Visit http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com for more rss feeds. http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/CoreCode/rss/rssdisplay.aspx en-gb Copyright http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com, 2020 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:42:38 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 15 The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on Government to continue to support councils to invest in long-term measures in order to tackle the issue of air pollution, following analysis by the Office for National Statistics into links between air pollution and Covid-19. According to Cllr Darren Rodwell, Transport Spokesperson for... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:15:00 GMT Words provided by Cantium Business Solutions, editorially reviewed by Public Sector Executive    Who can automate back-office processes for our local authority? #CantiumCan Cantium Business Solutions is a Crown Commercial Services supplier on the government’s G-Cloud 11 procurement framework. Our team has a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,438,439,2998,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:45:00 GMT On this week’s episode of Public Sector Voices, Emily is joined by the Director of National Innovation Centre for Data, Steve Caughey, to highlight the potential of using data to it’s full potential within the public sector and beyond. At less than two years old, the centre is at the start of its journey to equip the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:15:00 GMT The Government announced a range of support measures for councils yesterday (July 2), including £500m in additional funding, payment deferral, and 75p compensation for every pound lost over 5% of planned income. Since the announcement, local authorities have been reacting to the news, welcoming the cash injection but expressing... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:00:00 GMT An additional £500m funding package and further support for Councils has been announced today (July 2) by Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick. The new support will help local authorities to cover income lost during the pandemic, relieve spending pressures and plug any financial holes than have emerged over recent... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:30:00 GMT Sir Richard Leese, long-standing leader of Manchester City Council joins Public Sector Voices host, Emily Rodgers to discuss the events throughout his 24-year reign and the future landscape of the city. It is a task that is still ongoing, but rebuilding Manchester up from where is was all those years ago has taken the industrial city... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:30:00 GMT Content provided by Avoira, editorally reviewed by Public Sector Executive  Avoira to help manage the return to work and life with temperature detection solutions Technology solutions specialist Avoira has launched a range of smart temperature detection camera packages to help public sector organisations, combat the spread of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:15:00 GMT CASE STUDY: A primary schools perspective of going into coronavirus lockdown  Our Lady Of Walsingham R C Primary School Clare Johanson As the parent support advisor and schools safeguard lead I work closely with all our vulnerable families or those families who just need a little extra support. As daily contact via school... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:45:00 GMT Content provided by TechnologyOne, editorially reviewed by Public Sector Executive. A CEO’s perspective  Andrew Grant, former CEO of Aylesbury Vale District Council, often questions whether digital transformation even exists at a local government level. I recently invited Andrew to share his unique perspective on... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,452,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 11:15:00 GMT In this week’s episode, Lord Robert Kerslake joined host Emily Rodgers to discuss the recent UK2070 Commission on levelling up UK towns and cities. He has been listed as one of the most influential people in the public sector thanks to his services to Local Government that span from Council Chief Executive to President of the Local... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 28 May 2020 12:00:00 GMT Content provided by Nextivity, Editorially reviewed by Public Sector Executive Colin Abrey of Nextivity explains why uninterrupted 4G coverage in public sector buildings cannot wait As Covid19 lingers on relentlessly mobile telecoms and home broadband services are providing society with some semblance of normality. Everyday life... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 28 May 2020 11:30:00 GMT Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Schools and Families at Bury Council Cllr Tamoor Tariq has addressed the headteachers in the area with his position regarding Central Government’s arrangements for re-opening schools. The letter starts by thanking staff members at Bury council for their ‘unswerving... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,453,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 18 May 2020 16:15:00 GMT Leaders of the biggest councils in England have called for a ‘£5bn income guarantee’ from Government to help them make it through the crisis period. Local authorities are at risk of having to declare insolvency as the pandemic continues and more pressure is put on the delivery of public services, and feel an... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 18 May 2020 09:45:00 GMT Longstanding membership association for the public sector and civil service workers, Boundless, is giving away 10,000 film codes from steaming platform Chili for public service workers. The film codes are worth £10 each, giving the total gesture a value of £100,000. It comes as a thank you for front line public service workers... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 06 May 2020 15:15:00 GMT 10,000 local councils across England have stepped up to support their communities through the coronavirus crisis. The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has commended England’s 10,000 local councils for their vital role during this pandemic. Local councils, including parish and town councils have stepped up to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,438,870,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 08:45:00 GMT Sponsored Content - Source: PSE April/May   You might think that the move to electric vehicles is a new phenomenon; a novel idea to support the recent commitments to net zero carbon or a response to council’s declaring a climate emergency. You’d be wrong. BMW unveiled its first battery electric vehicle at... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,438,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:00:00 GMT The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced a further £1.6bn to support councils through this pandemic. Announced on Saturday (Apr 18) by Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, the extra £1.6bn will be delivered to councils across England to respond to the coronavirus crisis as they support local... