Concern grows over ‘political’ reviews_3
18 July 2012
Best-value reviews are in danger of being driven by ideology and not the quality of local authority purchasing, according to one of the UK’s biggest councils.
Peter Sanford, a best-value policy adviser at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council who wrote its contract and procurement guidelines, has accused the Audit Commission’s Best Value Inspection Service of having an political agenda.
“There appears to be a view that if a council service is failing, then the inspectors simply advocate outsourcing rather than a major...