Ahh!! The Who what a band and what as song ("Won't get fooled again"). This is the closest lyric I could remember as strangely no rock song has ever been written entitled "Hastings Borough Council Restructuring Ends" which is a strange oversight on the part of Lennon/McCartney and others methinks.
For what seems an eternity the Borough Council have been in the throes of an enormous restructuring which has reshuffled people, responsibilities and functions in a "new broom" kind of way. It's been difficult to get clarity on a number of strategic issues issues of late as no one knew who was going to be responsible for what and which issues - like voluntary sector accommodation and the funding review - would fall in whose lap.
Anyway we are reliably assured that the restructuring light is seen at the end of the tunnel and representatives of the Community Network will shortly be meeting the Chief Executive and Council Leader soon to discuss it. I don't envy the architects of the restructure - these things are always difficult and from those who I speak to morale has taken a significant knock as people have been unsettled for a long long time as the different stages of the process took their course.
As to the results. Not cheap certainly. If savings were the intention it will take time for those to be achieved but we shall see if it genuinely creates the kind of Local Authority which is genuinely fit for the towns future. All restructurings throw up their own outcomes some foreseen - some less so. I am reminded of a friend of mine who was a personnel specialist helping to manage two major restructurings in the private sector. When he was e-mailed about the new leadership in the company his reply was simple:-
"a mix of the genuinely talented together with some who resemble those who got lucky when they wrote to Jim'll Fix It"
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