Grant Thornton are the external auditors of bent Labour Sandwell Council and recently prepared an explosive report into some of the chain of disasters the comrades have inflicted upon the benighted Borough.
This is the second of a short series of vignettes dealing with another Labour sh*tshow.
Part Two - Sandwell Children's Trust (SCT)
There are people in Sandwell who purport to be intelligent and yet also claim to support bent Sandwell Labour despite its shocking record. One thinks especially of many of the ghastly, snobbish, people of Bearwood, in particular, who live in a sh*thole but consider themselves as representatives of the Brahmin left (per Pinketty). In reality, they are pathetic people who would move to Harborne tomorrow if they had the dosh.
There are also the many so-called "faith groups" of Sandwell - of all denominations - who profess to "do good", but who are constant rimmers of the bent Labour Dictatorship.
It seems that there is nothing bent Labour can do that will not stop these morons voting for them. Corruption? Yes, we will "X" for more of that! Cronyism? Yes, we will "X" for more of that! Rampant Incompetence? Yes, we will "X" for more of that!
But what about about children being physically and sexually abused and assaulted? Kids being deprived of a decent start in life? What of the kids Labour boast are "starving" on the streets after 47 years of their Dictatorship? (In fact, Sandwell has a massive child obesity problem due to poor diet but why should the comrades let facts get in the way of fake Labour propaganda?) What of the crisis of child health and mental health care engulfing the "socialist paradise"? Surely the do-gooders are appalled at Labour's disastrous handling of Children's Services? Well you don't find them shouting about this abject failure or witholding their Labour votes whilst demanding improvements. At the end of the day, they just don't care (or care enough). Child being sexually abused? Yes, we will "X" for more of that! Education and health care deprivation? Yes, we will "X" for more of that! "Don't you see? We ALWAYS vote Labour in Sandwell."
(48 years soon!)
When Labour had morons like Dickhead Darren Cooper (who regularly claimed Sandwell's Childrens Services were "brilliant" when the opposite was clearly the truth), Jan Britton (who steered the ship into the iceberg and then publicly slagged off the crew) and Cllr Simon "The Sandwell Slasher" Hackett (who has cost the people of Sandwell hundreds of thousands of pounds regarding a safeguarding issue) what did people - even the prats in Abbey Ward - expect?
Labour cocked it up royal and to such an extent that they were stopped from running most of the service. The Government set up the Sandwell Children's Trust in 2017 to try and improve things but, in the first disastrous move, Labour forced a crony, Jacqui Smith, into the position of SCT Chair. Inevitably, the service remains sh*t and the most vulverable kids in Sandwell are being shafted again both figuratively and, alas, sometimes literally. I could weep.
The Chair has a limited role, but a very important one, in this context. It was vital that someone should "set the tone" and provide real leadership in challenging circumstances. Am experienced expert was needed to ensure good practice from the off. But this vulgarian is already Chair of a London NHS Trust (amongst other things) but seems (if her Twittering is anything to go by) to be most interested in pursuing a media career when not making crap jokes about her "jugs" (Strictly Come Dancing and regular broadcasting).
Things have deteriorated so much already that books are being published on Amazon about this sh*tshow eg. this one about the "toxic culture" at SCT:
Buy here:
On 18th December, 2021 Smith was bragging about her media work (a podcast) again (with a thin veneer of smut):
Under Smith, the SCT finances have been all over the shop from the start. And the Conservative Government has had to ride to the rescue during Covid to bail them out. Here's what Grant Thornton have to say in their stinging criticism of Sandwell Labour:
"We concluded that there were weaknesses in the Council's arrangements for delivering services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers.
SCT has a track record of annual overspends and not achieving planned savings targets. The overspend in 2020 is approximately £2m, however one-off Government Covid-19 funding resulted in the final outturn being an underspend.
The key workforce issue for SCT relates to operational roles with significant recruitment and retention challenges with social workers. SCT has invested in a recruitment campaign called 12 reasons to work in Sandwell but this has not been effective in resolving recruitment and retention issues … [Skidder comment - This was a problem in 2018 - it's now 2022 - see picture below!]
The use of agency staff to cover vacant roles, and staff sickness levels, pose a significant risk to the continuity and quality of service delivery, along with increasing costs for the trust, which in turn is likely to impact on council budgets.
The Trust continues to have serious weaknesses in some areas identified in previous inspections."
Perhaps the 12 reasons not to work in Sadders were outweighed by the "toxic culture" described in the Amazon book and the decades-long history of Labour failure. And who would want to move to a sh*thole like Sandwell - not Jacqui Smith for one. She lives in South Worcestershire!
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Addendum: 27/01/22
This post was published two days ago and yesterday Rhi Storer wrote a piece in the Birmingham Mail concerning child deaths and other horrors in Sandwell. After 47 years of Labour this is the grotesque reality of life - and death - in the rotten Borough. You can read the article via this link:
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