REJECT the Council accommodation review! STOP the move to Colindale! NO to the £50million squander!   Tory Barnet councillors and Capita are planning to move the council offices from the North London Business Park and Barnet House into a new purpose built accommodation in Colindale.   This will cost Barnet residents  £50 million and no savings are expected for 50 years while Capita, it is believed, will receive a 14% fee!  

  WHO RUNS THIS SCHOOL?   Although The Government 'U turned' on Forced Academies across the country, there is still the threat of forced academisation on local areas. If half of the schools of Barnet become academies, then the other half will be FORCED against our wishes, to become academies too.   A quarter of the schools in the Borough of Barnet are Academies as of May 2016. What is an Academy? An Academy school is directly funded

  In light of the recent chaos in Barnet Council, and on the eve of a new wave of outsourcing despite the long catalogue of failures in the services already outsourced, please will join us before the council's Annual General Meeting to protest about the collapse of council services and the vanishing democracy in Barnet since the implementation of the One Barnet Programme of Privatisation. Here are just some of the reasons to protest: The 5th

We're approaching the end of our time to make an impact on the Tory councillors before they vote on the library proposals. The linked report, titled What Councillors Weren't Told, has clear, factual information of how councillors have been deliberately uninformed or misled. Please use it in e-mailing your Tory councillors, asking them to represent their constituents (rather than their party) by voting against the proposals. If any of the following

Dear Library Lovers On Wednesday night the Tory councillors on the CELS committee recommended their changes to our library system to be accepted, subject to a vote in full council on 4 April. The plan promises disaster for our libraries and, therefore, for us. Dan Thomas, almost bouncing in his seat as he brayed about how wonderful the new plan is, did not question its substance or its many omissions; he simply asked for one element – which is

Dear Library Lover By now you may have heard that the library IT system has gone down and there may have been a catastrophic loss of data. (As part of the subcontracting of virtually all Barnet services, this IT system is managed by Capita.) We understand that they may have lost up to two years of data, and visitors to the library who ask for their cards to be checked have been told that the system will be down till April at least. Library workers

Barnet campaign group Save Barnet Libraries (SBL) has taken the first step in legal action to challenge the errors in the Council’s current consultation by sending a ‘letter before claim’ to Barnet Council earlier this week. ‘They’re keeping the buildings open but reducing the service so severely there’ll be almost nothing left. The consultation is much more limited than last year’s and it doesn’t even say what hours my library will

  Under TTIP when procuring goods or services, local governments would have to submit tenders across the EU & the USA. Very likely is that multi-national companies would win the tenders. Local companies would simply not get a look-in, nor the administrative resources challenge the big companies. Bad for the local economy and local employment. ·        TTIP negotiations are carried out in secret. ·        There has been no

  Barnet Council is considering a future operating model for Adult Social Care with the aim of reducing demand for Council funded Adult Social Care Services. People will be expected to rely more on family, friends and community resources. Barnet Council is also considering changes to its Children’s Services that would be run by a not-for-profit organisation as an alternative to keeping the service in-house. Elderly people will be encouraged

Dear Library Lover Barnet Council have released their final consultation to allow you to give your views on the final proposals for our library. A reminder that for East Finchley this means: Reduction from 40 staffed hours per week to 16 Unstaffed opening will be introduced which makes the library inaccessible to unaccompanied young people and vulnerable users. Floorspace will be reduced from 5081 sq ft to 2153 sq ft The document is available here: