Edinburgh Council Meeting on Care and Support Tender

Added on Wednesday 9 Jun 2010

Calls for convenor to apologise or resign over failed tender - Both the council leader and the chief executive have now apologised for the failed care and support tender. But Councillor Paul Edie has yet to speak on the matter. Today's meeting of the council's policy and strategy committee was dominated by the report into the failed care and support services tender. With a packed public gallery present, the chief executive of the council Tom Aitchison outlined the report, which included at least 27 flaws in the tender process, including inadequate leadership, poor management, poor consultation with vulnerable service users, lack of a clear paper-trail, and flaws in the quality assessment process which decided the organisations to be awarded new contracts.

Source:  The Guardian