North Yorkshire County Council Social Services (twinned with Havana)

The Communist dictator of Cuba Fidel Castro has just been replaced by his brother Raul.

Nepotism: it couldn’t possibly happen in England (outside the House of Commons, obviously)? That, say, a disabled vulnerable young woman could have two new carers foist on her by NYCC Social Services’ contracted out agents, no adverts for these publicly funded jobs, recruited merely on the basis that they are an existing carer’s daughter and best friend rather than their talent for caring for vulnerable adults. Could it?

Yes.

They’re relief staff, you see. So according to NYCC Social Services it doesn’t matter that there were people out there better qualified to do the job.

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