senior Council staff who
failed in one borough only to be rewarded with a promotion to another
sometimes via allegedly dubious recruitment processes. If anyone is interested
they must have got the message by now. However maybe this
small extract from an email from within oneSource ought not to be ignored.
“Under Paul’s signature Bexley signed up to Finance services from oneSource and
now under Paul’s signature Bexley are leaving oneSource and the ‘punishment payment’ will be £600,000.”
The same correspondent refers to a name new to me formerly in oneSource but listed on Bexley’s ‘Senior
Manager’s Structure Chart’ who discovered that one of his staff had been dismissed from a
Home Office job for lying in Court (documentary proof provided) and emailed all his staff to forbid them from
talking about it. Nothing surprises me about Local Government Management but
without the email as proof that story is probably a dead end.
With so many people telling similar tales the likelihood must be that there is
some truth in them but whatever the case there must be a lot
of very unhappy people working for Bexley Council anxious to vent their frustration.