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,870,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:30:00 GMT The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has announced (Apr 14) that they are funding a new programme aimed at giving local people the skills needed to start a new career in construction. The innovative programme has moved online for the first time, in order to continue training people as current Government restrictions require people... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:00:00 GMT Source: PSE April/May By Stephen Buckley, Head of Information at Mind The past few weeks have been unprecedented for us all. The arrival of coronavirus in the UK has meant that, for the vast majority of us, our way of life has changed. Change isn’t easy for most people, and it can be especially difficult for the one in four of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:30:00 GMT A new partnership between NHSX and technology firms is helping vulnerable care home residents to connect with their loved ones during this period of isolation. The ability to communicate with friends and family can provide vital emotional support to those currently living in isolation. The Government has announced today (Apr 9) that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,870,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:00:00 GMT Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham announced today (Apr 8) in his weekly virtual press conference his plans to provide free tram travel for NHS staff and social care workers, as a thank you for their service during the coronavirus outbreak. According to the Mayor, he had been lobbied by MPs from across GM to provide the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:45:00 GMT The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a £1m fund today (Apr 8) to ‘fast-track innovation’ in helping the Armed Forces in the fight against coronavirus. The opportunity, launched with support from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), is open to any new idea or approach that could... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,438,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:15:00 GMT The Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council, Cllr Sue Murphy CBE died yesterday (Apr 7) at the age of 59, following an ongoing illness. She was first elected to the City Council in 1995, and had served as Executive Member for Employment and Skills and Executive Member for Finance, before becoming Deputy Leader in 2010, a position she... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:15:00 GMT Nottingham City Council is recruiting 1,600 new care workers to support vulnerable people in the community during the coronavirus crisis. The Council is calling on people in its region to come forward and take on a new role as an essential care worker as pressure on public services continues to rise. Those who are elderly, vulnerable... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,870,446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:15:00 GMT A new Procurement Policy Note (PPN) has been published by the Cabinet Office to further protect suppliers during and after the coronavirus outbreak. Under this new PPN, contracting authorities must take action with immediate effect to ensure suppliers at risk can continue normal operations once the outbreak is over. Suppliers at risk... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,436,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:15:00 GMT The Government has announced a £3.25m fund to support organisations redistributing food across England during the coronavirus outbreak. The funding will be used to help redistribute up to 14,000 tonnes of surplus stock and minimise food waste during this crisis. Logistical barriers with obtaining, storing and transporting food... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT A newly streamlined, Government-backed certification scheme for cyber security was launched this week (Apr 1) by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The ‘new look’ Cyber Essentials Scheme will be delivered to protect organisations from cyber threats and create clear guidance to respond effectively to cyber... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,439,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:30:00 GMT The District Councils’ Network (DCN) has issued a warning of a ‘wave of waste’ to come after concerns of ‘spiralling’ household waste in light of the coronavirus outbreak. Local councils are expecting a spike in household rubbish as waste collection workforce is limited due to self-isolation. Councils... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:15:00 GMT More than £20m has been delivered to businesses in the Bradford area through the Government’s Small Business Grant Fund. Yesterday (Apr 1) saw one-off grants of £10,000 delivered to over 2,000 businesses to help them to survive this economically unstable period of time as the country tackles the coronavirus... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:15:00 GMT Teesside University has joined forces with the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority to deliver a package of practical support for local businesses during the coronavirus emergency. A coordinated approach to tackling the economic impact on the region’s businesses will be taken by the new collaboration, along with a number of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,453,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/Mar Dr Melanie Smans is Economic Development Manager at South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils   The South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils Business and Innovation Strategy Action Plan 2016-2020 highlights the importance of providing support to people who wish... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT In addition to their role responding to core emergencies, Firefighters will be able to deliver food and medicines, drive ambulances and retrieve dead bodies to provide additional support during the coronavirus crisis. A new and unprecedented agreement between the Fire Brigade Union (FBU), fire chiefs and Fire and Rescue Employers confirms... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446,440,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:00:00 GMT The Home Office has announced today (Mar 26) that new powers have been bestowed upon the UK police force to deal with the response to coronavirus. It comes in a bid to ensure people stay at home, and in doing so protect the NHS and save countless lives. The new powers, which come into effect from today will support police by allowing... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:30:00 GMT The Local Government Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP has announced today (Mar 24) the confirmation of a £500m Hardship Fund that will provide council tax relief to those most affected by coronavirus. Vulnerable households who would otherwise struggle to pay council tax will be supported by the new package of funding announced... