At Barnet Council’s Adult and Safeguarding Committee meeting on 19 March 2015 councillors discussed Your Choice Barnet, part of The Barnet Group, a company owned by Barnet Council.  In addition to the councillors who were members of the committee, senior council officers were present including the Adults and Health Commissioning Director. A director of the Barnet Group, which includes Your Choice Barnet was also present. The discussion focussed

  On Tuesday night, 10 November, more than 70 people, including councillors from Enfield, Islington and Barnet and housing campaigners, gathered at the Crown Moran Hotel in Cricklewood for a public meeting with a difference. Hosted by Barnet Alliance for Public Services, Our West Hendon, and Barnet Housing Action Group, ‘Public Housing in Barnet?’ dispensed with a panel of speakers and instead invited councillors and campaigners to start

  BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW. The shortage of social and truly affordable housing is one of the most pressing problems facing our communities. Is council housing the answer to the crisis? What can councils do to tackle the housing shortage? What should Londoners expect? What’s the solution: housing associations? housing co-ops? mutuals? self-builds? Must regeneration be gentrification? Come to this open forum to discuss with other members of the

Others may give a more complete account of last night's magnificent action by West Hendon residents and their supporters.I would just like people to know that this was  a spirited display of unity and determination by quite a number of the hard-pressed and severely threatened residents - both 'secure' and 'unsecure' tenants and leaseholders, behind the OUR WEST HENDON banner + Labour candidates, members of  'Occupy' and BAPS, members of our Barnet

Apparently, Your Choice Barnet, to whom Barnet council outsourced the services for severely disabled people, is charging disabled service users VAT if they receive direct payment. Janet Leifer of CADDSS was puzzled by this and followed it up. Janet also asked who regulates the day care services and as you will see below Mr. D’Costa told her these are carried out by “our Integrated Quality in Care Homes Team.” This team is made up in part from

The legal advisers acting for resident Susan Sullivan have received a response from the Board of Your Choice Barnet agreeing, belatedly, to hold consultation with residents affected by the impact of proposed changes, which amongst other plans, involved driving out or demoting skilled staff, cutting support staffing, making up to 30% cuts in already low wages, changing terms and conditions of employment, and exposing vulnerable residents to the risk

  Janet Leifer letter  in response to Cllr. Cornelius letter to the Press. Yet to be published.   Dear Sir, I feel I must respond to the letter from Richard Cornelius concerning outsourcing of service provision and Your Choice that was published in The Press of 13 June. The Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services, CADDSS for short grew from a letter written by me and published in the local press in the Spring of 2011

Below is Tony Solomons response to the leader of the council, cllr. Richard Cornelius outrageous  letter in the Barnet and Whetstone Press which you can find a copy here. The letter is awaiting publication. From: tony solomons To: letters barnet Sent: Sunday, 16 June 2013, 20:45 Subject: Your Choice Barnet Richard Cornelius (Letters, 13 June) states that critics of Barnet's outsourcing policy should be open to challenge. He also makes reference

Barnet Residents campaign for outsourced social care services provided by Your Choice Barnet to be brought back in house. The Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services (CADDSS for short) has been set up by Barnet residents to protest against deteriorating social care provision in the London Borough of Barnet. At the moment CADDSS is focusing on the plight of severely disabled adults facing drastic changes to their social care,

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.