Quangoland is today looking over its shoulder to see if Michael Gove or one of his colleagues is approaching them with an axe. See BBC article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10221877.stm
Blooming brilliant – the General Teaching Council for England is as good as gone, although the GTCE seem to want to fight it. Fucking Dorks.
Who next, we wonder? The General Social Care Council must be on the hit list although of course that comes under the Department of Health. Here are a list of ministers: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/Ministers/index.htm
Paul Burstow looks like the kind of man that could have an axe or three tucked up his sleeve. And then of course there are those nice people at Ofsted and indeed that utter mess Cafcass. Ofsted will not disappear but they certainly will be cut back in a way the term “cuts” has never before been used. After all with “people power” and parents running schools, who needs Ofsted inspectors.
Cafcass on the other hand would never be missed, by anyone – least of all children’s guardians and the Courts. Guardians are not needed in every case – indeed in some cases Guardians are simply an obstacle. Actually, some Guardians (like some social workers) are utter fucking Dorks and would not know one end of a child from the other – not unlike some Ofsted inspectors.
Get rid of Cafcass and a huge amount of dosh could be saved – allocate a budget to the Courts and they can determine if a Guardian is needed above and beyond a child’s solicitor. In fact, one could spot purchase the work of a Guardian in the same way as “expert” reports are purchased to address a particular set of questions. That is far more economical and will sort out the wheat from the chaff. They will live or die (professionally) on the basis of competence and not simply because the law says a Guardian must always be appointed or because have to have an overview of the complete case.
Talking of chaff, there are several more quango Wilt would add to the list, but Gove has made an excellent start. Example - the ISA.
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Indeed the loss of the GTC is excellent news and should be followed by its NI counterpart the GTCNI. There is so much wasted money to be saved by stopping these nonesense organisations that it should be akin to shooting the proverbial ducks (quangos)in a barrel.
ReplyDeleteNow it seems that more quangos are to go with the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency and Becta in Coventry being the latest for the chop. Surely this should mean that, as the cuts start to bite any political fool should be able to see that having four separate social care regulators in the UK, each with expensive management structures and properties, does not make any sense in the current climate. The regulators have spent time trying to align themselves with each other and as such it should be easy to amalgamate them into one slimmed down management structure and perhaps with some smaller regional bases for hearings etc. They don't have any need to be promoting a special case for any region -social care is social care UK wide - full stop.
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