Antonia Romeo, senior official involved in Transforming Rehabilitation project which semi privatised probation service, is named as new permanent secretary at Ministry of Justice.
Ms Romeo insisted NOMS had a business assurance board designed, she said, to “give me, the senior responsible officer, the assurance that this is going to work and isn’t taking on any unnecessary risk.” Unfortunately it didn't quite work out like that.
In 2014 Ms Romeo said of the project: “My job as senior responsible officer is to make sure we deliver the benefits of the programme. We need to really understand what’s going on – and there are no prizes for not listening.”
The semi privatisation project has since been reversed with all probation coming back under state control after former chief inspector of probation described scheme as "irredeemably flawed".
The MoJ press release:-
Appointment of Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP, said:
“I am delighted to welcome Antonia back to the Ministry of Justice. I know that she shares my passion for renewing the Justice system, protecting the public and reforming offenders, and I look forward to working with her as we build back safer from the pandemic. I am also extremely grateful to Mike Driver for his exceptional leadership as interim Permanent Secretary, and for his help in navigating the challenges the department has faced over the latter half of the last year.”
The Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, said:
“Antonia’s appointment is great news for the Ministry of Justice. As an experienced Permanent Secretary she brings with her a wealth of experience garnered in a variety of roles across government, as well as a deep understanding of the Ministry of Justice. I should also like to thank Mike Driver who has provided strong leadership to the department over the last few months.”
Commenting on her appointment, Antonia Romeo said:
“I am thrilled to be appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice. I have spent the majority of my career in the department, working on its vital agenda of protecting the public and reducing reoffending, ensuring access to justice, and upholding the rule of law. I know first-hand the incredible job that the 75,000 MoJ staff do every day, and I’m looking forward to working with the Lord Chancellor, Ministers and the team on this important work. At the same time, it is hard to leave DIT after four brilliant years building the department and launching the UK’s independent trade agenda - thanks to all Ministers and colleagues.”
Antonia will take up her post on 18 January 2021. John Alty, Director General Trade Policy will take on the role of interim Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade while a process is run to appoint a permanent successor.
The Cabinet Secretary, with the approval of the Prime Minister, has appointed Antonia Romeo as the new Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP, said:
“I am delighted to welcome Antonia back to the Ministry of Justice. I know that she shares my passion for renewing the Justice system, protecting the public and reforming offenders, and I look forward to working with her as we build back safer from the pandemic. I am also extremely grateful to Mike Driver for his exceptional leadership as interim Permanent Secretary, and for his help in navigating the challenges the department has faced over the latter half of the last year.”
The Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, said:
“Antonia’s appointment is great news for the Ministry of Justice. As an experienced Permanent Secretary she brings with her a wealth of experience garnered in a variety of roles across government, as well as a deep understanding of the Ministry of Justice. I should also like to thank Mike Driver who has provided strong leadership to the department over the last few months.”
Commenting on her appointment, Antonia Romeo said:
“I am thrilled to be appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice. I have spent the majority of my career in the department, working on its vital agenda of protecting the public and reducing reoffending, ensuring access to justice, and upholding the rule of law. I know first-hand the incredible job that the 75,000 MoJ staff do every day, and I’m looking forward to working with the Lord Chancellor, Ministers and the team on this important work. At the same time, it is hard to leave DIT after four brilliant years building the department and launching the UK’s independent trade agenda - thanks to all Ministers and colleagues.”
Antonia will take up her post on 18 January 2021. John Alty, Director General Trade Policy will take on the role of interim Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade while a process is run to appoint a permanent successor.
--oo00oo--
In other New Year news:-
This news must be a hoax. Fake News! You're avin a giraffe, Jim Brown.
ReplyDeleteRomeo clearly learned a whole new Trumpian skillset while living it up in New York. Can you perhaps revisit her interview to Civil Service World in full to help me digest this unpalatable announcement?
She oversaw the pisspoor, incompetent & proven-to-be-useless decimation of the Probation Service in the knowledge it would mean hundreds of dedicated, skilled staff were thrown out of the top floor window into the abyss of unemployment. She was highly rewarded & promptly spent indecent amounts of taxpayer funds on flying across the Atlantic regularly whilst re-decorating her New York premises.
This isn't failure being rewarded. Its an intentionally malicious act, a show of power; control & command tactics at their most cruel. Its a sick joke.
Why not go the whole hog & install Trump as clinical director of the World Health Organisation?
