Peter Cosgrove, LDL, and a highly explosive employment tribunal
The employment tribunal of the man who was overseeing the LDL investigation has potential to be one of the most explosive cases involving the city council in recent times.
Previous employees - like Capital of Culture chief executive Jason Harborow and city treasurer Phil Halsall - who felt mistreated were given huge pay-offs as part of their exit.
Mr Cosgrove, who knows all the internal workings of Liverpool Direct Limited like the back of his hand, could make potentially highly embarrassing revelations as part of his case.
LDL remains a highly controversial issue and many will wonder whether the case could see David McElhinney called to give evidence.
Mr Cosgrove's suspension was the first of the new Labour administration and the first under the leadership of LDL boss Mr McElhinney, who is acting council chief executive.
But will the case ever make it to tribunal, or will the council settle?
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As a victim of the LDL inability to deliver a solution I would like to voice a concern that the council are having money stolen from them in the BSF program.
LDL have not delivered a working solution and refuse to work with the school to solve them, while at the same time charging hundreds of thousands of pounds over the odds.
If you want to see how bad they are and the negative effect they are having on schools, pupils education and school performance, you need to ask about the BSF solution
Alan, is this by any chance the contract for IT services at the Wave 2 BSF West Derby School that opened last September?
Due to "urgency", West Derby was exempted from the government-approved arrangements (requiring LDL to issue warranties for its work to the schools, whether through 2020, as in this case, or not), and the contract was awarded under the old SPA with LDL. For the others they did.
See the papers for Executive Board meeting 20/10/2006 on the Council website.
I don't think we should hold our breath on this one. It looks as though Mr Cosgrove is now working for Libarata, another outsourcing company. As there haven't been any revelations to date, I think we can assume that there won't be any in the future.
I hope I'm not being bad minded when I wonder whether this was one of the 13 compromise agreements which the council spent our money on in 2010.