Background:

In the past three years the following 10 former council services have been outsourced to another provider:

1. Your Choice Barnet

2. Housing Options

3. NSL (parking)

4. Capita CSG: Finance, HR, Payroll, Estates, Property Services, Pensions, Revenue & Benefits,

5. Capita Re: Building Control, Environmental Health, Planning, Trading Standards & Licencing

6. Legal Services

7. Registrars & Nationality Services

8. CCTV

9. Music Trust

10. Mortuary Services

Outsourcing the rest of the Council

What Council workers and residents are facing in Barnet is an ideological war on public services. Barnet the ‘Commissioning Council’ is being promoted as the answer to austerity not just in Barnet but across the whole of the public sector. The commissioning agenda is being driven by consultants and their friends in the public sector, who secure contracts to outsource services. They have no interest in service delivery which inevitably leads to greater inequality both in the workforce & the community we serve.

Outsourcing Timetable

1. The future of the Library Services will be decided on Monday 12 October, Children’s, Education, Libraries & Safeguarding Committee.

2.The future of Adults and Communities will be decided on Thursday 12 November Adults and Safeguarding Committee. 

3. The future of the Education & Skills and School Meals will be decided on Wednesday 18 November at the Children’s, Education, Libraries & Safeguarding Committee. 

4. The future of our Children’s Centres will be decided on Wednesday 18 November 2015 Children’s, Education, Libraries & Safeguarding Committee. 

5. The future of Street Scene Services will be decided on Monday 11 January 2016 at the Environment Committee.

Read our latest newspaper Barnet VOICE here http://www.barnetunison.me.uk/sites/default/files/Barnet%20Voice.pdf 

Our last strike was 8 July the day Osborne announce his destructive budget. Jeremy Corbyn a long-time supporter of our branch joined us on the picket lines here https://www.flickr.com/photos/28819825@N02/

Fightback – You can help

There is still time to change these proposals. Please sign the petition, but also please share it with your friends, work colleagues on Twitter, and Facebook.