31 January 2012

Yak Yak, Rabbit Rabbit

Mr Mustard chaperoned Mrs Angry today on a visit to the North London Business Park to audit the Members' ( i.e. Councillors' ) Register of Interests. This was carried out in the largest conference room as all of the smaller more suitable meeting rooms in building 4 were engaged. The official Barnet Council chaperone, bloggers cannot be trusted to be left with a public register for even a second, didn't know how to operate the heating in the room so after 2 hours it was chilly enough for a gritting lorry to pass through. Mrs Angry will report in due course on what wasn't in the Register.

Recently Mr Mustard had cause to ask a Freedom of Information question about the Corporate Management Group which meets quarterly and he had read somewhere was comprised of the 100 most senior managers. Mr Mustard is about to give you a list of them but first let us have a suitable musical interlude.


So here is the list of the 145 managers who attend the quarterly talking shop.

Directorate Job Title
Adult Social Care & Health Service Manager
Adult Social Care & Health Customer Care and Business Manager
Adult Social Care & Health Head of Strategic Commissioning and Supply Management
Adult Social Care & Health Head of Performance
Adult Social Care & Health Joint Commissioner, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
Adult Social Care & Health Head of Practice and Mental Health
Adult Social Care & Health Project Manager
Adult Social Care & Health Service Manager, Learning Disabilities Social Care
Adult Social Care & Health Associate Director, Joint Commissioning
Adult Social Care & Health Customer Finance Manager
Adult Social Care & Health AD Transformation and Resources
Adult Social Care & Health Director Adult Social Care and Health
Adult Social Care & Health Service Manager, Older Adults Community
Adult Social Care & Health Head of Supply Management
Adult Social Care & Health Interim Category Manager
Adult Social Care & Health Deputy Director
Chief Executive Chief Executive
Chief Executive Deputy Chief Executive
Chief Executives Service Strategic Communications Manager
Chief Executives Service Head of Insight
Chief Executives Service Strategic Policy Officer
Chief Executives Service Strategic Policy Officer
Chief Executives Service Assistant Director, Barnet Communications
Chief Executives Service Head of Customer Service Transformation
Chief Executives Service Media Manager
Chief Executives Service Interim Head of Customer Services
Chief Executives Service Assistant Director - Strategy & Policy
Chief Executives Service Commissioning Manager
Chief Executives Service Assistant Director, Customer Services
Chief Executives Service Head of Performance
Chief Executives Service Head of Registration and Nationality Service
Chief Executives Service Internal Communications Manager
Chief Executives Service Head of Revenue and Benefits
Chief Executives Service Assistant Chief Executive
Chief Executives Service Performance Manager
Children's Service Head of Youth & Connexions
Children's Service Manager, Youth Offending Service
Children's Service Principal Educational Psychologist
Children's Service Catering Manager
Children's Service LNI
Children's Service Divisional Manager, Safeguarding
Children's Service Project Manager
Children's Service Divisional Manager, Complex Needs
Children's Service Director of Children's Service
Children's Service Deputy Director, Safeguarding
Children's Service Acting Head of Social Care
Children's Service Assistant Director, Schools & Learning
Children's Service Acting Div. Manager Complex Needs
Children's Service BRSI Manager
Children's Service Assistant Director, Children's Commissioning
Children's Services AD Childrens Social Care
Children's Services AD Policy, Performance and Planning
Commercial Services Head of Estates
Commercial Services Head of Corporate Procurement
Commercial Services Project Assurance
Commercial Services AD - Estates
Commercial Services Commercial Services Director
Commercial Services Project Manager, New Support Organisation
Commercial Services Valuation Team
Commercial Services Strategic Planning Manager
Commercial Services Acting Head of IS Service Delivery
Commercial Services AD Transformation
Commercial Services Project Consultancy Manager
Commercial Services Service Lead, NSCSO project
Commercial Services Assistant Director, Commercial Assurance
Commercial Services Corporate Programmes Manager
Corporate Governance Openess & Transparency Manager
Corporate Governance Divisional Manager - Advocacy (job share)
Corporate Governance Overview & Scrutiny Manager
Corporate Governance Acting Emergency Planning Manager
Corporate Governance Cabinet Advisor
Corporate Governance Head of Governance
Corporate Governance Acting CAFT Manager
Corporate Governance Head of Risk & Insurance
Corporate Governance Divisional Manager Advocacy (job share)
Corporate Governance Director of Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Assistant Director, Legal
Corporate Governance Divisional Manager - Community
Corporate Governance Divisional Manager - Commercial
Corporate Governance Business Governance Manager & Deputy Head of Governance
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Regeneration & Transport Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Regeneration Development Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Assistant Director
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Highways Manager (Network Management)
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Major Developments Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Planning Manager, Finchley & Golders Green
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Head of Planning and Development Management
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Acting EMS (Operations)
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Waste & Sustainability Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Planning Manager, Hendon
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Planning Manager, Hendon
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Homeless Persons Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Planning IT Services Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Design & Heritage Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Enforcement and Appeals Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Assistant Director
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Business Development Consultant
Environment, Planning & Regeneration DAAT Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Group Manager Community Protection Group
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Housing Strategy & Business Support Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Building Control Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Planning Policy Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Acting Assistant Director Housing and Environmental Health
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Parking Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration EMS Transport
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Environmental Service manager (Residential)
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Interim Services Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Enforcement Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Business Performance & Development Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Planning Manager, Chipping Barnet
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Highways Manager for Traffic & Development
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Housing Support Service Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Information Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Senior Engineer
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Housing Performance Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Head of Strategy (Planning & Housing
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Area Building Control Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Changes Innovation Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Manager, Greenspaces
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Principle Project Manager
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Interim Director Environment, Planning & Regeneration
Environment, Planning & Regeneration Regeneration
Finance Head of Treasury
Finance Assistant Director, Financial Services
Finance Head of Finance - EPR and Corporate
Finance Assistant Director, Strategic Finance
Finance Head of Finance, SAP systems, Closing & Monitoring
Finance Head of Projects Finance
Finance Exchequer Functions
Finance Assistant Director, Finance
Finance Head of Finance - Adults and Children's
Finance Head of Strategic Finance
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
Graduate
HR Health & Safety Manager
HR Interim AD People
HR Head HR Business Partnering & Change
HR Head of HR Service Delivery
NHS Barnet NHS Barnet
NHS Barnet
NHS Barnet
NHS Barnet


