The Centre provided assistance to the ICT Staff Employment Model Team between December 2004 and April 2005 who were assessing three employment options in the outsourcing of ICT services. Despite the staff making a strong case for a secondment/mixed economy model, the City Council decided to opt for full outsourcing.
Month: April 2005
Building Schools for the Future campaign leaflets
The Centre prepared three leaflets for the Council and Teacher Trade Unions in Tyne and Wear: What Price New Schools, Local Control Threat and Building Schools for the Future Charter. The Centre prepared three leaflets for the Council and Teacher Trade Unions in Tyne and Wear:
Strategic Partnership in Crisis
An investigation of the performance of the Strategic Service-Delivery Partnership between HBS Business Services Group and Bedfordshire County Council. Bedfordshire County Council agreed a £267m Strategic Service-Delivery Partnership with HBS Business Services Group in June 2001 and transferred 550 staff to HBS.
Bedfordshire UNISON commissioned the Centre to undertake an evaluation of the Strategic Partnership. The study revealed that the partnership was in crisis and had failed to deliver improvements in the quality of services, the software system for schools failed to be implemented, a promised National Centre of Excellence in Education and a Bedfordshire Regional Business Centre and new jobs. The Centre examined County Council and partnership documents and interviewed several County Council and HBS staff.