Tag: SEQOL

The social enterprise previously running adult social services in Swindon, SEQOL, had to have £726,000 of agreed income written off by Swindon Borough Council in 2015/16. The Labour Group Leader responded to the news that SEQOL owed the Council £726,000 when it folded, stating: “This news shows the Conservative administration’s experiment to outsource our adult social care services to a private enterprise, has utterly failed at a big cost to the Swindon taxpayer. How can they ever say they deliver…

The Council-established health and social care social enterprise, SEQOL, will be wound up at the end of this month, with 400 staff transferring from the organisation to Swindon Borough Council and others transferring to the Great Western Hospital. SEQOL was set up in 2011 with staff from Swindon Council and the then Primary Care Trust transferred to the organisation. At the time SEQOL was seen by the then Coalition government and the Conservative administration on Swindon Council as a trend-setting…