Wednesday, January 25, 2006

TWO STAR HELP FOR A TWO STAR COUNCIL

Members were advised today that the Council is to get advice and support from the Chief Exec of Tory Northants County Council, which the Leader lauded as an example of help from the local government family. I checked out this council on the Audit Commission site and found that like the IW it is a two-star authority, judged to be improving 'well' rather than the IW's 'adequately'. A cursory glance at other authorities they could have approached turned up quite a few four star authorities in the south of England. Why not approach them for help rather than Northants ?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And apparently, it is a reciprocal arrangement; which presumably means that the Isle of Wight will be required to give up the time of one if the Senior Managers sometime in the future?