Friday, 10 January 2025

A bit of context for Barnet's current financial mess - the £41million shortfall

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 It's been a while, but the current financial crisis in Barnet deserves some context as this mess has been 15 years in the making. I hav...
Tuesday, 18 July 2023

How covid victims' families are being ignored by Baroness Hallett and how people with disabilities were failed during the pandemic

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I haven't blogged for a while as I have been a bit unwell but I received an email yesterday from someone in Barnet who I admire immensel...
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Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Latest spending figures from Barnet and a 'blast from the past'

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 Latest supplier payments are out and as the Capita Re contract draws to an end we see how much we are still paying Capita. In February we p...
Thursday, 2 March 2023

Latest Capita Spending

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 Latest spending figures are out and the Capita contract continues to cost us a fortune. In January Capita billed an additional £3.2m on the...
Monday, 13 February 2023

Capita continuing to disappoint in the death throes of the Re Contract

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 Apologies for not having posted a blog for a couple of months but I am still monitoring Barnet and the Capita contracts. The latest spendin...
Monday, 28 November 2022

Looking back almost twelve years - the pledge I made that was never accepted

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 I was going through Barnet's supplier payments for October 2022 (£71.7 million) and I cast my mind back to January 2011. At that time t...
Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Capita still costing us a fortune

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 I was a bit worried that the supplier payments still had not been published for September 2022 so I dropped a quick email to Barnet yesterd...