130 Capita CSG redundancies is far too many……..

This week marked a significant landmark in what has been an exceptionally stressful time for former Barnet Council staff who worked across Back Office services such as Revenues & Benefits, Customer Services, Pensions & Human Resources, and Information Services. We were informed that out of 223 Capita CSG staff who were being consulted 130 staff will be made redundant on the CSG Capita contract.

I want to take this opportunity to look back at the original proposal and see what has changed.

Having reviewed the original Capita bid it is clear there have been some changes since the Capita bid was first disclosed in November 2012.

In order to help I have provided a table which provides staffing figures for Capita CSG services.

The first set of figures are taken from the first Barnet Council report which was published in December 2012, which identified Capita as the preferred bidder. These figures represent what Capita originally proposed would be the staffing figures for services by March 2014.

The second set of figures (End of consultation) are the actual staffing figures for CSG following the redundancy consultation. Please note only the services shaded in yellow were part of the 90 day consultation which started on Monday 7 October 2013.