26th September 2016

This evening, Wirral Council’s Audit and Risk Committee will meet at 6 pm.

The main thrust of the meeting will be the desire to sign off last year’s accounts.  However, this time around, a couple of flies have landed in the ointment.  One is the recent ‘inadequate’ OFSTED finding against Wirral Children’s Services – which came about despite the fact that the CEO and most council directors had known of this failure for a long time.

The other is in the shape of a qualifying objection lodged with the council and their auditors – Grant Thornton – by an anonymous, meddling Wirral elector on 10th August this year.

Here’s a link to the Grant Thornton report for this meeting which contains reference to this.

The objection is centred around LOBO loans – Lender Option Borrower Option – and the aim of the move is three-fold:

• the authoring of a Public Interest Report