Pros
They will put staff on courses. Apprenticeship scheme inproved, will honour existing contracts for reasonable amount of time for staff they accumulate from contract take overs.
Cons
Are brilliant at sweet talking councils into taking over their contracts to ruin leisure centres but then seem lost when running the leisure centre in terms of appealing to the members or familiarising themselves with that area. Our opening weekend was a distaster as they didn't seem to know how to attract people despite doing the same to the council months earlier. They squander funds, half they course I did were unnecessary & not something I've put on my CV, they paid for my petrol to drive half way across the country for a 4 hour workshop with other staff that was pointless & they seem unfocused on their 'new member journey' which constantly changed. Plus they restricted the fitnes team in my final year due to poor performances from the new contract manager in his first year, leading to drastic job losses & pay cuts. They seem to want to run their leisure centres like they're in the private sector, even though they're running contracts for council leisure centres & need to be part of the community.