Jack Chambers
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860 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jack Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Has been completely ineffective, unacceptable, and there's been a complete disconnect between their budget and their behavior in terms of how they've recruited and how they've allowed certain elements of their non-pay budget to go out of control in certain instances.
Yeah, yeah.
And it we obviously had a have a system of regional autonomy which has been developed, but that only works if we've got proper budgetary oversight, proper financial management, and
System of controls which works.
And that comes back to the argument I've said earlier on in terms of value for money, better delivery.
This is a huge area of spend in our economy that people expect better delivery upon.
And in some instances, we have uh you know regions which have not upheld that focus and why we have to pull back uh that in the context of enhanced controls.
But myself and Minister for Health, Jennifer Carl Mark Neal.
There'll be there'll be centralization around controls, so essentially they'll if if there's additional spend or recruitment it will be escalated above them.
So in education we've well we have actually.
So for for non frontline recruitment, there is uh enhanced oversight in where where it doesn't involve obviously teachers' SNAs or uh frontline positions in schools.
But when it comes to the administrative or management management positions, there's an education budgetary oversight group um and there is an enhanced escalation in terms of recruitment on non frontline positions.
And
And again on on that on that front we've introduced an expenditure levy to drive uh I suppose burden sharing across government.
That's not going
In an area that that that that matters, which is obviously education, there has to be uh you know collective responsibility on how we manage budgetary.
Uh the budgets are are are are the budgetary cycle in any given year.
That's why you know
It is, but we're we're we've increased spending exponentially in recent years.
And if we want to drive greater value for money, improve productivity, and drive efficiencies, that means getting more from the existing base spend.
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