In thinking about budget cuts, it is part of the standard shtick to talk about "frontline services". The implication is that everyone else is presumably surplus to requirements. I have always found this rather irritating. One of the hidden dangers of the Budget proposals in Brent at the moment is that things like legal services can be easily downgraded without cost. In fact, I suspect there could be real hidden costs in downgrading to be paid during the course of future procurements or judicial reviews, long after the decisions have been made.
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Indeed. Just look at the shambles that resulted in Barnet when they outsourced their legal services to Harrow and their in-house monitoring officer was not legally qualified
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/politics/barnet_council_director_departs_after_errors_led_to_unravelling_of_decision_making_1_3806059
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