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Kick out Capita!
Join the lobby of the P&R committee
Monday 17 June, 6pm
Hendon Town Hall
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Following the scandals of the £2million fraud, a report was commissioned by the council (the Grant Thornton report). This report found that there were “significant financial control weaknesses…“poor accounting controls”. There are also other scandals such as of the overspend on the Capita contract by £145.9 million and the excessive and expensive use of agency staff. All this leads to continuously deteriorating services and the waste of public money.
John McDonnell Shadow Chancellor said: “The Grant Thornton (GT) review of the two Capita contracts in Barnet provides yet more evidence of the folly of privatisation of public services. When I read “significant financial control weaknesses…“poor accounting controls” in the GT review it summed up what I have been saying about the current Tory government.
External Auditors in May also reported that Capita “don’t have a particularly strong control environment”, the auditor reported, and then stated that Capita were “not minded” to provide assurance over systems running processes on Barnet Council’s behalf.
As a result of all these indictments, Barnet's P&R committee agreed to review the Capita contract including the option of bringing back services in-house. Despite the failure of the contract with Capita, The report for the P&R committee meeting on 17 June accepts the current relationship with Capita and accepts that there is no alternative but to carry on with a failing contract. It is Barnet residents, and council staff, that will continue to suffer as a result of the Tories' illusion that privatisation works. In Barnet, the evidence of the Capita contract shows that it does not.
For a full analysis of the report to the committee and of the Capita contracts so far, read Mr Reasonable's latest blog here.
Kick out Capita!
Join the lobby of the P&R committee
Monday 17 June, 6pm, Hendon Town Hall
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Sick to death of potholes in Barnet?
Join us for photo exhibition of potholes prior to the Policy & Resources committee meeting
Monday 17 June, 6 pm
Hendon Town Hall
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Capita are responsible for our roads in Barnet and they are really bad! That’s why we want #BarnetCouncil to #KickOutCapita and bring Highways & Regeneration services back in-house.
On Monday #17June2019, seven Tory councillors at the Policy and Resources Committee will decide whether to dump #Capita and bring those services back in-house.
Watch this brilliant video and share widely to help us #KickOutCapita
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