Plenty of news and jobs for you in the newsletter this week. The predicted devolution project adverts are beginning to pop up too – very much in your zone of skills if you are a recognised Collaborative Transformation Practitioner or Architect.
There are still a few days left to register your council’s shared service so it appears on the LGA Shared Service Map 2016 at http://www.sharedservicearchitects.co.uk/LGA-Map-2016 or we can do it over the phone in about 10 minutes if that would help. Over 90% of councils, and over 300 shared services they are involved in, have been registered or updated by the sector over the last eight weeks. The map will be published in the spring.
Our “elephant in the room” sessions (see below) have proved very popular. Email me for an informal chat if you would like to know more about how they can accelerate your projects.
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Devolution
Devolution ‘could herald expansion of early intervention approaches’
Devolution could free local authorities to develop early
intervention and prevention services that make greater use of social
investment, a senior third sector figure has told Public Finance. Read more >>>
Devolution deal for Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to get first full council airing at County Hall
Chancellor George Osborne announced in last month’s budget that an
Eastern Powerhouse would be created, with a draft devolution deal on the table
for the three counties. Read more >>>
Talks on 'flawed' plans for directly-elected mayor continue
Councillors have voted for negotiations to continue over plans for
three counties in East Anglia to have an elected mayor with devolved powers. Read more >>>
Ruth Davidson: Tay city deal money is on the table
UK Government money is on the table for a multi-million-pound city
deal and it’s up to local councils to bring the cash to Tayside, Ruth Davidson
has claimed. Read more >>>
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Local
Government
Council pension funds get go-ahead to pool assets
Two local government pension schemes are due to join forces after
they got approval to pool their assets by the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA). Read more >>>
Councils urged to apply for One Public Estate funding
Councils are being urged to apply for up to £500,000 funding to
deliver property-based transformation initiatives. Read more >>>
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Health
& Social Care
We're really excited: Big buzz for Manchester's new Health and Wellbeing Service
One of only five combined mental health and social care Trusts in
England and Wales, buzz has
been implemented to improve the health of people in Manchester. Read more >>>
Health devolution deal is a key moment for Manchester – and England
Manchester is becoming master of its own destiny with a new
“united” approach to health and social care. Read more >>>
Council boss takes on second job managing NHS service but won't add to £124k pay
A Kirklees Council health boss is set to take over the running of
an NHS service on top of his council duties. Read more >>>
Former health secretary to oversee five-year health and social care blueprint
In a move that signals the launch of a radically new approach and
partnership, the former Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell has been appointed as
independent chair of the board that will oversee the delivery of a five-year
blueprint to transform health and social care in Birmingham and Solihull. Read more >>>
WEARSIDE MATTERS – A year of success for trailblazing care programme
A pioneering health and social programme that is transforming care
in Sunderland is celebrating success, one-year in. Read more >>>
Lincolnshire to integrate health and social care data
County care teams to make use of Intersystems platform for sharing
information between different agencies. Read more >>>
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Blue
Light Services
Sharing Cheshire fire chief is another cut to Cumbria service, says union leader
The advent of a “shared” chief officer for Cumbria has been
described as yet another “attack” on the service. Read more >>>
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Housing
Leading Housing Associations call for close working relationships with new Scottish health and social care boards
Three of Scotland’s leading housing associations, Bield, Hanover
(Scotland) and Trust Housing Associations, have combined to write to all of the
newly established integrated joint health and social care boards in Scotland…Read more >>>
L&Q, The Hyde Group and East Thames to merge
Stronger
together – new organisation to deliver 100,000 new homes. Making a real
difference to the housing crisis in London and the South East. Read more
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