Join us at 7 pm in Hendon Town Hall to submit close to 1000 signatures of residents calling the Cabinet to bring Your Choice Barnet, services for adults with learning and other disabilities, back in-house. At that Cabinet meeting the Task & Finish Group's report about Your Choice Barnet will be submitted. The outsourced local authority trading company that provides day services and residential care for Barnet residents with learning and complex

If you want to get a flavour of one of the most enraging and frustrating council committees' meetings that active residents from CADDSS (the Campaign Against Destruction of Disabled Support Services) and BAPS, along with other disabled residents who use Your Choice services and their family carers had to endure – read Mrs Angry's Broken Barnet blog.         It was so frustrating because it became clearer than ever that Barnet's

We do! In September 2011 Barnet Council decided to award Home Care contracts to three private contractors Enara; Personnel and Care Bank; London Care Plc To view the full report from 2011 click here   Incredibly, two years later Barnet Council has instructed social workers not to refer new clients to two out of these three contractors. Why have they issued this instruction to staff? What level of due diligence took place when the decision was

‘Your Choice Barnet Ltd (YCB) began operating as a Local Authority Trading Company (LATC) in February 2012. Within months it incurred operating losses and failed to attract new service users and revenue. Analysis of Consultation Paper Your Choice Barnet Ltd Prof Dexter Whitfield's report (commissioned by CADDSS) 'Your Choice Barnet Ltd (YCB) began operating as a Local Authority Trading Company (LATC) in February 2012. Within months it incurred

14 June 2013: An urgent message from John Sullivan: “I have instructed Irwin Mitchell solicitors on behalf of my daughter to challenge Your Choice Barnet’s consultation process and decision (if the decision today was to implement the proposals). Irwin Mitchell have sent a letter before action to Your Choice Barnet and await a response on Monday 17 June. If the challenge is successful it may result in staff members being able to stay in their

BARNET ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC SERVICES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING  Monday 1st July, 7 pm Greek Cypriot Centre Britannia Road N12 9RU This will be an opportunity to join BAPS as a member or renew the membership and contribute to the community campaign to defend and improve public services in Barnet. The business part of the AGM will be followed by a talk by Gerald Shamash Maria Nash's solicitor in her Judicial Review: 'One Barnet' Council On Trial Refreshments

Barnet Alliance for Public Services is shocked and enraged by the racist attack on the Somali Bravanese community centre in Muswell Hill. We will not tolerate any racism in our community and we will not stand by when such attacks threaten our fellow residents, our neighbours and friends. BAPS will join in the community vigil against islamophobia and racism held at the site of the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association. We are calling on our supporters

  Following the community's successful campaign to Save Friern Barnet Library which Barnet Alliance had actively supported, the library is now a People's Library - Friern Barnet Community Library (FBCL). Run by a board of trustees it is alive and kicking as ever, a true community centre. Check out their website, and their next events: Live and Loud At The Library-18 May 2013, FBCL - 18 May 2013 FRIERN BARNET WALK 19 May 2013, 12.30 Matthew

Around 50 people met at the Greek Cypriot Centre on 11th April 2013 to launch a campaign calling on Barnet Council to bring 'Your Choice Barnet' back in-house. 'Your Choice Barnet' (YCB) delivers care and support services to disabled adults in Barnet and has been 'arms length' from the Council since February 2012. The Council hoped that the service would make a surplus - £263,000 by 2015 and £493,000 by 2016 - but instead it has been losing money.

Please use the text below or adapt it and send your own message to Barnet Council's Cabinet members, supporting the call to bring 'Your Choice Barnet' back in-house. You can send a message automatically using the button on the right of this page. And please also sign the petition on Barnet Council's website.   Bring Your Choice Barnet back in-house! Dear Councillor, Your Choice Barnet, that provides services for adults with learning and physical