{"id":8862,"date":"2022-12-13T18:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:32:46","slug":"breaking-news-capita-re-contract-to-be-terminated-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2022\/12\/13\/breaking-news-capita-re-contract-to-be-terminated-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Capita Re contract to be terminated early."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-1024x732.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-1536x1098.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.07.27-Why-we-need-our-Union-2048x1464.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013 Barnet Council signed two big contracts with Capita to deliver services.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday 19 July 2022, Barnet Council<\/strong> made a decision to let <strong><u>Capita Re<\/u><\/strong> (a Joint venture with Barnet Council) expire\u00a0at the end of the 10-year contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\u00a0<\/strong><strong>View Barnet Council report here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barnet.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s73533\/Review%20of%20Capita%20Contracts.pdf\">https:\/\/barnet.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s73533\/Review%20of%20Capita%20Contracts.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This meant staff working for the following services would be coming back in-house to Barnet Council on the <strong>30 September 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regulatory Services: (Environmental Health, Trading and Licensing Services, Pest Control)<\/li>\n<li>Regeneration<\/li>\n<li>Highways<\/li>\n<li>Cemetery and Crematorium<\/li>\n<li>Land Charges<\/li>\n<li>Building Control<\/li>\n<li>Planning and Development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>Breaking News<\/strong> is that Barnet Council and Capita informed all staff working on the Capita Re contract that all services will be coming back in-house on <strong>31 March 2023<\/strong> <strong><u>six months earlier than planned<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good news for staff, good news for residents and good news for the services. I welcome the decision and look forward to welcoming back all the services back into Barnet Council where they all belong.\u201d <strong>John Burgess, Branch Secretary, Barnet UNISON.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news that Barnet Council has agreed to terminate the Capita Re contract six months earlier than planned is very positive. It means that important services such as Regeneration, Highways, Planning and Development, Regulatory Services and Building Control will return to in-house provision. This is a big step forward in reducing outsourcing in Barnet and represents a failure of the Tories much maligned &#8216;Future Shape&#8217; and &#8216;Easy Council&#8217; model for local government.&#8221; <strong>Dexter Whitfield, Director, European Services Strategy Unit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>End.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note to Editors<strong>: <\/strong>Contact Barnet UNISON on or 020 8359 2088 or email: <a href=\"mailto:contactus@barnetunison.org.uk\">contactus@barnetunison.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does #Caxit mean for Barnet UNISON members working for Capita?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2022\/07\/22\/what-does-caxit-mean-for-barnet-unison-members-working-for-capita\/\">https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2022\/07\/22\/what-does-caxit-mean-for-barnet-unison-members-working-for-capita\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2013 Barnet Council signed two big contracts with Capita to deliver services. On Tuesday 19 July 2022, Barnet Council made a decision to let Capita Re (a Joint venture with Barnet Council) expire\u00a0at the end of the 10-year contract. \u00a0View Barnet Council report here https:\/\/barnet.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s73533\/Review%20of%20Capita%20Contracts.pdf This meant staff working for the following services would be coming back in-house<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,48,59,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-news","category-solidarity","category-unison-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}