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Council keeps cash as Serco fails to pay wages

Lincolnshire CC has held back more than £1m after outsourcing giant Serco failed to pay staff wages and invoices.

Lincolnshire CC has held back more than £1m after outsourcing giant Serco failed to pay staff wages and invoices.

The council's chief information officer, Judith Hetherington-Smith, said the local authority had invoked a service credit clause in its contract to withhold £1.2m of payments following problems with schools.

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