Barnet Alliance for Public Services is delighted to hear that Maria Nash, a Barnet resident who has instructed lawyers to seek a Judicial Review of the One Barnet Programme, has now been granted funding through Legal Aid. Lawyers for Barnet Council responded late Thursday night to a pre-action protocol letter that was sent to the Council by Maria's lawyers on 6 December, prior to the Cabinet meeting that approved the appointment of Capita plc as

Dear Richard Cornelius,  Until this afternoon I was taking a modest interest in the One Barnet programme, and was prepared to believe that you people were acting not altogether unreasonably and in good faith. However I have now changed my mind. I realised only a few hours ago that the company to whom you are proposing to hand a £1 billion contract is the same company that made the most outrageous mess over the £48 million contract handed to them

People versus privatisation: Capita’s one takeover With an extensive track record of business malpractice and blunders, most firms would not expect to win public service contracts. Yet Barnet Council is signing its future to one such corporation: Capita. Barnet Council has decided to privatise 70% of its services, under the branding One Barnet. The council has done this with no electoral mandate. Beyond this defiance of democracy, it threatens

Demonstration Come and meet Capita! Thursday 20th December 5-6pm, 71 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0XA   On Thursday 20 December, residents from the London Borough of Barnet will visit the HQ of outsourcing giant Capita to talk to them about their proposed takeover of our council services. We have asked to meet Capita CEO Paul Pindar, whose company has won the bid for a contract worth £320-750 million with Barnet Council, as part of Barnet

Pre-Action Letter - Proposed Claim for Judicial Review was served on Barnet council. A Barnet resident, Maria Nash, has instructed lawyers to seek Judicial Review of the One Barnet Programme.   A pre-action protocol letter was sent to the Council today, prior to the Cabinet meeting tonight which plans to approve the appointment of Capita plc as preferred bidder for the first of the One Barnet contracts, worth £320 million. The letter details the

Community support for Friern Barnet Library Dear friend, Ahead of the court hearing on 17th December 2012, at which Barnet Council will apply for a possession order to end the occupation at Friern Barnet Library, we have collected signatures - campaign, organisation and individual - to the statement below. We are issuing this so that Barnet Council can be made aware of just some of the people and groups that oppose their action, and in order to give

Join us on our next trip to a Barnet Council meeting to take part in public question time and scrutinise: Monday 17 December - from 7pm, Hendon Town Hall, The Burroughs, London NW4, for the Cabinet meeting. Agenda includes cuts to Council Tax benefit. Official papers available here: http://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=120&MId=6750. Followed by the Cabinet Resources Committee, same venuem at 8pm. Official papers available here:

Barnet Alliance is raising money for concerned local residents who have taken the decision to instruct lawyers to seek a Judicial Review of the One Barnet programme. We will be holding an Auction of Promises as a fundraiser towards this cause.  An Auction of Promises is where people make a promise to donate their time, skill or an experience.  Bidders then bid to win the items which will be listed and circulated in a flier, and the highest bidder

From: Public Interest Lawyers Press Release – 7 DECEMBER 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Interest Lawyers, acting on behalf of Susan Sullivan, a concerned Barnet resident, has today notified Barnet Council (at 9.39am) of her intention to seek judicial review of the “One Barnet programme”. The pre-action protocol letter sets out her claim against the Council. She alleges that the Council is acting unlawfully, both as to the process it has

Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) took over a cabinet meeting on Thursday 6 December. At the same time Barnet Council Cabinet decided to approve an outsourcing contract for a New Support and Customer Services Organisation (NSCSO) with Capita, worth at least £320 million. Barnet Alliance coordinator Tirza Waisel explains:  “Under the One Barnet programme most of Barnet residents’ services will transfer to outsourcing giants such as