Capita has a white paper discussing shared services in local government. Summary: not much going on, should be part of the policy agenda, not just efficiency.
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
Brown has made a strong speech on liberty, and touches on the identity and ID cards issue.
The structure of local government debate just gets more complicated. With costs looking like spiralling to
TCS is close to a $1.2bn contract with Nielsen to outsource IT and operations worldwide.
The PAC says that Whitehall is improving its practice in dealing with IT suppliers and projects.
Devolving budgets to end users makes a lot of sense, so long as we can understand spending patterns and document improving outcomes.
An interesting idea from NLGN on how local government might respond to CO2 emissions – looks like a good example of authorities taking the lead on national issues through local delivery.
Chris Bull looks to become the first joint county council and PCT boss. An interesting model given the great overlap between regeneration, communities, social care and health.
A positive reaction from the local government IT Managers’ association about the Service Transformation Agreement.