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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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Excellent. Again.
Nothing like a happy hypocrite. Despite whole-heartedly concurring with the council’s decision to do minimal work for the assessment I’m still chuffed to see that Wandsworth is an excellent council according to the Audit Commission. What has been interesting, though, since the council’s announcement are the number of people who – privately and publicly –
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Posted in Wandsworth
Also tagged assessment, CAA, Corporate Area Assessment, inspections, review
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Au revoir, box-ticking
I was surprised that the weekend announcement that Wandsworth, joined by Hammersmith and Fulham, would be limiting their involvement with the Comprehensive Area Assessment didn’t get more coverage. On reflection, it was only a surprise because of who I am and what I do. I’m a councillor, so am aware of the amount of work
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Posted in Politics, Wandsworth
Also tagged box-ticking, Comprehensive Area Assessment, Inspection
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Another lesson for Cameron from Wandsworth
I mentioned Wandsworth’s great results in the Audit Commission’s place survey in a post last week. Over the weekend a short article by the council Leader, Edward Lister, appeared on the ConservativeHome website. (I’ve included the whole article at the end of this post.) Obviously, I’m not going to disagree with his article – he’s
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Wandsworth – number one for service and value
The Audit Commission‘s place survey was published the other day and makes good reading for Wandsworth, especially as they reflect public opinion rather than the results of an external assessors checklist. Basically, it’s what you think of Wandsworth. Of course, the temptation is just to highlight what you might think are the ‘top two’: value
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Wandsworth stays number one for service and value
It was great to have confirmation that the audit commission have, once again, given Wandsworth’s services a top rating of 4* as an authority – the seventh successive year our services have been given the highest rating. It gets even better that we’re still assessed as ‘improving strongly’ and that we’ve got top marks for
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