Liverpool Council is yet to inform schools across the city how they will be impacted by its expensive energy contract foul-up.
Earlier this year, a litany of errors at the Cunard Building led to £16m being added to the local authority’s energy bill. Council leaders were not informed that the electricity provider it was dealing with had withdrawn from the commercial market, leading to the local authority - and other city institutions - being placed on a far more expensive contract.
In the aftermath of that error, former finance lead for Liverpool Council, deputy Mayor Jane Corbett said in an interview that schools would not face the consequences of the financial missteps of the administration. However, Jonathan Jones, director of education, told a meeting of the city’s education and skills select committee that “no further assurance” could be given to schools about the impact they may face.