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:00:00 GMT As the country, and indeed the world cease operations to tackle this pandemic, public services must continue, and arguably now more than ever - so must public procurement. Last week, the government made it easier than ever to facilitate the procurement of goods and services in order to allow emergency contracts to be awarded without the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:45:00 GMT The government has announced today (Mar 18) a change in their approach to the procurement of goods and services amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with immediate effect. In order to procure goods, services and works with extreme urgency during this time of crisis when the supply chain is disrupted, the government has permitted various new... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20 Stephen Bahooshy, Senior Commissioning Manager and Nicky Selwyn, Carer and Service User Group Chair, Croydon Council.   Here it is, that age old question: What came first, the bad customer or the bad customer service? (Or maybe we just made that up, whatever). But it’s true though, right? We... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,452,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:00:00 GMT Our tenth PSE Podcast takes us on the go to Leeds Civil Hall where we speak with Leeds City Council Leader Judith Blake. A real whistle-stop tour of the work being done in the North and specifically Leeds. Council Leader Judith Blake joins hosts Emily Rodgers and Matt Roberts for the tenth PSE podcast. Recorded in Leeds Civic Hall... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,2899,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:30:00 GMT Last week saw the highly-anticipated EvoNorth event take place in Manchester. Amid Coronavirus fears, disruption and cancelled events, hundreds of public and private sector leaders vowed to keep their hands clean and their minds open for two days of immersive collaboration. With the impressive backdrop of Emirates Old Trafford... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2899,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20   Rachael Morgan is the Procurement Manager at the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), and has been dealing with the organisation’s procurement for over nine years. PSE’s Emily Rodgers spoke to her at the recent National Social Value Conference about how social value has evolved in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,870,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20 A free government whitepaper sets out nine simple steps to successful technology buying for the public sector. Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Technology Solutions document tackles the purchase of both hardware and network services. Reliable and secure online services, telephone contacts, email... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,438,439,446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:30:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20 Mary Lanigan, Council Leader for Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council Steel has been the lifeblood of generations in Redcar and Cleveland. We like to tell everyone we meet that our steel built the world; it’s not wholly true, but our steel did build many of the world’s great bridges... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,438,446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20  Matt Spencer, Head of Public Sector at O2, spoke with PSE’s Matt Roberts about how the public sector is lighting the way in digital transformation and innovation.   Where is ‘innovation’ truly happening? For some, the word conjures up locations prefixed by... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:15:00 GMT Source: PSE Feb/March 20 Cllr Sean Fielding, Leader of Oldham Council, explains their newly-announced ambitious development plan for Oldham and what it will mean for the local area.   In January 2020 Oldham Council launched an ambitious plan to transform Oldham, including creating more than 2,000 new homes in the town... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,2899,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:30:00 GMT Our first podcast episode with two guests took us on the road to the TfGM offices where we spoke to two representatives from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Chief Executive Eamonn Boylan and Andrew Lightfoot, Strategic Director – Public Service Reform. With hosts Ailsa Cowen and Matt Roberts, the discussion flowed from... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,2899,442,870,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:30:00 GMT The government has published a number of measures to encourage people to opt for cycling and walking, including highlighting positive outcomes of successful programmes, extension of the Access Fund and plans of cycle training for every child in England. Plans have been revealed to invest £22m over the next year into active travel... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,437,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:00:00 GMT Yesterday (Feb 6) Waverley Borough Council’s Executive unanimously approved the draft budget scheduled for presentation at the Full Council meeting on 18 February. The draft budget sees council tax rise with inflation by 1.9%, allowing the council £378,000 in extra income compared to last year. In addition to this... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:45:00 GMT The Department for Education has today (Feb 5) committed to a multi-million pound investment into Further Education (FE) to recruit train and develop the workforce and boost skills and opportunities in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williams made the announcement today as part of an additional £400m investment into education for... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:00:00 GMT Grant Peggie, Director at British Business Bank Launched by British Business Bank in 2017, the £400m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is supporting economic prosperity in the region by making commercial investments into growing companies. Helping to create a more diverse finance market is a key objective of the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,2899,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:30:00 GMT The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), a membership body representing around 90% of housing providers across the North of England, has today (Jan 15) become the latest member of the Northern Powerhouse Partner Programme. The Northern Powerhouse is a government vision for a connected and thriving North, able to compete and contribute to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,2899,441,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:30:00 GMT Source PSE: Dec 19/Jan 20 Cllr Kye Dudd Bristol has always been a city with sustainability at its heart. In November 2018, we were the first UK city to declare a climate emergency and, since then, we’ve begun to build environmental initiatives into our daily lives. When I took on the responsibility for transport at Bristol... