FRONTLINE trading standards, environmental health and licensing services will not suffer from plans to run them jointly with Merton and Richmond councils, Croydon councillors have been assured.
The guarantee was given at a meeting of the council's scrutiny committee on Tuesday.
The committee was discussing a call-in of the proposals by opposition Labour councillors.
Labour councillor Sean Fitzsimons said his party feared a jointly run operation would impact on staff and on the delivery of the services.
The report presented to the committee said over the next ten years the total savings from sharing services could reach more than £13.7 million.
The move would see the appointment of a head of shared services and a cut in management posts across the three boroughs from 16 to 10.
Paul Spooner, Croydon's interim director of planning and environment, told the committeethere would be no change in terms and conditions of employment of front line staff.
The committee agreed to recommend to the cabinet that the deal should not be finalised before it came back to scrutiny for further discussion.