It’s sickening.
ReplyDeleteCrozier and Farrar awarded for their LACK OF service to probation.
Romero appointed for her experience of running public services into the ground.
And how many offenders did Mrs. Sonia Flynn, Chief Probation Officer NPS & Dr Josephine Maria FARRAR supervise during the pandemic?
ReplyDeleteNone these are selected in club people who take massive salaries live in beautiful places and are part of the establishment we have no idea about. Post pandemic the Tories are dead I hope as people realise they are the most corrupted self interested set who happily see the rest die before their profits and money count.
DeleteJo Farrar is the Chief Executive of HMPPS, of which probation is a small part and was given the honour for a lifetime of public service. The whole world doesn't revolve around probation you know!
Delete... and if you think about the shitty state of HMPPS, prisons, probation and the Courts....
DeleteIn 2014 (some of the interview is quoted by Jim above) CSW returned to the MoJ’s Petty France HQ to talk about the probation outsourcing programme with Antonia Romeo, director-general of criminal justice…
ReplyDeleteSince last year the MoJ’s mismanagement of the electronic tagging contracts run by Serco and G4S has raised yet more questions over its ability to manage private suppliers. And the probation scheme is far bigger and riskier than either the interpreters or the tagging projects.
“The point of this programme is to bring into scope 50,000 offenders,” explains Romeo. “This is an affordable way of extending provision to the under-12-month group, where we think we’re likely to have the most impact in terms of reducing reoffending.”
By changing the roles and expectations of those working with offenders, she believes, the scheme will cut the costs of reducing reoffending. “This work is going to be done in a completely new way,” she says. Most offenders, she points out, have “a very complex and intractable set of problems that need to be looked at holistically.”
“We’ve got to design a system that works locally, and we spend a lot of time engaging with local partners” … With the contractors looking upwards to NOMS, why should they engage with other local organisations to build those holistic services? “Because they’ll have some of their money at risk against reductions in reoffending,” she replies. “What works is working across the piece with local partners – so they’ll be highly incentivised to do that.”
The NPS, meanwhile, will continue to oversee high-risk offenders. As the new system is established, these will be identified using what Romeo calls an “actuarial tool”: a piece of software that “looks at all the indicators and does something rather complicated and determines what level of risk someone is.” Romeo denies that such offenders will suddenly be presented with a new set of staff and procedures: “It doesn’t necessarily mean a completely new set of people; it will all depend on what’s best for that particular case,” she says. “They will now be the responsibility of the NPS, but in terms of who’s doing offender management and what are the interventions – that won’t necessarily completely change.”
Romeo acknowledges that the ministry hasn’t trialled its final proposals anywhere. “You have to turn on the statute once nationally,” she says. “You can’t provide rehabilitation services to under-12-month cohorts in some areas and not in others – not least because people go in and out of prison, and end up in different areas, so whether they were covered by the statute or not and whether that service provision existed would become impossible to manage.” Furthermore, she notes, there’s “a timing issue, because the government’s policy is to roll it out by 2015, so we can really start feeling the effects in reductions to reoffending.”
“To get large transformation programmes working, you’ve got to have really good assurance in place so that you know you’re not believing your own hype,” she says. “We have external, independent assurers telling us if we’re doing the right thing and, before we proceed with any part of the programme, whether it’s sensible and appropriate to do so.” NOMS has a business assurance board designed, she adds, to “give me, the senior responsible officer, the assurance that this is going to work and isn’t taking on any unnecessary risk.”
DeleteRomeo is sure that the new system will improve results. “At the moment, we have a very serious and professional group of probation staff working incredibly hard with local partners to reduce reoffending,” she says. “We’re seeking to allow those that move out to the CRCs the freedom and innovation to bring in new and better ways of doing things.” And in that process, she adds, “my job is to make sure that we don’t take any unnecessary risks as we move; that we look very carefully and seek assurance that what we’re doing won’t lead to any reduction in ‘business as usual’ or to any risks.”
Romeo is clearly aware of the dangers, and determined both to manage the process as carefully as possible.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/article/interview-antonia-romeo-moj
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/misogyny-behind-romeo-criticism-union-chief-says
Delete"Criticism of Department of International Trade permanent secretary Antonia Romeo has a "whiff of misogyny" about it, the head of the FDA trade union has said.
