Exploring Alternatives: Administrative obligations

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Don Ledingham

Saturday 26 August 2006

I included the following obligations within Administrative obligations

School Boards

Home to school transport

Placing requests

Grants – clothing, free school meals, etc.

Rights of appeal against exclusion

Alternatives to current provision:

Delegate responsibility to schools or cluster of schools
Ask another authority to provide this service.
Contract it out to a private company
Establish a Scottish central facility which would fulfil these obligations

Placing requests, school boards (or their replacement) and appeals against exclusion might need more local knowledge and if not devolved to schools or clusters could be managed within a private company which is involved in the Educational Provision

As stated in previous posts I won't engage in any value judgements or evaluation of any of these alternatives until I've explored all four of the categories.

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Economies of scale

Ewan

Saturday 26 August 2006

I think there are merits in outsourcing things that are purely administrative and where money can be saved thanks to the economies of scale. Transport is one area where this would work. Placements, though, would also work better for people living on the boundaries with other local authorities if those local authorities had already clubbed their expertise together. I think the worry is that our council becomes like a multinational bank - we lose the 'localness' of our work and leave some people with nothing on their doorstep. Those kind of fears are valid but probably unfounded.

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Saturday 26 August 2006

We couldn't take this on in schools. We don't enough people or enough time. The authority does a great job with all these things. Why are you doing this?

Exploring Alternatives: Administrative obligations

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Economies of scale

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