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,437,438,446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:00:00 GMT Source PSE: Dec 19/Jan 2020   Mark Lynam is a Board Member of the Institute of Economic Development, and Director of Transport, Housing and Infrastructure in Sheffield City Region’s Executive Team. We need a new paradigm for economic development within local and regional government – one which addresses issues... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,438,2899,446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:45:00 GMT Denise Park, Chief Executive of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, chats to PSE about the risk of smaller towns getting left behind on the Northern Powerhouse agenda. For Northern Council’s it’s really important to raise the profile of the North and rebalance investment to all parts of the country. What I’d like to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:30:00 GMT Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall Council Portfolio Holder for Climate Change and Neighbourhoods, Cornwall Council As one of the country’s first local authorities to have produced a detailed action plan in response to the climate emergency, we have already started working towards our ambition to help Cornwall become carbon neutral by... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20 The Local Government Association (LGA) discusses upskilling and retraining staff in public sector workplace. As leaders of place, councils and combined authorities want to work with partners across the piste to build strong, resilient economies with a shared vision for their local area and where residents... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,436,446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:00:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20   Pippa Coutts, Carnegie UK Trust Carnegie UK Trust has been promoting wellbeing in the UK and Ireland for over one hundred years. The results of a survey the Trust conducted with IPSOS Mori in 2018 reveal that two in five people live in towns, across the UK and Ireland. Despite this number of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:30:00 GMT Tony Oakman, chief executive of Bolton Council spoke to PSE about the Northern Powerhouse and the key priorities he’s like to see from central government. From my perspective I think the Northern Powerhouse is significant to say the least in terms of the profile of Northern authorities and opportunities for economic growth across... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20   Matthew Fell CBI Chief UK Policy Director from Whitehall to townhalls, from head office to high street shops Speaking to businesses across the North there’s enormous pride and enthusiasm for its potential. However, after a prolonged period of uncertainty which is harming investor... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:15:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec19/Jan 20   Stephen Garthwaite, headteacher, Ysgol y Grango In November Ysgol y Grango, the secondary school in Rhosllanerchrugog in Wrexham of which I am headteacher, hosted the launch of the Stop School Hunger / Dysgu Nid Llwgu campaign.  We’re a member of the award-winning community organising... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:45:00 GMT Becca Heron, director of Economy and Skills at Wigan Council spoke to PSE about the Northern Powerhouse and why transport links and skills are key to transforming the North. The Northern Powerhouse is extraordinarily important, the UK has got one of the most centralised governments and economies and the North has been subject to massive... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:15:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20 Carol Matthews - Chief Executive of The Riverside Group and Chair to H4N – ‘Homes for the North’ Good quality homes are the bedrock of a strong economy and thriving communities yet, across the North, not enough homes are being built.  Improving the supply and quality of homes in the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2899,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Dec/Jan 2020   Neil Harrison, category manager – technology solutions, Crown Commercial Service Crown Commercial Service is the largest public sector procurement organisation in the UK, with thousands of customers in a range of sectors. We are privileged to have so many that are engaged in what we do, and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:00:00 GMT Oxford City Council’s Cabinet has responded to the Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change, outlining its next steps and allocating £19m to become a Zero Carbon Council and city. The Council has published a report in response to the Assembly committing to becoming a net zero Council in 2020. The £19m investment... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,437,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:30:00 GMT In light of the recent one per cent hike in the interest rate offered by the Public Works Loan Board to local councils, an alternative source of economical funding is desperately needed. The UK Municipal Bonds Agency recently appointed PFM Financial Advisors with a clear remit to focus on structuring the UKMBA’s offering providing a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 09:00:00 GMT Every day you and your teams play a vital role in delivering transformational public services to millions of citizens. These public services help save lives, provide care for vulnerable children, put roofs over millions of heads and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s an unprecedented landscape for politics at present and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:00:00 GMT The recent PSE Webinar in London, in partnership with Phoenix, saw five industry leaders take a deep dive into the profound effect digital technology is having on the public sector. Nadira Hussain, director of Leadership Development and Research at SOCITM was featured in the webinar line up on Nov 27th along with other members of key... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:30:00 GMT The Social Value Act was implemented in January 2013, during which time many things have changed for the better. However, many organisations are still struggling to carry out requirements of the Act. The good news is that real leadership is emerging across all sectors, with innovators delivering more and better value for their communities... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,2899,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:45:00 GMT South Tyneside Council leader Iain Malcolm spoke with Emily Rodgers for the new PSE podcast about the council’s green agenda and plans for the future. Like many UK councils, South Tyneside Council has signed up to the climate emergency agenda and now has officers working on developing more sustainable initiatives for the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:15:00 GMT South Tyneside Council leader Iain Malcolm spoke with Emily Rodgers for the new PSE podcast about how he found a solution for his residents in the face of budget cuts. Iain Malcolm has been a member of South Tyneside council since 1988 and leader for the past ten years. Over that time, he has seen the budgets cut “systematically... