Schools Rebuilding Project Decimated By Consultant Fees
Now we learn the UK government is playing games with our educational schools rebuild programme. This vital project has seen 20 per cent of the total budget of £55m paid out in consultant’s fees to oversee the project.
Last year the government paid an individual solicitor £30m to oversee a compensation scheme to pay injured or sick miners.
When will the government learn? Perhaps we should put them on a maths course to stop playing games with our cheque book. The current recession has probably released a number of good project managers who would welcome the opportunity to use their skills to oversee the project on a realistic salary. The saving should be reinvested into the urgent need to rebuild schools rather than pay consultants exorbitant fees.
By Alistair Owens www.keen2learn.co.uk
