Like Andrew Webb in Stockport, I helped to create the new Children's Services Directorate in Dudley, and having done that, and seen the fall-out of too many structural changes, I am very reluctant to take on trust the notion that a new structural change is all we need. Reducing the number of Directorates by one will save, typically, part of one Director's salary, as that person's skills will often be replaced at a lower level. And bringing back office services together will certainly save some money, but of course many Councils have done that already, in some cases, years ago. The problem with efficiency improvements is that once you have made them, that's it, and you can't go back to the well again.
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