Three councils in Wales have vowed to go it alone – despite pressure to deliver efficiencies in public services. The councils have defied expectations by announcing that they had refused to deliver shared services with other local authorities. Cardiff City Council, Newport City Council and Caerphilly CBC have rejected plans put forward by the Welsh Assembly Government for Welsh councils to work together more closely to deliver savings. The three councils have decided against providing joint HR, training and payroll services. Cardiff City Council leader, Rodney Berman, said: ‘With these particular services, we believe we can save more money, more quickly, by doing our own internal reorganisation of the services we provide.' Unison predicted this would make the Welsh Assembly's plans unviable but the projects senior officer, Bridgend CBC's chief executive Jo Farrar, said they had not expected all councils to participate and did not expect problems as a result. Those councils taking part are not expected to see savings until 2016. A WAG spokesperson said the project would still deliver benefits if not all 10 local authorities were involved.