John van de Laarschott
Stoke-on-Trent Overview & Scrutiny Committee Re-Affirm Cabinet Decision To Bring Vanguard.
07 Jun 2010
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Transformation & Resources Overview & Scrutiny Committee have today [Monday] re-affirmed the Cabinets decision to endorse the overall approach to deliver transformational change. The cabinet had also approved the appointment of Vanguard Consultants to deliver a programme of planned service interventions based on the ‘lean thinking’ methodology. It was appointment of Vanguard and the lack of a procurement and tendering process that prompted the call in by the
On Thursday the City of Stoke-on-Trent turned to the Labour Party big time. Many people were predicting Labour losses as a result of the poll performances of the Labour Government. This did not turn out to be the case however as the party locally made 12 gains. This has got the politicians thinking on the run up to the Annual Meeting on 27th May. With 26 seats, the Labour Party could well be thinking about making a play for the leadership.
David Cameron writes today in the Guardian that Public sector chiefs earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year would have their salaries cut back by a Conservative government under a radical scheme to link their earnings to the lowest-paid workers in their organisation. The Leader of the Tories suggests a difference of 20 times between the highest and lowest paid worker in the public sector
I write this current piece with some anger and disgust. Yet I should not be surprised. I did not intend on writing a piece on this matter – but here goes anyway having just been told about Laarschot’s sarcastic dig at some absent councillors at Wednesday's freebie celebration of 100 years of the Federation of Stoke-on-Trent.
AUDIO WITH JVDL & BRIAN WARD NOW ONLINE! The Cabinet of Stoke-on-Trent City Council today accepted Chief Executive John van de Laarschott's recommendation to cease work towards the Strategic Partnership The partnership would have seen to transferal of up to 900 council staff to a private company that would have been situated in the proposed new Business District in Hanley.
Big question marks now hang over the future of the NSRP, its board and its management as the “Strategic Partnership”, the anchor tenant in the proposed business quarter, falls apart.
Strategic Partnership Ended Before It's Begun.
05 Mar 2010
Pits n Pots can today confirm that Stoke-on-Trent City Council plans to switch up to 800 jobs to the proposed Central Business District in Hanley have been scrapped. The City Council had proposed to switch the jobs to a private company. The preferred bidders were Balfour Beatty Workplace/BT Global Solutions and Serco who are still fighting for the contract. The jobs would have included members of the Human Resources, CCTV maintenance, IT and Administration departments.
Staffordshire Police have today confirmed that they are investigating the procurement process and in particular the tenders for demolition contracts. In a statement Staffordshire Police said: Quote:We can confirm that Staffordshire Police is carrying out enquiries into a number of complaints linked to tendering processes for demolition work. We are working very closely with the Chief Executive of the City Council in this matter. On behalf of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Chief Executive, John van
Here is the latest offering in our 'In Conversation' pieces. Today we managed to catch half an hour out of a very busy day in the life of Stoke-on-Trent's new Chief Executive John Van de Laarschott. As you will be aware if you read this site, I have been very impressed with John.
One of the most interesting topics on Thursday's full council meeting was the motion tabled By Cllr Dave Conway. The motion had called for the following: “That this Council resolves that an inquiry be established into the conduct of the internal investigation of the proposed closure of the splash pool at Dimensions Leisure Centre, Burslem, with the following remit: ·Ensuring that all elected members have been, and will in future be, treated fairly and properly in relation to this and similar ma