Directors in blue, Assistant Directors in magnolia and everyone else on a white background in case you were wondering.

So Mr Mustard asked to see the minutes of this talking shop to be told that there aren't any. Just to be sure he has asked to see any written record whatsoever and if there isn't one he will let you know.

Do you suppose this is the only meeting of lots of management that takes place? Well, there are the FirstStat meetings. FirstStat?

Meetings held by the Chief Executive to challenge and discuss performance issues against corporate priorities.

Mr Mustard is fairly sure that non-stick won't be sat in a room talking to himself. These are held roughly every 2 months. The last one that Mr Mustard knows about was on 13 December 2011 and was in order to look at Barnet’s response to the pan-London disorder: August 2011. Mr Mustard hasn't asked how many people are obliged to attend FirstStat meetings as he can see already see that there are too many meetings involving too many poeple without having precise statistics.

Let us not forget the Council Directors Group which presumably only involves Directors although Mr Mustard won't be surprised if it also includes Assistant Directors. There are minutes to this group which meets fortnightly and Mr Mustard has asked to see them. They have to be redacted and a long delay is on the cards.

Mr Mustard expects that he will receive emails telling him of other regular talking shops that go on. There was one on Monday 30th January 2012. Mr Mustard does not think it achieved much but it was most illuminating. You will need your hankie to dab your eyes with as it is a corker (non-stick has forgotten that jokes are usually on Fridays but perhaps he had to do something important like check the number of available car parking spaces. Mr Mustard didn't even try and enter NLBP in the car; he committed the heinous crime of parking in a side road where there was plenty of room and all for free)

And now a message from a little cheese:
On Monday morning a big management meeting was called, whereby the Big Cheese waxed lyrical about how great Barnet is and how other councils are queueing up to learn from Barnet (oh dear Mr Mustard is rolling around on the floor laughing hysterically; How not to do it is what they come to find out), how they are not going to go back on a decision made two years ago. It was all very over the top. Here is proof that the wheels are starting to come off of the OneBarnet bandwagon.
That's enough on boring meetings.
Yours frugally
Mr Mustard

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