Selby District Council has hit back at a national union’s criticism of a major shake-up of its services.
The council’s Service Delivery Vehicle (SDV) sees a core of 14 staff contract out services to third parties, with the aim of saving about £1.5 million this year, and £3 million by 2014.
A report into the plans has been critical, but the council said public service union Unison had failed to offer an alternative.
Unison asked the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) to look into the SDV. APSE said: “The document does not have the detail necessary to constitute a robust business plan and appears to have been written to support a pre-conceived view of what the key elements of a new approach are to be.”
But spokeswoman for Selby council said: “They are yet to put forward their own ideas for how we should deal with a near 30 per cent reduction in funding over four years. “Indeed, we’re already dealing with a 15 per cent reduction in Government funding this month.”
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