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:15:00 GMT Seven government departments are set to benefit from a £100m, three-year contract extension signed with Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL), in partnership with the Government Shared Services (GSS), continuing to provide a range of critical business services. As part of the agreement to extend SSCL’s existing contract... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:30:00 GMT Today (Nov 3rd) Housing Minister Esther McVey unveiled £30 million boost for this ‘Construction Corridor’ The government are creating a new industry that will create jobs and career opportunities for a new workforce by delivering Carbon Free Homes. A £30 million boost from the government is being put into... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:00:00 GMT The recently appointed minister for prevention, public health and primary care, Jo Churchill, looks towards a more predictive and preventative public health system. This is an exciting time to be a health minister in this government. This statement may surprise many of you given the continuing twists, turns and distractions in Westminster... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:00:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Hannah Buckley, operations supervisor at Kent County Council, talks about the council’s strategy and transformative approach in responding to the challenges and timeframe of the Department for Transport’s new Blue Badge digital process. As a local authority, we are continually looking... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:00:00 GMT Stephanie Riches, Co-ordinator of the People’s Powerhouse, joins us in the studio for our very first PSE podcast, giving a deep dive into her new role, diversity and inclusion in the public sector and the People’s Powerhouse Charter, rounded off with a Manchester quiz!   With hosts Emily Rodgers and Matt Roberts, the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Dr Neil Thorpe, Dr Lee Fawcett, Matt Linsley and Brett Cherry, from Newcastle University, discuss sustainably and efficiently improving road safety in the UK. In the UK, over 80% of passenger miles are by car, van or taxi. But automobile transport, despite its numerous privileges and conveniences... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT Source PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Peter O’Driscoll, managing director of RingGo, discusses how technology can play a role in creating a modern city. The UK’s cities are becoming increasingly diverse with varying ages, genders, ethnicities and income levels combining to create modern cities, but constantly evolving... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:30:00 GMT Source : PSE Oct/Nov 2019   The mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, explains why the city has submitted a bid to Boris Johnson’s new Government for a ‘Green City Deal’. In Liverpool Town Hall recently, city councillors from all parties declared a climate change emergency and set an ambitious target to become... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:30:00 GMT Source : PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Bill Walker, director of strategic relationships & knowledge exchange at the University of Hull, discusses an exciting new collaboration between the universities of the North as they aim to create a Northern Powerhouse alliance leading the country in science, research and clean... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:30:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019   PSE sits down with Britain’s newest metro mayor, Jamie Driscoll, to discuss his plans for the North of Tyne, devolution, and the Northern Powerhouse. Jamie Driscoll, the mayor of North of Tyne Riding on the back of a “once-in-a-generation” devolution deal worth £600m... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:00:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019   PSE sat down with the esteemed Debbie Jones, the director of children’s services at Tower Hamlets Council, to discuss how she led the jump from an ‘Inadequate’ Ofsted rating to a ‘remarkable’ ‘Good’ rating. “We were in February 2017 when the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:00:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Heather Scott OBE, Tees Valley Combined Authority cabinet lead for transport, explains how the combined authority and partners are looking to improve transport infrastructure in the Tees Valley. An efficient, reliable and affordable transport network can easily be taken for granted by those who... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT Parmjit Chahal, head of children’s access at Harrow Council, explains how a quick, dignified new fingerprint drug test is proving important in building a more open, trusting relationship with parents. Harrow children’s services, like many local authorities, work hard to identify parental drug use at an early stage in order to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:00:00 GMT Phil Swan, chief information officer for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), discusses exciting new collaborations in the region aimed at joining up vital public services and empowering people to live well. Greater Manchester’s (GM’s) councils, NHS organisations and other public bodies are working together to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Source : PSE Oct/Nov 2019   Terence Smith, head of global growth at JCB Power Products, discusses the UK’s power failure on 9 August 2019 and how they are looking to help ensure similar situations don’t occur again. The Guardian newspaper described the recent UK power outage as a “rude awakening,”... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:00:00 GMT Source: PSE Oct/Nov 2019    Chris Painter, professor emeritus at Birmingham City University, appraises a momentous period in British politics from the May 2019 elections through to the precipice of a possible disorderly Brexit. The 2019 local elections in England, immediately followed by the UK European elections, took... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:00:00 GMT Source: PSE: Oct/Nov 19   Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, explains her manifesto to ensure the country’s next generation get the childhood they need to prosper as adults. Today’s children are our future economic prosperity, our tax payers and wealth producers, and our future... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:45:00 GMT Source: PSE: Oct/Nov 19   Dr Anna Dixon, the chief executive of Centre for Ageing Better, explains why the Future High Streets Fund is a vital opportunity to rebuild our town centres for everyone. Over the summer, the Government announced a raft of towns and cities set to benefit from the Future High Streets Fund, launched... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:45:00 GMT Source: PSE: Oct/Nov 19   Rob Webster, CEO lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership & CEO for South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, explains how advancing health tech innovation means working together to deliver for the economy and for patients. In August, we were delighted to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:30:00 GMT The new chairman of the Local Government Association, Cllr James Jamieson, discusses devolution, the latest Spending Round and being a national mouthpiece for local government with PSE’s Jamie Bennett-Ness. James Jamieson, first elected to Central Bedfordshire Council in 2009, has risen through the ranks of local government over the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, explains how the city council has been leading the way with combating climate change and achieving carbon neutral goals. In November 2018, Bristol became the first UK city council to declare a climate emergency, highlighting the action we were taking as a council, and a city, on climate change. Our... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:00:00 GMT Iron Mountain Solutions Now Available on Digital Outcomes and Specialists 4 (DOS-4) Digital Marketplace Framework Expands Iron Mountain’s Offering for Public Sector Customer Iron Mountain has announced that its information management and digital transformation solutions are now available through the Government’s latest Digital... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:30:00 GMT Debbie Dore, chief executive of the Association for Project Management, discusses the impact that the establishment of the Infrastructure and Project Authority will have. Government, like the rest of the economy and society, is increasingly delivering change via projects. Given the scale of project activity, it is vital that this is... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Director of people transformation at Companies House, Angela Lewis, describes how the organisation is putting people at the centre of its transformation programme as it looks to adapt to meet future challenges. The reason why transformation programmes often fail is because organisations do not consider the people element in enough detail.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT Leah Fletcher, commercial agreement manager - Education Technology for the Crown Commercial Service, explains the process behind creating a bespoke technology agreement for the education sector. When our successful ICT Services for Education agreement reached the end of its lifespan, we at Crown Commercial Service (CCS) wanted to ensure... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:30:00 GMT Nigel Wilcock, executive director of the Institute of Economic Development, outlines what can be done to address and combat regional imbalances in the UK economy. In the midst of continuing uncertainty in Westminster, one potentially important development that may have gone unnoticed at a local level is the cross-party Treasury Committee... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:00:00 GMT The Health Foundation has today (Oct 16) urged government to consider policy changes to housing, transport and education after new report shows a risk to the future of young people. The report, A heathy foundation for the future, calls for a whole government approach to protect the future health of young people. Included in the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,441,870,446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:00:00 GMT This week, on National Adoption Week (October 14-21), Buckinghamshire County Council is launching a new ‘Adoption Ready’ tool that helps people see if they are suitable to become adoptive parents. People tend to wrongly assume their eligibility to adopt. This could be due to age, financial situation, orientation or... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:45:00 GMT A new set of figures have been announced today (Friday 11) to outline how schools are to benefit from Government’s £14bn education investment. UK schools will receive details of how they are going to benefit after it is announced that every school across the country will get more money for every child. Every secondary... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:45:00 GMT Teacher’s working hours have fallen by an average of five hours a week compared to 2016, as they spend less time on things other than teaching. Research published today (11 Oct) has revealed that teachers are working five hours a week less than they were three years ago. The second Teacher Workload Survey saw over 7,000... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:00:00 GMT GOV.UK has today announced that its messaging service Notify, is on track to save taxpayers an average of £35m a year over the next five years. The government run messaging service was designed to provide a simple line of communication between people and the government. The service is used by many organisations, with the most... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:15:00 GMT Foehn discuss with Public Sector Executive how they go about addressing the unique challenges of presenting an appealing communications system setup for public sector clients.   Over the past twenty years, we’ve worked with organisations of all types across both private and public sectors. From accountants to zoos, we’ve... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:15:00 GMT Rob Whiteman, CEO at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance (CIPFA), discusses the benefits of long-term preventative investment. Rising demand, reducing resource – this has been the rolling landscape of the public sector for the past few years. In this context, it can be difficult to justify allocating limited resources to spend... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 450,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT With £1bn available to solve the area's traffic issues, Debbie Wilcox, leader of Newport City Council, discusses balancing improvements to the M4 motorway with the interests of Newport itself. Newport occupies a critical position as the gateway to South Wales, but its position on the M4 creates both opportunities and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT With the new Sheffield City Region Integrated Rail Plan joining the region's official Transport Strategy this summer, Dan Jarvis, mayor of Sheffield City Region, discusses his exciting plans for transforming transport in South Yorkshire. Despite the uncertainties of Brexit, here in South Yorkshire we stand at the edge of a hugely... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Andrew Smith, Crown Commercial Service category lead - technology solutions, talks about how the CCS can support the development of smart cities and help modernise public sector procurement practices. The smart city agenda promises much. Technologically-driven improvements might benefit citizens’ health, their daily commute, their... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 05 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Cllr Adrian Gulvin, Medway Council’s portfolio holder for resources, outlines why the local authority in the south-east has invested £35m in a town centre shopping centre. Medway is currently undergoing a significant transformation thanks to our monumental 20-year regeneration programme, and has become the biggest regeneration... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:00:00 GMT Tony Armstrong, chief executive of Locality, argues why we must move away from the scale and standardisation of public services and instead ‘Keep it Local’ to prosper from community collaboration. We are nearly a decade into a deep austerity programme of which councils have shouldered the heaviest burden. Now, coupled with... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Theresa Grant, chief executive of Northamptonshire County Council, shares the authority’s remarkable journey from financial crisis to delivering a balanced budget, and discusses the road still ahead. The story of the demise of Northamptonshire County Council dominated local government media and indeed the national media for much of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Something is stirring in the north of England. Philip Jackson, leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, explains what’s occurring and how it’s caught the eye of Government and the private sector. Around 8,800 new jobs and 10,000 new homes. £88m combined public sector investment already. Impressive statistics in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:30:00 GMT Mark O’Reilly, project director at Bolton College of Medical Sciences (BCMS), discusses how the local partnership is setting out to train the next generation with the use of a new £30m vocational training centre. A recent report, published by The Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation and King's Fund, suggests that current trends... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Debbie Rayfield, corporate apprenticeship manager at Sefton Council, discusses her role within the council’s Apprenticeship Team and the challenges that can be faced meeting the targets of the Apprenticeship Levy. I initially joined the Apprenticeship Team in 2016 on a secondment from Personnel and the team had been delivering a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:00:00 GMT Anwen Robinson, UK Operating Officer at TechnologyOne - an enterprise SaaS company - explains why adopting an enterprise vision is key to long-term benefit Local government transformation is primarily driven by the need to find efficiencies and ultimately improve organisational resilience in a difficult economic climate. But... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:45:00 GMT Simon Tse, chief executive of the Crown Commercial Service, discusses how the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK is changing. For some time the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the trading fund of the Cabinet Office, rightly focused its attention on best value and ensuring agreements were compliant. But now we’re... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:30:00 GMT Is austerity really over? Even if it is, that doesn’t mark the end of shared services for local government. Anwen Robinson, UK Operating Officer at TechnologyOne explains. In the 2018 Autumn statement, chancellor Philip Hammond announced the “end of austerity” and trumpeted the recovery in public finances... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:00:00 GMT INVESTMENT in East Sussex has been credited for the creation of more than 2,000 jobs in the last five years. East Sussex County Council worked with partners to secure more than £600 million in capital investment since launching a growth strategy for the county in 2014. The investment, which could see the creation of a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:15:00 GMT The Environment Agency is starting work on a new £25 million flood risk management scheme which will help protect more than 1,600 homes and businesses in Cumbria. Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, has officially marked the occasion with the first spade in the ground at Walkmill Crescent, near Botcherby... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:00:00 GMT Anwen Robinson, UK operating officer at TechnologyOne celebrates a decade of shared service agreements and the savings they have brought to UK local government. Over £1.34 billion in cumulative efficiency savings has been made from 626 shared service arrangements across the country, according to the Local Government... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:00:00 GMT Communities across Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall and central England are to be protected against the impact of flooding after almost £3 million of government investment. Following a competitive evaluation process, three projects have been chosen to receive up to £700,000 each to boost research into property-level measures... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,443,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:45:00 GMT Innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be used to help improve the condition of local roads, following the announcement of DfT funding announced totalling £2 million to develop the most thorough understanding ever of Britain’s road markings. By analysing the quality of near 100,000 miles of road, the department... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:30:00 GMT Housing Minister Kit Malthouse has vowed to support a new economic plan to boost innovation and maximise opportunities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The locally-developed plan sets out how the area will take full advantage of its global assets and maximise economic opportunities in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. Mr Malthouse... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:30:00 GMT Rafael Cortes, head of marketing at Foehn, reviews the success of G-Cloud and what the most recent iteration offers the future. Even the best of relationships can go through a ‘six-year patch’. Not so at Foehn. To the contrary, I’m pleased to say that our six-year relationship with G-Cloud is stronger than ever, with no... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 08:30:00 GMT The County Councils Network (CCN) has announced today that councillor David Williams has been elected leader of the Conservative group for the network, and will now be chairman elect for the organisation. This follows a leadership contest between Cllr Williams, who is leader of Hertfordshire County Council, and Cllr Philip Atkins, leader... