and cutting costs to the bare bones...
If you award contracts on lowest price, you're not going to be getting the best calibre employees or adequate levels of supervision.
I note 7 people have been suspended but I'll bet the people who hired them, the people who managed them, and the directors they all report into won't be.
It's not often I'll agree with Burnham but he's spot on with this:
" Organisations start working to their contracts,, not looking after the child or providing the service it should be doing. This box-ticking approach will never deliver the public services we need."
It's on both sides - Supplier will perform to the contract but the YJB will only measure to the contract too. The contract management teams will think its 'job done' if the MI reporting dashboards show everything as being green. They'll be measuring G4S's performance against service level agreements that are easy to measure (and easy to penalise) rather than necessarily being service levels that ensure a good level of service. That's if the service has even been properly defined in the first place.
I've had the misfortune of working for an outsourcing company and negotiating these types of contracts and they are utterly s**te and not fit for purpose.
Posted By: CWC on January 11th 2016 at 22:13:39
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- Well that was a disturbing watch. Panorama just now (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 11, 21:18:18
- Pretty disturbing on one level and heart breaking on another. (General Chat) - revsimon, Jan 11, 22:47:10
- and making a tidy profit out of it too (n/m) (General Chat) - revsimon, Jan 12, 10:20:13
- Completely. They need compassion and rehabilitation, else G4S are just making matters far (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 12, 07:10:07
- All that matters is profit as we've seen by G4S. Nobody will be held to account. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 11, 21:26:43
- Agree about profit. But they better be held account. Illegal activity otherwise (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 12, 07:11:36
- and cutting costs to the bare bones... (General Chat) - CWC, Jan 11, 22:13:39
- and what happens to the Shareholders?? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 11, 22:16:33
- They get rich (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jan 12, 07:14:05
- and what happens to the Shareholders?? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 11, 22:16:33
- All that matters is profit as we've seen by G4S. Nobody will be held to account. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Jan 11, 21:26:13
- Pretty disturbing on one level and heart breaking on another. (General Chat) - revsimon, Jan 11, 22:47:10
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