I notice, amidst all the gloom in local government, that there is some good news at the next Brent Executive. Brent has a longstanding shared registery office arrangment with Barnet. Happily, this service has not been bundled into Barnet's ill advised mass privatisation of public services.
Instead, it is proposed that Brent take over the Barnet services and run them on Barnet's behalf, which benefits the two Boroughs by a saving the region of £150,000 on a total spend of a little under £1 million. It doesn't seem to me to lead to any likely diminution in service. The more such genuine efficiency savings can be found the fewer cuts there will be.
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