JOINT WORKING IN EAST KENT - A BUREAUCRATIC NONSENSEConservative proposals for “Joint working” between Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, Shepway District Council, Thanet Borough Council and Kent County Council were condemned by Labour County Councillors as “bureaucratic nonsense” at yesterday’s full meeting of the County Council.Mike Eddy, Labour Shadow Leader of Kent County Council, says “This is a daft idea dreamt up by the Conservatives to cover up for the fact that their supposedly “enhanced two-tier working” is not working and not enhanced. It’s not even two-tier as it creates another tier of bureaucracy and centralisation.”Liz Green, Labour Shadow Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, says; “If this is a move to a unitary council, the Conservatives should be upfront about it. What it does mean is increased centralisation with only ten people, from one party, making decisions that get very limited local input. This is just a bureaucratic nonsense.”The scheme allows any one of the five councils to make an agreement to share services with any one or more of the other councils in the group – or indeed to share services with any other council in the county or beyond. Something they can do already anyway.
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