John Redwood gets it!

Further to my previous post, here is a brief extract from John Redwoods Diary Blog.

"This gives all prudent Councils plenty of chance to get on top of their budgets well before the shock of a poor grant settlement hits. As much of their cost is personnel costs, applying strict disciplines on recruitment from now could leave a good Council well placed to tackle any tight financial requirements in eighteen months time. Councils should be looking now at reducing the number of posts with Nulabour type job titles that have proliferated in the murky worlds of PPP, partnerships, strategic planning, cross cutting, networks, communications, business services and corporate services. We need to get back to simple and leaner structures, with just Heads of the main services like Education,Social Services and Highways, and Heads of Finance, Property, IT and Personnel. These Heads need to drive higher quality and efficiency throughout slimmed down structures. Using natural wastage and reorganisation should achieve a lot over eighteen months to create a better value Council without needing compulsory redundancies."

The full text is here;

http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2009/10/13/local-spending/

Thank You John!