WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones and LiveWire have both welcomed news that there is to be an independent review into the governance of organisation.
Welcoming the decision The MP said:“ I am pleased that this investigation has been confirmed. There is a clear need for an independent review following the recent libraries fiasco when LiveWire, who are paid to run the service, did such a spectacularly poor job.
“ The council and local communities should not have had to find ways of keeping our libraries open and improving book stocks – that was LiveWire’s job.
“ No-one seems to have accepted responsibility and apologised, let alone resigned. LiveWire’s senior management and board have all continued on as if nothing had happened.
“ It is important that this investigation is truly independent and its members are not connected to LiveWire in any way. The cosy consensus of people looking at others whom they know must end – it is what led to this fiasco in the first place.
“ If LiveWire is deemed not to be capable of doing the job, then the council must take action. Other authorities run libraries in-house and have kept them operating successfully. If need be Warrington should do the same. “
A spokesperson from LiveWire, said: “We welcome the governance review and will work alongside Warrington Borough Council to respond to any recommendations that may be made.”
After asking LiveWire to carry out a review of libraries to save circa £300,000 a year, which included extensive public surveys and meetings, Warrington Borough Council decided to take it back to the drawing board and set up a panel, which is due to make a decision later this year.
It is believed a number of libraries which had been earmarked for closure, will now not close.
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Who will conduct the review? WBC or the Charity Commission?
WBC’s record with “independent reviews” does not augur well for this latest intention.
Yawn Helen Yawn. Bluster. Predictable. Finger point. Predictable. Demand resignations. Predictable. Move on to the next target. Predictable. Please book yourself onto a creative thinking course sometime soon and don’t forget to take the chance to read some self-help guides .The ones that deal with creativity and ones that focus on being ‘a less predictable person’. Post-election you’ve turned on the NHS, Livewire. Are we to assume that’s it’s the council next? Or the UTC school perhaps? Before returning to the start again? There are many who are beginning to believe that these bureaucrats have got the measure of you now. You rant at them and so they invite you to meet with them to discuss your concerns. And you respond (or don’t to more apt) by going into hiding.
So you don’t think that the governance of LiveWire needs a review then BILLYWIRES? That doesn’t seem to be the majority view.
The majority view of whom? Of Warrington residents? Of Livewire members? Was there a survey conducted and i missed it? Or by majority do you mean a majority of people who post regularly on here and the WG. People such as you, Positron, Page A, Freddie Steel etc etc?