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Yet another council in the news for wasting the ratepayers money.  It's a scandal on a national scale.  Early retirements at enhanced rates!  Huge handouts for non-attendance, inability to attract staff due to instability, corruption and who knows what else.

Nelson Kruschandl - More council incompetance

The article below says it all.  For any council to use 400+ agency staff, rather than put in place extra permanent staff, is business madness, as the figures suggest, some 3% extra which will add directly to the rates being charged to Enfield residents.  Quite rightly, some of the residents have been complaining to the Chief Executive.  Fat lot of good that has done, or how could the cases reported keep surfacing.  It is alleged that since matters have not improved, those in control may be the problem!

These are just four extracts published by the Government Audit Commission:-

1. ........ in the story of a council employee who invented or created some 18 bogus "ghost" pensioners, then collected the money over some 2 years, to the tune of £750,00.

2. ........ 3 senior council employees set up a company, then issued the council with invoices, which they proceeded to push through the council system to final payment.  They raked in £500,000.

3. ........... a housing officer falsified records to show that friends were related to outgoing or deceases tenants of council houses.  The friends would then be able to buy the property at a substantial discount.

4. ............ a council car loan scheme found 13 officers had falsely obtained loans to the tune of £66,000. Some failed to purchase cars, others sold the cars and failed to repay the loans.

Council's should move away from the dark ages of conniving cover ups of council blunders, to a more open enlightened democratic accountability.  There are some councils where it is almost impossible to sack even the biggest twit going - there being an inner sanctum where incompetent untouchables are given a safe haven by council subterfuge.  A. J. Tanner

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