The
questionnaire for the LGA Shared Services Map will be
hitting the desk of council shared service project managers in the next few
days. All Council Leaders and CEOs have been informed by Lord Porter, Chairman
of the LGA that the refresh of the map is starting. SSA is collecting and
collating the data.
If you are the shared service project manager for your council, and have not
received an email from SSA in the last week about updating your council’s data,
then please contact me to make sure you receive a 2016 questionnaire.
Here is the collaborative working news and jobs from the last seven days, including some evidence of rocky moments on the devolution journey…
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The new SSA
Collaborative Communications Toolkit seminar is on 26th 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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Health &
Social Care
Success Regime - Case for Change
The CCG is one of the organisations in Northern, Eastern and
Western (NEW) Devon which has been placed into the Success Regime, a programme
which aims to transform services so they can meet local needs into the future,
taking into account issues such as the ageing population and the rising tide of
long-term conditions, including diabetes and obesity. Read more >>>
Awards recognise crucial work of health staff
Staff from the Southern Health and Social Care Trust have been
recognised as among the best in Northern Ireland at the 2016 Advancing
Healthcare Awards. Read more >>>
SURVEY: Help Shape Cornwall's Health Services
Cornwall is being urged to shape the future of our health
services. A new survey is asking how we think officials can save money and
provide better care. It is as the Deal for Cornwall gives us more powers. Read more >>>
Report calls for collaborative working to assist independent living
Physiotherapists and home improvement specialists have called for
a range of measures to help people with disabilities live independently. Read more >>>
Communicating HSCN: Why the government must act now
Mark
Hall, public sector director at Redcentric, looks ahead to the rollout of the
Health and Social Care Network which is now expected in 2017. The proposed
Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) will be the successor to the NHS' current
N3 national healthcare network. Read more
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Unionist place apart mentality costing lives as NHS crumbles
Much soul-searching the other day about the example of Greater
Manchester’s health and social care devolution. Read more >>>
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Devolution
Cambridge’s business leaders round on ‘very ill-founded’ devolution plan with Norfolk and Suffolk
Business leaders have rounded on a Government devolution plan that
could see Cambridgeshire partnered with Norfolk and Suffolk. Read more >>>
Norfolk and Suffolk devolution meeting to go ahead after snub threat is headed off
A devolution deal for Norfolk and Suffolk will be discussed by
council leaders today, but only after a threat to snub the meeting amid anger
over who could attend. Read more >>>
How smart solutions can support City Deal plans
Smart Cambridge is bringing together City Deal Board and Joint
Assembly members, cutting edge businesses, University researchers and council
officers for a workshop to outline plans for smart transport technology to
support the wider economic growth and prosperity of the Greater Cambridge City
Deal area. Read more >>>
Hampshire bid for combined authority in jeopardy after councils veto ‘elected mayor’ plan
The bid by Hampshire’s councils to join up and secure greater
powers has been thrown into jeopardy due to differences in how it can be
achieved. Read more >>>
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Local
Government
Raft of pressures on local authorities has increased diversity of ICT-enabled service transformation approaches
The raft of pressures on local authorities - social, economic,
technological and political - has increased the diversity of approaches to
ICT-enabled service transformation. This is opening up opportunities to do
different things in different ways, according to Shifting sands: New structures and delivery
models, a new Socitm report that sets out a series of case studies
to illustrate its point. Read more >>>
Sutton and Kingston council set to establish £38m trading company
Sutton and Kingston councils are considering setting up a jointly
owned company to manage £38m of shared services. Finance, customer service and
town planning departments are set to merged by the two authorities, which
already share IT, transports, legal and waste disposal staff. Read more >>>
Brent Council teams up with Harrow and Buckinghamshire in £8m ‘sharing scheme’
A shared service between Brent, Harrow and Buckinghamshire
councils to provide a “Procurement Shared Service” (PPS) was agreed at a
cabinet meeting on Monday. Read more >>>
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SSA's "Elephant In The Room" (EITR) sessions
help you tackle the key issues around shared services and collaborative working.
Elephant In The Room 1: Successful shared service
working requires skilled, united, project service teams, however this
is often ignored by the leadership.
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Building the effectiveness of Collaboration or
Shared Service teams
One-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days). This facilitated workshop draws on tools, templates and techniques to help you create and glue together effective cross-partner project teams. These teams could be working together for months, or even years, to come and must be built on solid foundations.
One-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days). This facilitated workshop draws on tools, templates and techniques to help you create and glue together effective cross-partner project teams. These teams could be working together for months, or even years, to come and must be built on solid foundations.
Elephant In
The Room 2: Shared service projects that do not have dedicated
marketing budgets or marketing strategies are more likely to fail to deliver.
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Effective communications in Collaboration or Shared
Service working
One-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
This new collaborative communications toolkit and one-day workshop maps the communications strategy against the steps in the collaborative transformation journey. It will support the growing number of Communications and Project Managers who have limited resource and no formal training in multi-partner, multi-stakeholder communications. Why not bring a group of up to 10 local project managers and comms managers together to share the cost?
One-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
This new collaborative communications toolkit and one-day workshop maps the communications strategy against the steps in the collaborative transformation journey. It will support the growing number of Communications and Project Managers who have limited resource and no formal training in multi-partner, multi-stakeholder communications. Why not bring a group of up to 10 local project managers and comms managers together to share the cost?
Elephant In
The Room 3: Shared services that are set up without understanding the mistakes
others have made are doomed to repeat those mistakes and lose money and
velocity in delivery.
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What could possibly go wrong in Collaboration or
Shared Service Projects?
Half- or one-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
SSA has unpacked seven NAO, Local Government and Health Sector reviews of failed collaboration projects, so that your leadership and project team can identify if you are on the same path to failure, or can you learn from them to avoid the same £multi-million mistakes? The session will help you shape the direction of your collaboration for 2016.
Half- or one-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
SSA has unpacked seven NAO, Local Government and Health Sector reviews of failed collaboration projects, so that your leadership and project team can identify if you are on the same path to failure, or can you learn from them to avoid the same £multi-million mistakes? The session will help you shape the direction of your collaboration for 2016.
Elephant In
The Room 4: Most collaborations fail because leaders focus on the
deal on the table and not the relationships with each other.
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75% relationships and only 25% the deal: Building
the relationships between Devolution, Collaboration or Shared Service leaders
Half- or one-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
These successful facilitated meeting sessions for Devolution, Collaboration or Shared Service boards work to build trust and balance the relationships that will make their collaborative leadership more effective. These can be tough, complex, adult sessions for all those involved, but the breakthroughs in relationship and trust can be the deal-changer for the partners.
Half- or one-day, facilitated in-house session: Fee £1,900+vat (including preparation days)
These successful facilitated meeting sessions for Devolution, Collaboration or Shared Service boards work to build trust and balance the relationships that will make their collaborative leadership more effective. These can be tough, complex, adult sessions for all those involved, but the breakthroughs in relationship and trust can be the deal-changer for the partners.
Email
me if you would like more details of any of these Elephant In The Room
sessions: Dominic.Wallace@sharedservicearchitects.co.uk.
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