It’s raining
money again this week as CLG announced the winners of £90m improvement funding,
much of which is partnership related. This takes the 2014 funding for collaborative
working to well over £200m…
Winners named for £89.4m service improvement fund
A £89.4m service improvement fund
has been awarded to 73 projects across the country, in a bid to save over £900m
in the long-term. Read more >>>
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Local
Government
Over the following
weeks I will keep you up to date with the emerging themes of how that money is
being spent, but onto the radar this week came these three collaborative working
activities…
New Essex partnership to tackle council tax fraud
The three year partnership between
Essex County Council, local councils, the police and fire authorities would
bring in an estimated £3.5m a year in extra council tax payments. Read more >>>
Cannock Chase Council to share buildings and services in bid to save half a million pounds
Sharing buildings and services is
just one of the ways in which Cannock Chase Council will pull in funds to
reduce a potential shortfall of more than £500,000 over the next four years. Read more >>>
Pension funds to pool £10bn assets
Lancashire County Pension Fund and the London Pensions
Fund Authority have begun talks to create a joint Asset and Liability
Management Partnership. Read
more >>>
Welsh Local Government
I would recommend a scan of the following article because of the facts it sets out about the Welsh debate on merging councils. It is helpful to know that there are 22 unitary authorities, 3 national park authorities, 735 town and community councils, 7 NHS Trusts, 4 police forces, 3 fire and rescue services and 9,000 councillors…
Local government reform in Wales should see the number of councils slashed from 22 to 7
The problem with Wales is
parochialism. It is one of our greatest cultural assets as a nation but it is
why we have created a governance structure that has resulted in 8,000 community
councillors and 1,264 councillors who are mainly over 60 years of age
representing our local services. Read more >>>
Next is an
important article on the Welsh political leadership developing a shared vision.
However, those of you who have a copy of the Shared Service Architect’s Trust & Vision Toolkit will know that the
shared vision cannot be about a new council structure for Wales.
It has to be a passionate picture of the new,
better world that the people of Wales could live in if public service
boundaries were blurred or removed. For example, reduced loneliness for the
elderly, more jobs for young people and long-term unemployed, through blurred
boundaries between health, business, education, blue light and council
activities. Then you create a public sector structure, retaining local democratic
representation, to serve that vision…
Welsh councils say mergers need 'shared vision'
Local councils facing mergers
have called for a "shared vision" with Welsh ministers on how to
re-draw the map. Read more >>>
Neath Port Talbot and Swansea councils agree merger talks
Two south Wales councils have
agreed to start merger talks. Neath Port Talbot councillors voted in favour of
starting discussions with neighbouring Swansea at a meeting on Wednesday. Read more >>>
Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr councils to explore a merger - despite opposition in RCT
Rhondda Cynon Taf council is to
explore a merger with Merthyr Tydfil. Council leader Andrew Morgan told an
extraordinary meeting of the authority that he had met Merthyr council’s leader
and agreed both councils should explore the viability of a merger. Read more >>>
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Collaborative
Leadership
Earlier this year we launched the Collaborative Leadership Across Communities
toolkit as part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Collaborative
Leadership at University
of Derby. The toolkit has over 50 tools, templates and techniques for leading
community based collaboration projects and with a one day workshop to unpack
it.
The following
article is inspiring in the way that a local community have regenerated their
area. This was a project started long before we developed our toolkit, but it is
the kind of purpose that the toolkit was inspired by, and equips public sector
leaders and managers to support…
The Liverpool locals who took control of their long-neglected streets
With relentless rows of
boarded-up windows, punctuated by half-demolished corner shops and purple
shocks of buddleia sprouting from the rooftops, the streets of Toxteth in
inner-city Liverpool present an eerie, post-apocalyptic scene. Read more >>>
If you have
studied on our Collaborative
Leadership Programme and are
applying the tools and techniques, you will like this New York Times article suggesting
that future US presidential
candidates are evaluated on the basis of whether they are skilled at the art of
collaboration…
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