Reports this weekend of a previous investigation into allegations about Romeo's behaviour as HM consul general in New York came amid claims that she is a contender to replace outgoing cabinet secretary and head of the civil service Sir Mark Sedwill in the autumn.
Dave Penman, whose union represents senior civil servants, told The Times that Romeo had been targeted because she was a "female candidate with a profile" and an “outgoing, dynamic” personality."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8537319/Woman-tipped-No10-job-bullying-row-Claims-diplomat-loved-mix-stars.html
"This newspaper has established that a senior director at the Foreign Office voiced 'frustration and concern' at the outcome of the probe. Insiders say the row about the Cabinet Office's decision is 'an open secret' at top levels across Whitehall.
According to informed sources, junior staff members in the UK's New York consulate claimed to have felt pressured to submit expenses on behalf of Mrs Romeo that they did not believe were fully justified.
Allegations of questionable spending of taxpayers' money included more than £120,000 in fees for her three children at an upmarket New York school which had not been approved by the Foreign Office, expensive taxis and more than a dozen flights, some business class.
Officials in New York were said to be particularly aggrieved by a last-minute flight booked to London in February 2017 so that Mrs Romeo could attend that year's Bafta awards where she rubbed shoulders with entertainment industry stars.
During her time in New York, where she promoted British interests and UK trade, Mrs Romeo hosted a series of glitzy parties for celebrity figures including Calvin Klein, Anna Wintour, Joanna Lumley and the now-disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein."
Perfect credentials to head a civil service dept under Etonian rule. Just the simple traits of being profligate, self-serving & without shame were evidence enough.
Romeo, Her Majesty’s Consul General for the Department of International Trade, 'in conversation':
ReplyDeleteQ: Your job is also the Director General of Economic and Commercial affairs, what exactly does that entail?
A: I run the economic and trade investment relationship between the US and the UK for the British government.
Q: Tell us more about your favorite designers and brands…
A: I’m quite big on all the British brands. My new favourite brand is Preen. Jenny Packham, Roksandra Illnic. Peter Pilotto – and what he does with colour, is really phenomenal, it’s like wearing a piece of art!!
My job is, my job is to promote British brands, and so I take that job really seriously, if I was ever doing anything promotional, if I was ever having any event, I would only wear British.
I might also wear American because I’m here in New York, and also especially if it’s an American company that’s got an investment into the UK
Q: What are your favorite art galleries in New York?
I love the Met, and I also really like MoMA. I studied at the Victoria and Albert museum for a while in the UK, and was very much about the idea of objects as art
I threw a party when Nick Serota (who was head of the Tate) announced his retirement, he was coming out here and I threw a party essentially to celebrate his life and achievements
FFS!! And you lot whine about having to see offenders face-to-face! During a pandemic!! Get real & see what some of our hardened civil servants have to contend with in the world.
p.s. from wiki: "While serving as Consul General in New York, Romeo offered assistance to controversial company Cambridge Analytica in landing more clients in the U.S. Romeo and trade officers working on her team discussed having Cambridge Analytica feature in a campaign to promote British technology companies, called "#dataisGREAT". The company was found to have appropriated data from Facebook users without permission, resulting in public outcry and congressional review. The company later closed"
"Many donors to the UK Conservative Party reportedly have connections to the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. During Boris Johnson's tenure as foreign secretary, the Foreign Office sought advice from Cambridge Analytica and Boris Johnson had a meeting with Alexander Nix in 2016. Several of the company's executives were Old Etonians.
CA became involved in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (Brexit) supporting "persuadable" voters to vote for leaving the European Union (EU). Articles by Carole Cadwalladr in The Observer and Guardian newspapers, respectively published in February and May 2017, speculated in detail that CA had influenced both the Brexit/Vote Leave option in the UK's 2016 EU membership referendum and Trump's 2016 US presidential campaign with Robert Mercer's backing of Donald Trump being key."
Parliament that allows such an appointment is truly letting down probation workers and rubbing salt in the wound (for some it was lethal) that was introduced by the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives under Cameron and Clegg
ReplyDeletehttps://amp.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/05/prisoners-lives-risk-officers-not-wearing-face-masks-ppe?
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about this Antonia but to hold her responsible for TR would surely be holding a PO responsible for the flaws of OASYS.
ReplyDeleteThe public elect politicians who decide on policies. People like Antonia Romero are just employed to implement them, they have no real say. And quite right too as they're unelected.
Willing participants do not have to be elected, nor does someone have to be the perpetrator of an offence to be held responsible for joint enterprise.
