Today was Full Council and the first agenda item was the
so-called Strategic Partnership. In the first vote, councillors voted against
the full BT outsourcing option – known to many as the “thick-JV” option. It was
rejected by 71 votes to 30.
The second proposal to be put to the vote was to keep
services “in-house.” This was lost by 50 votes to 46. The fifty councillors
were mainly Conservatives and independents, but included at least six Liberal
Democrats.
Early in the afternoon session, councillors voted to back a less
comprehensive, but still extremely significant, “thin-JV” option. This option includes ICT, document management,
telehealth and telecare, and will involve the transfer of over 300 staff into
a private company.
It is a sad day for Cornwall Council and the public sector.
For the record, all five MK councillors at the meeting (myself,
Stuart Cullimore, Loveday Jenkin, Andrew Long and Tamsin Williams) backed calls
to keep services in-house and opposed all the other options. Our sixth
councillor, Neil Plummer, was not present because he is ill with pneumonia.
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