HSSD calls in spending body over childcare
Saturday 30th January 2010, 2:29PM GMT.
HEALTH and Social Services has asked the Public Accounts Committee to review the money it has spent on subsidising childcare places.
The department has been criticised for spending around £100,000 a year reserving places since 2001.
It then paid a further £65,000 for the 23 staff who used the service.
The subsidy was stopped as part of the £6m.-worth of budget cuts recently announced by HSSD.
In this week’s States meeting, former board member Deputy Mike Hadley (pictured( asked Health minister Hunter Adam why it had been introduced, calling it ‘an extraordinary waste of money’.
He also lodged written questions under the Rules of Procedure, asking the department to reveal details of its handling of the contract with First Steps Nursery, but these have now been withdrawn.
HSSD chief officer David Hughes said the department had asked the PAC, as the body charged with ensuring that the States receives value for money, whether it would be willing to review the expenditure.
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Convenient the questions lodged have now been removed. Why is this?
The answers not being in the public’s best interest I suppose.
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