Thursday 10 November 2016

News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 2nd November 2016



The councils in Wales may be moving into collaborative working in bulk if Mark Drakeford, the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, has his way.

The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) hold their conference in Cardiff tomorrow (03/11/16) in which a key topic will be the decision by Professor Drakeford to encourage greater collaboration between the 22 Welsh councils at local and regional level. The minister’s plan sounds more palatable to the councils and more likely to succeed, than the previous forced merger to eight councils.

Eleven Welsh councils have sent staff on the SSA programmes and a Cardiff based cohort completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Shared Services (now Collaborative Transformation) a couple of years ago. We have a stand at the conference to promote the Collaborative Leadership Programme, which is now part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Collaborative Transformation. So, come and say hello if you are at the conference.

Here is the rest of this week’s collaboration news and jobs…
                                                                                                                                     
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Local Government

Mid Wales Conference Spotlight on Collaborative Working by GPs

Collaborative working and partnerships between rural General Practices to share resources and facilities and the over diagnosis and the overtreatment of patients were two of the hot topics debated at the 27th annual Rural Primary Care Conference in Mid Wales. Read more >>>

Monmouthshire County Council Welcome Blaenau Gwent to the Shared Resource Service

Monmouthshire County Council, Torfaen Council, and Gwent Police have formally welcomed Blaenau Gwent to the Shared Resource Service (SRS) as an official partner. Read more >>>

Councils agree £150m Energy from Waste facility

Three Scottish councils have agreed to work together to build a new Energy from Waste facility in Aberdeen. Read more >>>

Online community action toolkit launched

The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched an online toolkit to help councils involve their residents in the design and delivery of services. Read more >>>

Over 800,000 public sector jobs at risk of automation

Over three quarters of a million public sector jobs could be automated, leading to a decrease of up to £17bn in wage costs, new research reveals. Read more >>>

Three Scottish councils combine forces on procurement to save £24m

Three councils in the north of Scotland are to combine their buying power, in a move that is expected to deliver savings of more than £24m over the next five years. Read more >>>

Transforming public services through place-based accountability

Jessica Studdert, deputy director of the New Local Government Network, discusses the need for a place-based approach to accountability to better align service activity and catalyse transformation. Read more >>>

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Housing

Keepmoat Sigma PRS partnership makes start in Sheffield

Keepmoat and Sigma announced the formation of their joint venture in June, with a budget of £800m to build more than 5,000 PRS homes across England by 2021. Read more >>>

Alternative merger code revealed

A draft of an “alternative” merger code will be published for consultation later this week. The code, seen exclusively by Inside Housing ahead of publication, outlines six principles associations should follow when making decisions on mergers, partnerships or acquisitions. Read more >>>

The role of housing associations in transforming care

The BBC Panorama exposé of the physical and psychological abuse people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour suffered at the Assessment and Treatment Unit (ATU) at Winterbourne View hospital shocked us all. Read more >>>

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Health & Social Care

Better care integration could stop a quarter of hospital admissions, LGA says

Better integration of health and social care could prevent over a quarter of hospital admissions, the LGA said today. Read more >>>

How conflict results from competing NHS and council goals

Simmering resentment between local government and NHS has broken out into conflict in some areas after councils defied the health service to publish sustainability and transformation plans. Read more >>>

Health Minister launches 10 year vision for Health & Social Care

Health Minister Michelle O’Neill today launched her 10-year vision, to transform the current health and social care system. Read more >>>

Valuing staff and providing security: social enterprises in social care

From a startup tackling isolation among the rural elderly population in Devon, to a veteran organisation working in a number of northern towns and cities, social enterprises are playing a part in meeting the growing need for social care services across the country. Read more >>>

Unlock your role in the local health economy

Michael Wood, NHS local growth advisor at the NHS Confederation, explains why now is the time to be looking outside the health sector to build some of the relationships to make final sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) a reality. Read more >>>



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