Notes and References
- The Planning and Land Act 1980 exposed the Direct Labour Organisations (in construction, highways, engineering) to private competition and the Local Government Act 1988 extended the legislation to the newly named DSOs (catering, grounds maintenance, building cleaning, refuse collection, street cleansing, vehicle maintenance and leisure management).
- This point is important as it is often suggested that corporate policies such as those on equal opportunities should be sacrificed to achieve “competitiveness”. Such an approach is based on competing on price rather than service quality, a strategy that will not benefit the DSO and simply reflects all the disadvantages of the private contractor within the council itself.
- The Planning and Land 1980 Act, by introducing competition to some activities such as the building DLOs, in some councils removed them from the mainstream as defined by a common corporate framework.
- Audit Commission . 1989 . Occasional Paper No. 7: Preparing for Competition , HMSO Publications .
- CIPFA . 1988 . The Institute Statement on Accounting for Support Services
- CIPFA . Competition Joint Committee . The Extension of Compulsory Competition Meeting the Challenge VI Code of Practice for Compulsory Competition . 1989 .
- Flynn , N. and Walsh , K. 1987 . Competitive Tendering , INLOGOV, University of Birmingham .
- Mair , R. and Batty , M. 1989 . Sporting Changes . Municipal Journal , 3rd March : 22 1989