News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 14th September 2016

Why has the Chief Fire Officers’ Association done you a big favour this week?

I was at the CFOA AGM this week, promoting the CTPrac™ programme we deliver for them. During the event, they profiled their new videos on collaborative working called Beyond Blue Lights.

In the short videos they explain, through day- in-the-life stories of staff involved, the types of joint working they are involved in across the public sector. Click here to see the video on council, police and fire collaborative working in Peterborough. It is a free, very helpful resource that SSA will certainly be using in our CTPrac™ sessions and I would recommend you use it too, in appropriate meetings where you need to stimulate conversations on multi-partner collaborative working.

There is plenty of other news and 11 collaborative working jobs this week, so I will let them speak for themselves, including an item on advances in Japanese Health & Social Care. It seems you may be collaborating with a team of robots within the next 10 years!

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Blue Light Transformation

Collaboration ‘essential’ to locally-driven reform, says Policing Minister

Policing Minister Brandon Lewis has used his first speech before the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales’ conference to encourage further blue-light collaboration. Read more >>>

Beyond Blue Lights 2016 Trailer

Beyond Blue Lights is a long-form current-affairs style programme, anchored by Natasha Kaplinsky, produced to broadcast standard for the membership and beyond. The programme explores the role and importance of the Fire and Rescue Service in the UK. Read more>>>

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Highway Code

Time to make local voices heard on fiscal devolution

PSE investigates the latest developments around full business rates retention locally and the prospect for further fiscal devolution. Read more >>>

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Local Government

South West districts to merge

Taunton Deane and West Somerset councils are set to merge following a council meeting last night. Read more >>>

West Midlands Combined Authority Launches Land Commission

An independent commission to look at ensuring an improved supply of land for future development was today (September 8) launched by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). Read more >>>

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Devolution

May and Brexit trigger debate over South Yorkshire devolution deal

Doubts have emerged over the future of the South Yorkshire devolution deal, the Yorkshire Post has learned. Read more >>>

Support for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire devolution

Councillors have welcomed the outcome of a public consultation on proposals to devolve power and hundreds of millions of pounds of funding from Westminster to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Read more >>>

Sajid Javid ends North East devolution deal

Devolution for the north-east of England is "off the table", communities’ secretary Sajid Javid has said. Read more >>>

 

Local and national groups gather to discuss sector’s role in devolution

Sector organisations have met to agree a set of principles to ensure English devolution deals work for people and their communities. Read more >>>

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Health & Social Care

The NHS can’t afford to be scared to talk about change

Services are going through major changes that aim to help make them more efficient and better at delivering tailored support. Read more >>>

Tech giant IBM and Harrow Council team up to provide ‘world first’ social care innovation

Harrow Council and technology giant IBM have joined forces to provide an innovative ‘first-of-its-kind’ social care managing system to residents in the borough and beyond. Read more >>>

Pan-Dorset Health and Social Care Academy launched at Bournemouth University (BU)

More than 50 guests attended the launch of the Pan-Dorset Academy of Health and Social Care at BU's Executive Business Centre (EBC). Read more >>>

Applications to NICE’s (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) prestigious Fellows and Scholars Programme are open

Both NICE Fellowships and NICE Scholarships are opportunities for health and social care professionals working across the UK to learn more about NICE. Read more >>>

Can robots handle your healthcare?

An ageing demographic in many leading economies means that governments expect a huge increase in the demand for ‘carebots’ in health and social care. But is the technology up to the task? Read more >>>


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