Monthly Archives: November 2012

STOP PRESS: Protest outside town hall (Thursday 29 Nov)

STOP THE SELL OFF! DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE HENDON TOWN HALL Assemble from 6pm, THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER  Assemble outside Hendon Town Hall from 6 pm; please wear something orange (if you can) as a symbol of our campaign, then join us in the public gallery for a silent lobby during the committee meeting. At 7 pm there will be a meeting of the Budget and Performance Overview & Scrutiny committee meeting, in which councillors of all parties will

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Proposal to award NSCSO contract to Capita - urgent email action from BAPS

Urgent email action - stop the proposal to award NSCSO contract to Capita Senior officers of Barnet Council are recommending that a contract to run Barnet's New Support and Customer Services Organisation be awarded to Capita. The bad effects of this include, minimally, the loss of 200 jobs at Barnet council, and Barnet residents' interactions with the council being handled by a call centre a long way from Barnet. We now need your full support in

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Help John save Barnet

Barnet Alliance is rallying to support concerned local resident John Sullivan, who has taken the decision to instruct lawyers to seek a Judicial Review of the One Barnet Programme on behalf of his daughter Susan. He is concerned that the privatisation of services will cause deterioration in their quality as well as financial implications in case of a failure, which will affect all services across the board and all Barnet residents, among them Susan.

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Urgent email action to Barnet Council decision-makers
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With just days to go until Barnet Council Cabinet are due to decide on who to award a £750m contract - BT or Capita - we are asking Barnet residents to email councillors in the ruling Conservative group to ask them to think again. We are suggesting the text below, but please send whatever message you want to send. You can automatically send the message below to the members of the Cabinet by using the URGENT EMAIL ACTION button (see right). Suggested

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Join us in Parliament! Monday 19 November

Barnet Alliance for Public Services will be taking the #OurBarnet camapaign to Parliament on Monday 19 November to show campaign films and for a panel discussion on Barnet Council's 'One Barnet' programme. Please join us as we take our fight for Barnet to the house!  Monday 19 November, Palace of Westminster, Committee Room 12 Go to Cromwell Green entrance and quote "Billion Pound Gamble Film Showing" 6.30 pm for a 7 pm start Brief introduction

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Our Barnet Film!

The case against Barnet's mass privitisation programme goes viral with our new online video kindly supported by community donations and Barnet TUC.

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