A business support body upheld by the Cabinet Office as a national model is under threat from Falkirk Council, which is considering a move to keep Business Gateway funding under its own administrative control.
Falkirk for Business (FFB), currently a not-for-profit enterprise trust, faces the prospect of being "taken in-house" and run as a council service.
According to the council's policy and resources committee, moves to transfer the service from the private to the public sector would be made on the grounds of management efficiency, transparency, increased flexibility and "clearer, streamlined and simpler structure with no 'them' and 'us' between the Council and delivery bodies."
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