The CMA, currently chaired by the CEO of the Boston Consulting Group, Camilla Cavendish of the FT and Josh MacAlister MP are known to each other, how? Have the declarations of interests been made public and what of the findings from Counting Cumbria?

Regional and subregional commissioning requirements remain far from clear. The patch I looked at had 27 Council’s and about, then, 14 PCT area’s the aggregated contracting spend exceeded all of the statutory permissions of any one Contracting Authority. The tension between Contract Officers, Social Workers and IRO’s shackled to a fear of getting caught out for knowingly giving primacy to Services Level Agreements over the individual Care Plans for children.

The current case law on Information Rights defies otherwise held duties for information retention and management by individual Councils ~ there’s no indivisible obligation when there ought to be.The DCS really must dig-in and ask/demand that the Office of the Chancellor of the Duchy(sp) [the Office with constitutional obligations for information management responsibilities] makes representation to the DofE to ensure a greater expectation than a ‘word of mouth’ standard of governance.

Operation Hydrant, the police part of iicsa, have been consulted, right? Publishing the data on the use of s174-s177 of the Company’s Act 2006 is a must do and immediately so. I wonder if CC will ask for it? Better still maybe Open Democracy in their Dark Money coverage will do it instead.

Calling the RCC’s cooperatives won’t mitigate nefarious influences ~ it’s a buyer beware market and the CMA have said as much too, saying that “[we] have been sleep walking into the [existing] mess.”

Scrutiny, eh!