To understand why Your Choice Barnet Care Workers are taking strike action

Read our flyer here

UNISON members working for Your Choice Barnet (YCB) have just announced their next strike dates as being 22^nd and 23^rd January. In addition the workers will be attending an event in the House of Commons 28^th January highlighting the conditions for workers in this sector (see link below). This will make a total of 6 days of strike action since the dispute began.

This is in a bid to reverse the harsh 9.5% pay cut imposed on them by their employer.

To understand how this dispute can be resolved view 9 Point Flyer click here

Barnet UNISON has organised Social Care Workers Commission on 28 January 2015 at 6.30, Committee Room 10, House Of Commons.

To view flyer click here

To view full report click here

Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee 28 October 2014 Libraries Strategy report made the following recomendation within this report here

Barnet UNISON response to Barnet Council Library Strategy can found here

Barnet UNISON Service Improvement Plan

5 January 2015.

“A best value authority must make arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the way in which its functions are exercised, having regard to a combination of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness.”

(s3(1) Local Government Act 1999)

The parts of the Duty can be summarised

as:

i. Continuous improvement in functions

ii. Having regard to a combination of:

a. Economic value

b. Efficiency

c. Effectiveness

The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 also places obligations on local authorities in England and Wales to consider how to improve social, economic and environmental well-being.

However, it does not change the Duty, it simply adds to it.

The new statutory guidance for England talks about social value in terms of procuring or commissioning goods and services, perhaps deliberately overlooking in-house service provision.

“…authorities should consider overall value, including economic, environmental and social value, when reviewing service provision. As a concept, social value is about seeking to maximise the additional benefit that can be created by procuring or commissioning goods and services, above and beyond the benefit of merely the goods and services themselves.” (Best Value Statutory Guidance (Sept 2011) [I don’t understand how this quote exemplifies the paragraph preceding it]

 

Barnet UNISON argues that social value should also be considered when looking at in-house services.

To view service improvement plan click here