As minuted in Wandsworth’s Scrutiny committee papers of 19th April, Civica have withdrawn from the bidding process for Croydon and Wandsworth Libraries. The campaign group has been aware of this but have been waiting for an official announcement from Croydon.
Alan Wylie’s blog has the details, which you can read here. Stop the privatization of Public Libraries: Civica pull out of Croydon/Wandsworth privatisatio…
That’s Croydon, the council who gave residents every assurance that they would be keep informed all the way through the process.
That’s Croydon, who the Croydon Advertiser exposed for spending £40K on a procurement consultant after an advertisement was spotted for the post. This later post catalogues Croydon’s record on transparency in this process.
Not looking good, is it?
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