DeleteLay down with dogs you get fleas.
Full CSW interview is available here which might demonstrate how much responsibility Ms Romeo takes for her actions:
Deletehttp://probationmatters.blogspot.com/2017/01/reflections-on-tr.html
________________________
"And from the transcript of evidence given to the Public Accounts Committee on 12 March 2014:
Margaret Hodge: But the Peterborough model, as I understand it, is voluntary.
Antonia Romeo: That is correct.
Margaret Hodge: And the model that you are designing is not voluntary.
Antonia Romeo: That is correct.
Margaret Hodge: Is there any international evidence on this payment by results stuff?
Antonia Romeo: Very little actually."
Sadly it seems HMG have deleted the archive of early evidence given to PAC relating to probation - any and all links result in "Page Not Found".
But I have found a copy so here are some of Ms Romeo's early claims to fame:
Antonia Romeo, Director General, Criminal Justice Group & Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the Transforming Rehabilitation programme
"I can reassure the Committee that for the 21 community rehabilitation companies we have done a substantial amount of design work looking at how the extension of provision to the under 12-month group will be affordable."
"You are right that the programme will bring in 50,000 offenders who do not currently receive statutory rehabilitation services. We anticipate that the service provision will be completely different."
"The programme is on track to deliver payment by results across rehabilitation services by 2015."
"Government policy is to roll out payment by results by 2015. My job is to ensure that we in the programme, and in the delivery of the policy and the benefits, have learned the lessons from existing pilots. I believe we have."
" The contracts will have a full range of remedies, up to and including termination."
"At this point I would like to assure the Committee that we are aware of the risks and that, as you would expect, we have in place contingencies should those situations arise. We are very aware that the best way to stop them arising is by investing at the outset, in terms of getting the bids right and awarding the contracts to the right providers. I would probably rather not go into detail about the contingencies, if the Committee is okay with that, because we are discussing them at the moment"
"They would not be able to change ownership without discussing it with the MOJ."
"one other lesson to be learned about contract management, of course, is that those who were involved in designing the contracts also have skin in the game when it comes to managing those contracts. When the programme finishes, the person responsible, the programme director who has this commercial experience, will move over and become the director of contract management and rehabilitation services, working within NOMS, for Michael [Spurr, now retired]"
"The fact of the national probation service’s existence essentially gives us the provider of last resort"
Delete"Well, I think I am accountable for delivery of the benefits of the programme... following the share sale there will be a period of mobilisation and subsequently project closedown. By definition, once the programme is finished, the SRO role in live state ceases to exist. The point about being an SRO is that one is worried about the delivery of the benefits beyond that. Michael, as senior business owner, and I, as senior responsible owner for the programme, work incredibly closely together to ensure that the benefits will be delivered during and after the programme... I think I can commit to setting up a system that will seek to monitor and observe and fix issues as soon as they arise."
"The first was Ernst and Young, and the second was KPMG.... but I do not know what the number of consultants is. We have used different types of consultants for different types of things... so far, in the last numbers that I signed off, we had spent £9 million."
"I have to say that I am very well aware that every penny I spend on myself, on the programme and on everything I do is going to be subject to a detailed analysis"
In answer to @13:40 - Romeo, along with others like Brennan & Spurr, were the architects & head-honchos who implemented the TR programme. They made it happen. They designed the model, managed the bids, knew there would be significant staff cuts, & told lies about the reality of what the TR project would mean for probation staff.
DeleteRomeo spent £9m on consultants in 2013/14, when probation staff hadn't seen a penny in pay rises since 2010.
The subsequent reviews of TR by any & every independent body - HMIP, PASC, JSC - were unanimous in their condemnation of the waste of resources, the loss of staff, the shambolic mess, the increases in reoffending rates, the devastating effects upon staff & those supervised by probation providers, the significant loss to the public purse.
Dame Glenys Stacey said the part-privatisation of services to monitor offenders in the community "is irredeemably flawed"
Romeo, Brennan, Spurr & a few others are primarily to blame for crashing through Grayling's pet project on a politically defined timescale, i.e. before the general election. Many more stood by & failed to intervene while others agreed to assist the implementation before walking smartly away, pockets bulging with their handsome rewards.
Romeo's own words describe her attitude nicely:
"Well, I think I am accountable for delivery of the benefits of the programme...By definition, once the programme is finished, the SRO role in live state ceases to exist."
