Taskforce ? - what Taskforce?

These are the Turkeys who constitute the Radar/Remploy Taskforce, the body of professional fellow travellers Remploy establised with public money to provide it with ' independent advice' and network the outcome it wanted. Not any concrete outcome, just screwing around with peoples lives.



* Kate Nash (RADAR)
* Mike Buckley (RADAR)
* Andrew Crammond (Mencap)
* Agnes Fletcher (DRC)
* Sharon Collins (Scope)
* Alison Cobb (Mind)
* Matthew Lester (Papworth Trust)
* Kathy Makin (Employment Opportunities)
* Jane Mansour (Work Directions)
* Bob Grove (Sainsbury Institute for Mental Health)
* Bob Warner (Remploy)
* Stuart Knowles (Remploy)
* Karen Graham (Remploy)
* Marilyn Howard (Social Policy Analyst)


You'll note the inclusion of the illustrious Dr Bob Groves of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health who, with Dr Helen Lockett his untrustworthy sidekick, has just legged it from the Surrey and Borders partnership Trust with £41,000 of public money after completely botching the ' Modernisation ' process there.

For you numbers people, that means Bob Groves and Helen Lockett cost at least as much to subsidise a year as the average sheltered Remploy worker only Bob and Helen are seconded to or associated with so many other bodies their real subsidy is probably 10 times as much.

These Turkeys wont have to worry about Christmas again this year will they? Perhaps they can go and spend it with the Edwards family who seem to be doing very nicely out of the disability industry as well.