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A Braunstone Community Association (BCA) meeting held in Braunstone Leicester.
This report was acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, this was not made public for a full look at the report go to www.the-braunstone-whistleblower.g2gm.com/ or other websites that show what the residents of Braunstone think of the Braunstone Community Association (BCA) and Labours regeneration programme New Deal for Communities (NDC).
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www.mysiteboard.com/boards/index.php?user=thebraunstonevo
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE
REGIONS
INVESTIGATION REPORT
NEW DEAL FOR COMMUNITIES
BRAUNSTONE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
REPORT No: IAS 01/02 JUNE 2002
Circulation: Roger Poole GOEM Mike Meech GOEM
Pam Hough GOEM Alan Riddell NRU
Jon Bright NRU Simon Llewellyn HAPF
Andrew Lean BIAD David Rix BIAD
Stephen Atkinson Legal
Auditors: Paul Anderson
Mick O'Regan
Amanda Armstrong
Date: 26th June 2002
Investigation Report New Deal for Communities: BCA
Braunstone was selected to as a pathfinder NDC project BCA, and the NDC ideal, was sold to the people of the area when they were granted £49m. Aspirations were raised in the early months as the plans for projects were drawn up following consolation with the residents. The anticipation has been slowly eroded away as BCA failed to deliver sustainable, visible and tangible improvements to the area. At the same time it became common knowledge that the BCA management budget had become overspent and internal matters became very public. This lead to a small minority of malcontents to question and criticise the BCA. The criticism and attacks became very vocal and personnel and allegations of financial impropriety against officers were rife.
The investigation has found no direct evidence of any illegal activities. However what we did find was a series of failures within the core business systems the seriousness of which means that we can not, with any certainty, rule out the possibility that fraudulent or criminal actions may have taken place.
We found significant problems with the following areas or core systems:
Conduct of the Board as a controlling factor over BCA
Recruitment and interview processes
Project application and appraisal
Programme and project management
VFM over procurement
Asset tracking
Accounts payable
We have long term concerns over the potential liabilities being accrued by BCA, which may transfer to the Government Office, or DTLR following their demise unless robust project appraisal process carried out by GOEM addresses these problems at the outset.
When considering this catalogue of problems we could be justified in recommending that the whole scheme be curtailed now before any further tax payer's money is committed.
However, we are acutely aware that this is a pathfinder NDC project and that problems come with the territory.
John prescott 13
A Braunstone Community Association (BCA) meeting held in Braunstone Leicester.
This report was acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, this was not made public for a full look at the report go to www.the-braunstone-whistleblower.g2gm.com/ or other websites that show what the residents of Braunstone think of the Braunstone Community Association (BCA) and Labours regeneration programme New Deal for Communities (NDC).
www.mysiteboard.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=1&user=bra...
www.mysiteboard.com/boards/index.php?user=thebraunstonevo
bcaiscorrupt.myfreeforum.org/index.php
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE
REGIONS
INVESTIGATION REPORT
NEW DEAL FOR COMMUNITIES
BRAUNSTONE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
REPORT No: IAS 01/02 JUNE 2002
Circulation: Roger Poole GOEM Mike Meech GOEM
Pam Hough GOEM Alan Riddell NRU
Jon Bright NRU Simon Llewellyn HAPF
Andrew Lean BIAD David Rix BIAD
Stephen Atkinson Legal
Auditors: Paul Anderson
Mick O'Regan
Amanda Armstrong
Date: 26th June 2002
Investigation Report New Deal for Communities: BCA
Braunstone was selected to as a pathfinder NDC project BCA, and the NDC ideal, was sold to the people of the area when they were granted £49m. Aspirations were raised in the early months as the plans for projects were drawn up following consolation with the residents. The anticipation has been slowly eroded away as BCA failed to deliver sustainable, visible and tangible improvements to the area. At the same time it became common knowledge that the BCA management budget had become overspent and internal matters became very public. This lead to a small minority of malcontents to question and criticise the BCA. The criticism and attacks became very vocal and personnel and allegations of financial impropriety against officers were rife.
The investigation has found no direct evidence of any illegal activities. However what we did find was a series of failures within the core business systems the seriousness of which means that we can not, with any certainty, rule out the possibility that fraudulent or criminal actions may have taken place.
We found significant problems with the following areas or core systems:
Conduct of the Board as a controlling factor over BCA
Recruitment and interview processes
Project application and appraisal
Programme and project management
VFM over procurement
Asset tracking
Accounts payable
We have long term concerns over the potential liabilities being accrued by BCA, which may transfer to the Government Office, or DTLR following their demise unless robust project appraisal process carried out by GOEM addresses these problems at the outset.
When considering this catalogue of problems we could be justified in recommending that the whole scheme be curtailed now before any further tax payer's money is committed.
However, we are acutely aware that this is a pathfinder NDC project and that problems come with the territory.