But clearly she didn't think she was accountable for the disaster it evidently was from day one.
And thus ex-SRO Lazarus rose from the dead and flew business class to New York.
Anyone got info on who should be seen face to face now that we are in lockdown again.
ReplyDeleteCan't access the article without subscription, but the headline may be of interest, and perhaps someone would know where to look to get more info?
ReplyDeleteI find it pretty odd that the only information that seems to be available is this that's published in a police publication?
Maybe it's old news I've missed previously, sorry if it is.
http://touch.policeoracle.com/news/article.cfm?id=106496
'Getafix
"A new path to becoming a probation officer" sounds interesting - can anyone enlighten?
Deleteseems its an article by russell webster - and it refers to 2021, so i guess its a current article
Deletehaven't tried his webpage yet
"as of 30 June 2020, the National Probation Service employed 9,383 staff in post, full-time equivalents. That included 3,613 probation officers and 2,546 probation service officers."
DeleteNo comment on how many will be returning from the CRCs though.
https://www.workwithoffenders.co.uk/news/news_article/106496
DeleteNew training providers
DeleteYesterday (4 January), the MoJ showed its ongoing commitment to increasing the number of probation officers. It published a procurement notice asking for bidders to “develop, accredit, deliver and award” the PQiP. The notice shares the information that the NPS is increasing trainee recruitment (from c.600 to 1200-1500 annually) in order to qualify probation officers at the scale and pace needed to match the Criminal Justice System demand.
There are six separate contracts (“Lots”) with a value of between £22 million and £38 million each separated into distinct geographical areas which are coterminous with the 12 newly formed NPS regions (eleven in England and one covering the whole of Wales). The contracts are designed to run for seven years from July 2021 onwards.
Initially, contract winners will deliver the PQiP in its current form, but one of the successful bidders will also be appointed as the “Lead Designer” of a new curriculum framework. There are no details of the new curriculum in the contract notice although there is a commitment that the qualification will continue to be at level 6 (degree level) in line with the government’s strategic priority of professionalising the probation workforce. This, and the additional information provided in the contract notice – some of which is detailed below – suggests that the new qualification will continue to be a blended model with most teaching done via distance learning.
Successful bidders will qualify Learners joining the NPS during 3 academic years, with an option to extend to cover those learners joining in a fourth academic year starting from the October 2021 academic year. Up to 4 cohorts will be admitted in each academic year on a quarterly basis and there will be a run off period following the final intake in 2024 (or 2025 if contracts are extended) to enable the cohorts to qualify.
Clearly the MoJ plans have been somewhat delayed owing both to the late decision to abandon Transforming Rehabilitation and the, understandable, impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Organisations looking to bid to deliver the PQiP must return their bids by 3 February and the procurement is clearly going to be expedited – in technical terms it is an “Open Procedure” governed by the “Light Touch Regime” under Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Wonder if this tender notice from Sept 2020 is relevant?
ReplyDelete"Health Education England (HEE — the Commissioner) are commencing a tender for the provision of a National Oversight Hub for the Knowledge and Understanding Framework (KUF).
Health Education England (HEE), in partnership with NHS England and Improvement and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), is seeking to engage with a provider (or consortium of providers) to deliver a co-produced, central hub (the ‘Hub’) to provide national quality assurance and oversight of all knowledge and understanding framework (KUF) training. The KUF programmes aim to support growth of skills and knowledge of the workforce across the health, criminal justice and third sector, to effectively support those with complex mental health needs associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder.’
Contract value: GBP 2 534 475 which includes infrastructure costs for 3 years and training demand for year 1. Training costs for years 2 and 3 will be added to the contract price once demand has been established.
The initial programme period of three years will be a maximum value of up to GBP 4 500 000 inclusive of VAT. However, this is based upon the contract price for years 2 and 3 being negotiated on an annual basis, based upon levels of training demand."
Nothing to do with the above contracts for pqip training
DeleteFancy more on romeo? this from the website of Oliver Wyman ("76% of our clients say we have more impact than other management consulting firms."). It shows how EASY life can be when you're part of the establishment, when your face fits & when you do the bidding of your masters:
ReplyDeleteQ: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your career path since you left Oliver Wyman?
