When new Leader Ken Maddock interviews Jonesy later on today, we hope he will make one thing, above all others, absolutely clear.
There must be no more bullying at SCC. No bullying of staff, and certainly no bullying of Councillors.
You see, the recently consulted electorate has a right to expect its representatives to ask questions of senior managers - however “unhelpful” such questions are considered to be.
We also have a right to expect that our representatives can ask questions without fear of incurring a trawl of the thousands of SCC employees to see whether they might have ever said, done or thought anything that anyone could possibly consider to be inappropriate, unhelpful, rude, exasperated, or downright despairing.
Not many people on God's Earth could survive such a trawl unscathed, and unless Ken gets this straight right from the start, then we really did waste our time at the booths on Thursday.
Thanks Ken!
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April 30th 2009 Richard Crouch:
"Over 1,300 staff seconded and a deal worth £650 million over 10 years".
So Albert @ D&D...Does £650m = £400m = SCC + TDBC...+ £185M Av & Som Police.....suddenly another £65m of cost?
1st slide from Powerpoint slides from Mogg the Blog posting 12 June
http://www.ppmaconference.co.uk/docs/seminars/Masterclass%20-%20%20HR%20Transformation%20the%20Shared%20Services%20Phenomenon.ppt
Do you think this might be the IBM management fee for taking on the staff into SW1 - £6.5m x 10 years? And then they give us back £1.7m every year (from our money).
Last summer, it was alleged by Ken Maddocks that SCC had gone for the most expensive contract bid and this same £65m figure was mentioned. Then the spin machine started up and they claimed this was an asessment score wrongly marked as £Ms.
Come on Ken: Ask for the books and get that forensic accountant back in.
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