News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 10th February 2016

And so, the layer of collaborative transformation staff to support combined authorities begins to grow!

The advert for the Managing Director, Tees Valley Combined Authority was published last week marking the external recruitment of a new layer of leadership and project management teams that will glue the £multi-billion combined authorities and devolution projects together.

Almost 1,000 people across the UK will be needed to fulfil these full-time roles and they are unlikely to be loaned from under-staffed councils or partners. If you have been through the Shared Service, or Collaborative Transformation, Practitioner programmes then you are exactly the kind of people they will need to recruit, for these projects to be successful.

 

The benefit for you, is that these are jobs are likely to last for a time, as the combined authority structures are built-up. Compare that, to the continued management and staff reductions with-in organisations as public sector budgets continue to be cut or frozen.

 

SSA will continue to post these kinds of jobs on our website, but there is no harm in you subscribing directly to public sector jobsites, just to keep your eye on the local ball. To have SS(PRAC)™ or CTPrac™ on your CV will do you no harm when applying either! We are just putting dates together for post Easter sessions if you would like to step onto the programme.

Here is the news update from the last 7 days...

 

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The new SSA Collaborative Communications Toolkit seminar is on 26^th February in London. This new toolkit and one-day seminar, is for Communications and Programme Managers who are responsible for shared service/devolution multi-partner, multi-stakeholder communications, often with limited resources or specialist skills. Click here to see the contents and journey map.

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Devolution

Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016

Here are full details of the sections in the Act. Read more >>>

Using built assets for successful devolution

It’s a topical question, in the context of devolution deals and the government’s announcement in the spending review that councils will be allowed to keep money raised from asset sales to reinvest in local services, and will be set targets for asset sales. Read more >>>

Deadlocked Yorkshire devolution: Who will blink first?

With no end in sight to the deadlock blocking the government's ambitions for sealing devolution deals for Yorkshire it could be a case of who blinks first. Read more >>>

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Health & Social Care

'Nothing of this scale has been tried in Wales before': plans for £60m wellness village gather pace

Plans to regenerate a Carmarthenshire town with a £60million ‘Wellness and Wellbeing Village’ are some of the most innovative the country has seen, say health bosses. Read more >>>

Care Act ‘increasing tensions’ with NHS trusts over social worker integration

Report finds integration in mental health is facing 'unprecedented challenges' as budgets tighten. The pressure on councils to deliver on their Care Act duties is ‘increasing tensions’ over deals to integrate mental health social workers in NHS trusts, research has found. Read more >>>

Patients with long-term conditions need a joined-up NHS

Transforming the care of long-term conditions is the key to ensuring the financial sustainability of the NHS. But although there is wide agreement on what needs to change, progress towards achieving it is painfully slow. Read more >>>

Are you a care worker? If so the days of hourly pay might be over

A radical plan by Glasgow City Council to stop paying for social care by the hour has been criticised as forcing care users to pay the price of fair wages for care workers. Read more >>>

New Health and Social Care Partnership launched in Fife

The launch of Fife’s new Health and Social Care Partnership was officially marked at a conference yesterday. Created by Fife Council and NHS Fife, the partnership is part of the Scottish Government’s ambitious programme... Read more >>>

North-east care merger on track

Work is on track to unite NHS Grampian and councils across the north-east to improve health and social care. New Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) for Moray, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City will be formally established in April. Read more >>>

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Blue Light Collaboration

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Police are 'too different' to join forces under devolution

Nottinghamshire Police would "look to the south" if they considered merging forces, according to a prospective police and crime commissioner. Read more >>>

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