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Governing Partnerships
17 Mar 2010
Partnerships can bring significant benefits. They are a response to the complex and multifaceted problems that face society that cannot be tackled effectively by any individual body working alone. They can provide flexibility, innovation and additional financial and human capital resources to help solve problems. These are powerful incentives for organisations to work with others and now all local public bodies work in partnerships to different degrees. The distinction between statutory and voluntary partnerships has, in effect, become blurred.
Removing Barriers to Collaborative Working
17 Mar 2010
Review of Contract Standing Orders and Financial Regulations across London authorities to ensure they support collaborative contracting.
Structures for Collaboration and Shared Services
17 Mar 2010
This publication has been produced by DCLG to assist those in local government in England, and for potential public sector, voluntary and business partners to understand the various structures that might be used with a public sector partner.
Shared corporate and transactional services: workforce implications
17 Mar 2010
Councils working together, and with other providers, on services such as finance and HR can make significant savings. The EO and 4ps have drawn on the experiences of local authorities to produce guidance on the workforce implications of shared services.
Collaboration Guidance
[download PDF document]
Exec. Summary Collaboration
Shared Services
17 Mar 2010
A report 'Shared Services as a long-term solution for local government: delivering on the Gershon report' can be now be downloaded. It was commissioned by www.Serco.com and the survey asks finance directors how they propose to meet their efficiency targets. Twenty five percent of councils responded and the overwhelming majority see their efficiencies coming from shared services which they propose to implement in the next two years. The report covers the models being adopted and the services that would most benefit from a shared approach.
DCLG Business Process Architecture
17 Mar 2010
The DCLG is delighted to promote the outputs of a
Business Process Architecture Local Authority led initiative which has
delivered a comprehensive set of processes that will provide an
excellent foundation for efficiency gains work in any Authority.
This is a strategic tool that will help Council
Executives gain a better understanding of their own organisations. It
provides a living management tool for improvement and it will help link
strategic plans to priority service and process improvements. It will
enable Executives to identify opportunities for greater collaborative
working and shared service provision.
For more information you can
contact Phil.swann@nwegg.org.uk or Nicky.jackman@communities.gsi.gov.uk
County Service Maps
[download zip document]
County Starter Kit
[download zip document]
District Service Maps
[download zip document]
District Starter Kit
[download zip document]
Generic BPA User Guide Draft
[download PDF document]
Unitary Service Maps
[download zip document]
Unitary Starter Kit
Structures for Collaboration and Shared Services
17 Mar 2010
This publication has been produced by DCLG to assist those in local government in England, and for potential public sector, voluntary and business partners to understand the various structures that might be used with a public sector partner.
Developing the local government services market to support the long term strategy for local government
17 Mar 2010
Understanding and improving the effectiveness of supply markets is critical if local government is to achieve its strategic objectives. This report considers the key challenges and opportunities facing major local government service markets and identifies thematic issues that influence effective competition across the sector.
Related CLG Working Papers
The Politics of Shared Services: What are the underlying barriers to a more successful shared services agenda?
17 Mar 2010
This report looks at how the delivery of local public services can be
shared between authorities whether by public or private sector agents.
It also analyses the main contributory factors as to why, despite the
adoption of the Gershon efficiency agenda, shared local public service
delivery is still not widespread.
[download PDF document]
Transformational Government – Enabled by Technology
17 Mar 2010
The Government has launched its progress report, Transformational
Government: Enabled by technology, covering progress across the three
main themes of the strategy:
- customer-centric services
- shared services and
- professionalism.
The report is divided into two parts, the first part
shows the overall progress made against the three themes outlined above.
The second part of the report highlights the evidence of
transformational change already apparent across the public sector.
Accompanying this report are a number of online
publications and deliverables, including case studies of successful
technology-enabled projects.
Self Help Guide to Shared Services
17 Mar 2010
Focusing on corporate and transactional services, this guidance leads local authorities though the choice of collaboration options and through the range of service delivery models that local authorities can adopt to deliver services jointly.
The system is targeted at senior officers, project directors and project
managers, and aims to help local authorities find a potential partner
and choose the right shared service delivery model.
Shared Service Guidance Overview
[download MS Word document]
Shared Services Options Evaluation - Guidance
[download PDF document]
Shared Services Options Evaluation - Templates
[download PDF document]
Please see the bibliography on page 48 of 'Shared
Services Options Evaluation - Guidance' for a list of associated
guidance material.
Partnership in Public Services: An action plan for third sector involvement
17 Mar 2010
Together, government and the third sector can be partners in helping to
change society. The positive attributes of the third sector are
different from those of government, and the two sectors working together
can achieve far more than either can achieve alone.
The plan has been jointly developed with five major
central government spending departments; it identifies areas where
public services are being opened to a range of providers and aims to
help the third sector gain access to them. In doing so, it sets out to
ensure that all third sector organisations that wish to, whatever their
size, can make a contribution to public services.
Audit Commission: Back to front
17 Mar 2010
Efficiency of back office functions in local government
Strategic Review of the Welland Partnership
17 Mar 2010
The Welland Partnership came into being in 2000. It comprises five
councils which recognised their common interests as rural councils with
market towns.
Over a period of six years, the partnership has been
recognised regionally and nationally as a remarkable success in drawing
in funding for regeneration and service improvement.
The Partnership engaged Accord Consulting to assess
its strengths and the reasons for its success, the following report
details the outcomes of this study.
Shared Services Survey 08
17 Mar 2010
This report sheds new light on the myriad of risks and challenges faced
by
those tasked with delivering one of the most ambitious
programmes in the history of the UK public sector.We hope that by
sharing their insights we can help public sector managers deliver the
next generation of shared services.
Shared chief executives and joint management - a model for the future?
17 Mar 2010
In this new report the IDeA's Stephen Fletcher and Eamon Lally explore the impact of sharing chief executives on councils’ integration, particularly in terms of efficiency savings and the shared services agenda.
Gateway Review Information
17 Mar 2010
The Department for Constitutional Affairs has recently released a document to explain the Gateway Review Process. The OGC Gateway Process examines a programme or project at critical stages in its lifecycle to provide assurance that it can progress successfully to the next stage; the process is based on techniques that lead to more effective delivery of benefits together with more predictable costs and outcomes.
Developing Supply Strategy - Completed Research Projects
17 Mar 2010
The following research projects were undertaken by teams of local government officers from the South West and South East. The findings were published by the South West and South East Regional Centre's of Excellence in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS) and the University of Bath.
- Efficiency through collaborative procurement in local government [download PDF document]
- What considerations should local authorities take into account when developing a strategy to trade with SMEs [download PDF document]
- A review of local
authority spend on taxis and transport in the social care arena
[download PDF document] - Assessment of local
authority waste services in the South East of England
[download PDF document]
Early Market Engagement - Principles and Examples of Good Practice
17 Mar 2010
OGC has released a new web-based publication, Early Market Engagement -
Principles and Examples of Good Practice, useful to anyone involved in
public sector procurement. This is based on research to consider how to
improve two-way communication with industry, as part of OGC's Kelly
Programme. You can access the new publication below, the following link
to the OGC website indicates how the report fits in with the Kelly
report.
[download PDF document]
Heather Parker, Strategic Programme Planning and Support Manager
Email:
heather.parker@emcouncils.gov.uk
Tel:
01664 502621
