Documenting Past Failures: (11) some conclusions, part one
The previous ten posts in this series have looked at LBWF’s record of extensive failure over the past decade or so, and it is now apposite to offer some general conclusions. First, it is notable that, by and large, the cases examined share some common characteristics, which may be summarised as follows: (a) rule breaches On paper, LBWF has always possessed clear rules to govern programme inception and governance. Yet the evidence shows that these were often disregarded. Contracts were procured without seeking the requisite number of bidders; contract documents remained unsigned, sometimes undated too; and monitoring and audit requirements, even when specified as mandatory, were not respecte... »