News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 08 March 2017

This is the final call for entries for the LGA Shared Services Map. In addition to entries from Councils, the map is open to details of collaborations in Public Health, One Public Estate and Fire & Rescue Services too. The final deadline is 10 March, although if you contact me, we may be able to give you a few day longer if this has just arrived in your mail box. There are three ways in which we can support you with submitting your data, click here for more details on how to update existing partnership or submit a new one. Here are this week's collaboration news and jobs...

Local Government SSON's State of the Shared Services Industry 2017: European Market Report The past two years have been full of dramatic headlines foretelling the end of Shared Services as we know it. Read more Salford and Liverpool City Councils plan IT trading venture Two northern councils have teamed up to sell technology and services commercially. Read more Chancellor Philip Hammond expected to confirm support for £1.3bn City Deal for Swansea Bay While talks between the Swansea Bay City Region - made up of the local authorities of Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire - and the Treasury after continuing, it is anticipated that Mr Hammond will reference the deal in his speech on Wednesday. Read more   Call for closer working between Shropshire and Telford councils Plans by the opposition Conservative group in Telford & Wrekin to work more closely with Shropshire Council have been put forward. Read more   Performance Tracker: Spring 2017 The first Performance Tracker report finds that until recently the Government managed to maintain the quality of public services while controlling spending. Read more

Health & Social Care   Leading the way in procurement partnerships Mario Varela, managing director of NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), discusses the changing landscape of NHS procurement and the importance of clinical engagement. Read more   All health professionals should practice ‘realistic medicine’ by 2025, says CMO All healthcare professionals in Scotland should adopt a personalised approach to their care by 2025, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Catherine Calderwood has said. Read more

Housing   The London Borough of Hounslow has selected Willmott Partnership Homes to help accelerate its house-building plans Willmott Partnership Homes, part of the Willmott Dixon Group, will work in joint venture with the council’s wholly-owned subsidiary Lampton 360 to bring forward an initial 11 council-owned sites to create 844 homes. Read more Receive this Shared Service News Summary into your inbox every week. Just register on our website.

News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 01 March 2017

If you are a Council or Fire Service, there is still time to submit or update an entry in the LGA Shared Services Map. The final deadline of 10 March is just around the corner, so you can still get your partnership entries into the LGA Shared Services Map 2017. The map has been very well received with high levels of coverage and usage across both local government and the wider public sector. Building on this success the LGA wants to continue to evidence how local government is leading the public sector in efficiency and innovation through sharing services. There are three ways in which we can support you with submitting your data, click here for more details on how to update an existing partnership or submit a new one. Here are this week's collaboration news and jobs... ICT & Digital What does it take to embed digital culture? Free webinar - 11am GMT 1st March 2017 The digital environment has transformed the delivery of public services. But very often a successful transformation programme is determined by how well both the workforce  customers have been included and engaged on that journey to digital. Read more Local Government   Dorset councils announce joint procurement of environmental health solution In a further move towards shared working practices, Dorset councils have carried out a shared procurement exercise for an Environmental Health system that will improve customer service. Read more   Winners of £4m tech funding to improve journeys are revealed Nineteen councils will share £4m funding to deliver tech projects that cut congestion and improve parking in city centres. Read more TUPE   Common sense needed in TUPE service provision changes A recent legal ruling shows that sound judgment is needed during TUPE service provision changes to decide whether or not the activities carried out afterwards are “fundamentally the same” as before. Dr John McMullen advises on the ruling. Read more Health & Social Care   Health and social care integration (England) This briefing paper analyses recent policy and debate on the integration of NHS-provided healthcare and local authority-provided social care. Read more   Transforming later-life care Design Council’s communications manager, Chris Finnegan, explains how an innovative new partnership between health and social care professionals, social entrepreneurs and the public could help tackle the growing concern of how best to develop sustainable later-life care and improve our experience of ageing. Read more   10 charts that show what’s gone wrong with social care Ministers in England have said they are looking for a solution to the problems in social care. Read more   Can community projects offer a way to affordable care? With health and social care budgets feeling the squeeze, the need to find ways to care for people that are both affordable and effective is one of the country's biggest challenges. Read more   Health service reforms ‘not credible’ without social care investment Local plans to reform health services to secure the future of the NHS are ‘not credible’ unless cuts in social care and public health budgets are reversed, think tank says. Read more Health plan seals Halton Hospital's future Ambitios plans to create a ‘health and wellbeing campus’ are set to secure the future of Halton Hospital, the World can exclusively reveal. It is part of a trailblazing scheme to develop a ‘healthy new town’ in Runcorn to encourage people to keep fit, improve their diets and live independently into old age. Read more   The GP practice sharing data to transform care for homeless people Steve Benson* is happy. He’s just come out of a a 10-minute consultation with a GP he has never met, yet she was able to instantly pinpoint the help he needed. Read more Blue Light Transformation LISTEN: Police chiefs urged to consider shared control centre in the isles A renewed call has been made for a shared emergency control centre in the isles, weeks before a visit of Police Scotland chief Phil Gormley. Read more   Multi-agency collaboration sees 999 Academy open in Somerset The 999 Academy in Bridgwater, the first of its kind in Somerset, has been officially launched. The initiative is a joint collaboration between Avon and Somerset Police, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust and Bridgwater & Taunton College. Read more Shared ambulance and fire station for Louth From August 2017, ambulance and fire crews will be based in a shared ambulance and fire station in Louth, Lincolnshire. Read more   Firefighters attend over 350 medical emergencies in ambulance service partnership South Yorkshire firefighters attended hundreds of medical emergencies last year, under the county’s first Emergency First Responder (EFR) scheme. Read more   Policing and Crime Bill receives Royal Assent The government marked a major milestone in its police reform agenda on 31 January as the Policing and Crime Bill received Royal Assent. Read more Housing Homelessness associations to merge Evolve Housing and Support and Grenfell will merge later this year. Subject to completion of legal formalities, Grenfell will join Evolve on 1 April 2017. Read more Devolution Lancashire devolution deal continues as two of 15 authorities pull out A proposed devolution plan for Lancashire is to go ahead, despite two councils withdrawing their support. Lancashire's 15 local authorities except Wyre backed an original bid to take powers from Westminster but on Wednesday the leader of Fylde Borough Council said it too would pull out. Read more   Shadow combined authority holds final meeting before official formation The body set up to manage devolution for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will meet for the last time as a ‘shadow’ authority tomorrow (22nd February), as they forge ahead with the formal launch of the new Combined Authority which is expected to be formally ratified in March. Read more Receive this Shared Service News Summary into your inbox every week. Just register on our website.