Is anyone else following this? It's giving me a major sense of schadenfreude. She's now quit as Chair of the company, following quitting as Cameron's "Families Tsar" (hate that phrase). Speculation suggests this is because some major shit is about to hit the fan, when the fraud investigations get going.
I think it's interesting because it reflects badly on Cameron (again! Doesn't seem to pick his friends very well), and damages the case for private provision of what were formerly state services - in this he's reaping the fruits of situations created by Nu Lab. What seems to happen when private companies get involved isn't simply magical improvements in services, for minimal outlay, but more akin to a feeding frenzy at a trough (she paid herself £8.2m last year) with no basic changes in the situations they're supposed to improve - in fact a4e are on record as doing markedly worse than job centres etc. Any lucky soul here had first hand experience of their "services"?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/24/emma-harrison-quits-chairman-a4e
I think it's interesting because it reflects badly on Cameron (again! Doesn't seem to pick his friends very well), and damages the case for private provision of what were formerly state services - in this he's reaping the fruits of situations created by Nu Lab. What seems to happen when private companies get involved isn't simply magical improvements in services, for minimal outlay, but more akin to a feeding frenzy at a trough (she paid herself £8.2m last year) with no basic changes in the situations they're supposed to improve - in fact a4e are on record as doing markedly worse than job centres etc. Any lucky soul here had first hand experience of their "services"?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/24/emma-harrison-quits-chairman-a4e