649 new Barnet Council jobs?
It sounds amazing especially when you consider:
1. The increased spend on Agency & Consultants
According to local Blogger Mr Reasonable
“In 2012/13 Comensura billed £12.5 million, In 2013/14 it rose to £13.8 million and this year, 2014/15 it has jumped again to £15.5 million.”
http://reasonablenewbarnet.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/barnet-council-where-are-savings-who.html
2. The amount of outsourcing that has taken place over the last three years where the following Council services have been transferred to another employer.
1. Your Choice Barnet
2. Housing Options
3. NSL (parking)
4. Capita CSG: Finance, HR, Payroll, Estates, Property Services, Pensions, Revenue & Benefits,
5. Capita Re: Building Control, Environmental Health, Planning, Trading Standards & Licencing
6. Legal Services
7. Registrars & Nationality Services
8. CCTV
9. Music Trust
10. Mortuary Services
3. Why the headline above?
Take a look at this report which was submitted to the Performance & Contract Monitoring Committee on 12 May 2015.
Please note the Total Established Position it states there are 3080.00 FTE
Then compare with staffing figures presented to Performance & Contract Monitoring Committee on 11 November 2014.
Please note the Total Established Position it states there are 2431.00 FTE
According to the Council’s own staffing data that means an increase of 649 FTE posts in the space on 6 months.
UNISON has been involved in a number of restructures over the last 9 months and staff have been made redundant. There are now staff at risk of redundancy working in children’s centres.
What is worrying it that we have not been informed of where these 649 jobs have been created!