A: I left OW in 1999, did a Masters in economics at LSE, then by chance joined the Lord Chancellor's Department as an economist on a temporary contract for a year, working on competition issues and trade promotion. And I never left the public sector. I became Principal Private Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in 2006, then spent a few years in the Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office, before becoming Director General Criminal Justice in 2011. I was working for the Prime Minister as Director General Economic and Domestic Affairs over the 2015 election, and then moved out to the States with my husband, John Romeo, and kids in 2016. Now I'm Her Majesty's Consul General in New York, and Director General Economic and Commercial Affairs USA.
Q: What has been the hardest professional decision you've made?
A: Leaving my job working for the Prime Minister on Economic and Domestic Affairs, and moving to the States with my family, was probably the toughest.
My husband John had accepted a role running the North America business for OW and we knew we wanted to keep the family together and that some time in the States would be an amazing opportunity for the kids.
I was lucky the British Government were so supportive in suggesting opportunities for me to stay working for the Government out here - my initial thought was I'd need to get a secondment to the private sector. But being Consul General in New York is a dream job, so it's all worked out brilliantly.
Q: What professional accomplishments make you the most proud?
A: Delivering the 2 1/2 year, £1bn programme to reduce reoffending among ex-offenders, as Director General of Criminal Justice at the Ministry of Justice, would be right up there.
Isn't that just such a lovely, heartwarming story? I loved this bit in particular:
"I was lucky the British Government were so supportive in suggesting opportunities for me to stay working for the Government out here... Now I'm Her Majesty's Consul General in New York, and Director General Economic and Commercial Affairs USA."
And when the shit hit the fan over her extravangance with taxpayer cash & tantrums with staff, she was whisked back to Blighty (business class, of course), where Boris found her another nice little earner, promoting her to permanent secretary at the Department of International Trade.
Let us not miss what Trump is doing behind the scenes:
ReplyDelete"In one of its last strikes against the American wilderness, Donald Trump’s administration will on Wednesday auction off portions of the Arctic national wildlife refuge to oil drillers.
The lease sales are the climax to one of the nation’s highest-profile environmental battles. The lands on the northern coastal plain of Alaska are home to denning polar bears and migrating herds of Porcupine caribou that indigenous communities depend on and consider sacred. But the oil industry has long suspected that the ground beneath the plain holds billions of barrels of petroleum."
In the land of twits:
ReplyDelete* "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." (actually no, he doesn't; he's just the MC hosting the results show)
* "I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D.C. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen." (there was no landslide nor any stolen election)
* "Washington is being inundated with people who don’t want to see an election victory stolen by emboldened Radical Left Democrats. Our Country has had enough, they won’t take it anymore! We hear you (and love you) from the Oval Office. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" (again, no election was stolen by anyone, and its hard to see Biden or Harris in the mould of "radical left")
* "Antifa is a Terrorist Organization, stay out of Washington. Law enforcement is watching you very closely!" (antifa is not designated as a terrorist organisation, mainly manifesting as a random collection of non-violent protesters who are not fans of either mainstream US political party)
finding the new contracts post-Brexit has become complicated, but each CRC has had a new modification on 4/1/21 along the lines of:
ReplyDelete"The authority has made variations to deal with the following two phases:
— Phase 1: The Covid transition period (from 31 August 2020 (being when the Covid relief period expired under the previous modification) until 4 December 2020. The initial previous modification was effective until 31 October 2020 with a right for the authority to change this date. The authority issued a notice to change the date to 4 December 2020 — during this phase the CRC shall have its service delivery obligations amended temporarily to reflect the continuing difficulties of delivering their obligations under pandemic restrictions (and the authority shall waive it remedies and rights under the agreement in whole or in part, as and where appropriate, in respect of such obligations). The CRC shall deliver the services to the extent provided for (from 1 September 2020) in the Transition EDM and transition plan and the CRC shall carry out all obligations on it as set out in the Transition EDM and transition plan. The Transition EDM and transition plan are integral to the CRC moving away from the EDM and achieving progress back to business as usual deliver of the services in line with the agreement prior to the impact of the pandemic;
— Phase 2: the recovery period (being the period from 5 December 2020 to 31 March 2021 (or such other date as may be notified by the authority to the CRC)) – during this period the CRC's shall operate in accordance with the Transition EDM and transition plan with associated contractual relief but with pricing and transparency on a cost plus basis as set out in a previous modification. The invoicing procedures are also updated for this period;"
More on Ms Romeo illustrious past:
ReplyDeletehttps://irideat.com/world-news/woman-tipped-for-top-no10-job-caught-up-in-bullying-and-expenses-row/