How do you change
a public service from a £1.5m cost, to making half a million profit?
In the section below on ICT
& Digital, (It started with a Google search…),
Aylesbury Vale District Council tell their story of disrupting the old
way of working to make significant savings with a new, better and
lower-cost model.
Collaborative
working between organisations can also be “positively disruptive” by
focusing on the creation of new, better, lower-cost ways of working.
That can be very effective when redesign of delivery through ICT and
digital are at the heart of the “new and better” elements.
Here is your collaboration news and collaborative working job vacancies
from the last seven days…
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ICT & Digital
Soaring
budget gaps, the risk of financial collapse and a move towards
self-financing – it would be fair to say that back in pre-austerity
days not many councils could have predicted what the sector would look
like today. Read more
Andy
Fullard, interim information and technology director at Birmingham City
Council, outlines how the local authority’s ambitious new five-year ICT
and Digital (ICTD) Strategy will support the way in which local
services will be provided in the future, as the organisation continues
to undergo major changes between now and 2021. Read more
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Local Government
A
recent study, commissioned by the County Councils Network (CCN),
suggests that the amalgamation of two-tier areas into county-based
unitaries could potentially save £2.9bn nationwide and on average up to
£106m per county. Read more
Eight
Scottish councils have launched an ambitious joint economic action
plan, kick-starting an unprecedented, long-term collaboration on jobs,
skills and inclusive growth. Read more
Five
councils in London have agreed to work together to commission a new
work and health programme. Read more
Public
sector staff who move from permanent roles to agency work mainly do so
due to concerns over insufficient resources and unmanageable workloads
rather than in an effort to increase pay, a review has found. Read more
A
referendum on the creation of one ‘mega-council’ in Lincolnshire would
cost in excess of £1m despite previous county council assurances costs
would be ‘kept to a minimum’. Read more
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Health & Social Care
Approaches
to integrating health and social care have been “too top down”, while
insufficient emphasis has been placed on rebuilding shattered community
trust, contends the New NHS Alliance. Read more
MSPs
on the Scottish Parliament’s health and sport committee are
to investigate whether or not integration authorities are doing enough
to involve patients, carers, the third sector and other stakeholders in
the design and future of health and social care. Read more
New
open access learning resources for social workers, safeguarding leads
and health and social care practitioners, provide information and
guidance on how to recognise and respond to coercive and controlling
behaviour in intimate or family relationships. Read more
Dorset
councils have carried out a shared procurement exercise for an
environmental health system that they argue will improve customer
service. Read more
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Housing
Three
of the North-East’s leading social landlords have announced plans to
merge together to form one region-wide organisation with more than
23,000 homes. Read more
More
than 120 developers, investors and property professionals drawn from
across the North West gathered for a special inward investment event
focusing on the commercial opportunities and investment potential
offered by Preston, South Ribble and the Central Lancashire region. Read more
Two
Hampshire-based housing associations have had their merger backed by
the housing regulator. First Wessex and Sentinel plan to join forces to
create a new 30,000-home organisation which will be branded Vivid. Read more
Catalyst
has partnered with Berkeley Group to deliver 186 affordable units as
part of the first phase of the Southall Waterside development in West
London. Of the homes, 120 will be for “affordable” rent with the
remaining 66 for shared ownership. Read more
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Devolution
Communities
minister Andrew Percy has given the go-ahead for the west of England
combined authority headed by a directly-elected mayor. Read more
In
May, the people of the West Midlands will vote for their first
democratically elected “Metro Mayor”. This is all part of a devolution
deal struck with the Government which will see powers transfer to the
“Midlands Engine”. Read more
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