{"id":352,"date":"2010-08-05T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:42:12","slug":"future-shape-adult-social-care-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2010\/08\/05\/future-shape-adult-social-care-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Shape – Adult Social Care – Flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Future Shape Social Care \u2013 flawed <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The Barnet Future Shape programme is embarking on a policy of mass privatisation. The Council employed consultants two years ago to look at the future of Public Services; the programme was called Future Shape. Two years on and with a national media profile, future shape now known as easyCouncil has finally revealed its true purpose….. A \u2018Commissioning Council\u2019<\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Did Barnet really need to spend \u00a32.5million taxpayer\u2019s money to come up with an ideology from the 80’s i.e. Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT)? <\/span><\/p>\n

This was Thatcher\u2019s lowest-bid compulsory competitive tendering and her environment minister Nicholas Ridley\u2019s vision of \u2018enabling\u2019 councils, which would meet just once a year to hand out the contracts to multinationals. Despite what anyone says it is the multinationals that are going to benefit at the expense of the customer and the tax payer!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

A number of Future Shape projects are taking place. Members will be aware that the Trade Unions have registered complaints with our Employers about the secrecy in which the Option Appraisals are being carried out.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first Project in Adult Social Services has been shrouded in secrecy; the Trade Unions with the support of Professor Dexter Whitfield have produced a report outlining serious flaws in the Adult Social Care Options Appraisal. <\/span><\/p>\n

To read the Full report click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Future Shape Social Care \u2013 flawed The Barnet Future Shape programme is embarking on a policy of mass privatisation. The Council employed consultants two years ago to look at the future of Public Services; the programme was called Future Shape. Two years on and with a national media profile, future shape now known as easyCouncil has finally revealed its true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}