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:15:00 GMT Executive director of the Institute of Economic Development, Nigel Wilcock, argues that the UK Shared Prosperity Fund should address imbalances in localities that affect prosperity. Whilst government may have missed its latest deadline for publishing the promised consultation on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), we reached out to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:00:00 GMT A report by Circle Economy shows that cities which encourage circular economy practises, such as repairing and recycling, bring in investment and new jobs. The analysis explores how local authorities in 43 European cities support the circular economy, and found that it creates “tangible socio-economic benefits” for cities and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,433,437,438,446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:30:00 GMT For decades, successive governments have sought to ensure taxpayers’ money is spent in the most effective and most efficient ways possible. Dr Joshua Pritchard, researcher at Reform - the independent public services think tank – talks social value and efficiency. Shortly before Labour resoundingly won a second successive... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:30:00 GMT Councils across the UK are sharing services to cut down on costs that save the taxpayer over £1.3bn, a report from council leader shows. The Local Government Association (LGA) hailed the initiative from 626 partnerships as a success. Lord Porter, LGA Chairman, said: “Councils have embraced efficiency and innovation in a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2950,438,446,440,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:15:00 GMT Efforts to improve public sector access to the capabilities and expertise contained within the SME community are continuing at pace. Henry Rex, head of public sector/central government programmes at techUK, discusses the difficulties for businesses. During a time of budgetary constraint for the public sector, when Brexit uncertainty is... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:00:00 GMT Britain finally said ‘thank you’ to the country’s 5.37m public sector workers following a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of Public Service Day. The day, which took place on Sunday June 23 this year, was launched by the United Nations back in 2003 but has been barely acknowledged in the UK – until... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:00:00 GMT The public sector is leading the way in regards to flexible working, with 94% of public sector organisations offering this to employees, a new survey has revealed. The survey by Softworks, in partnership with Public Sector Executive, sought to learn more about the flexibility within the public sector along with how current and future... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,433,436,446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:15:00 GMT It’s no secret that the public sector and its service providers need to invest in technology to help make better use of their resources. But is it really just as simple as buying new software? Simon Dennis, director of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics innovation at SAS UK, tells PSE’s Luana Salles where the power of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 451,439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:45:00 GMT One of the public sector’s key technology partners has recently welcomed a new member to its team. Matt Spencer, O2’s head of public sector sales, speaks to PSE’s Luana Salles about what a day in his life looks like, and how the public sector can benefit. For Matt Spencer, no two days are ever the same. Five months into... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,451,439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:45:00 GMT Ryan Reed, head of public sector sales at Swiss Post Solution (SPS), reveals the new ESPO 390 framework, which can help address the need for digital transformation across the public sector.  The administrative and financial burden of manual processes and physical records is taking its toll on across the public sector. The... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:30:00 GMT Cognitive Publishing, the home of leading government management magazine Public Sector Executive, has been selected as an official partner of the Northern Powerhouse. In support of the regional initiative, Cognitive will join a network of leaders and organisations who believe in supporting and delivering on the economic potential of the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 2899,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:45:00 GMT The easiest savings across the public sector have already been made and choices of where to cut corners are getting increasingly harder, meaning the government will soon have to face tough decisions on the future of public service financing. In this year’s Performance Tracker report, the Institute for Government (IfG) argued that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:15:00 GMT Hugo D’Ulisse, technical director, public sector at SAS UK & Ireland, outlines the top issues you’ll need to consider for making artificial intelligence (AI) a success. When it comes to AI, it feels like the UK has entered into a sprint to the top. In the adjacent lanes are China and the US with all their spending... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:00:00 GMT Any new cloud system you adopt will become the beating heart of your business operations for years to come. It is therefore crucial to choose a long-term, trusted partner to help you along the way, writes Rafael Cortes, head of marketing at Foehn. Uniquely, there is one system that governs the productivity of your employees, the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:45:00 GMT YPO has launched the first national apprenticeship framework this month, allowing the UK public sector to access apprenticeship training across all standards from a range of local and national suppliers. Lizzy Grayson, category manager of corporate services at YPO, urges public organisations to act now to benefit from the scheme, and reveals how... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:45:00 GMT Article by Callum Wood of Public Sector Magazine The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) upheld almost 60% of the detailed investigations it dealt with last year, which is up from just over half the previous year. Its annual report shows that the body dealt with more than 31,500 complaints and enquiries from the public... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:45:00 GMT Foehn's Rafael Cortes tells PSE about the company's latest triumph and discusses how the G-Cloud can shape the digital marketplace in the future. It has been confirmed by the Crown Commercial Services that Foehn is included as a supplier in the category of ‘Cloud hosting, software and support’ on the G-Cloud 10... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:45:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Danny Longbottom, director of local government & health at BT Business & Public Sector, reminds organisations that having the right tech in place will help save time and money in the long run – and Intelligent Connectivity may just be the perfect solution. Digital transformation has opened up a world... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Rafael Cortes, Foehn head of marketing, explains how G-Cloud 10 should be a catalyst for innovative solutions and not a source of complacency. It was Margaret Thatcher who once said, “you can’t buck the market.” On that occasion, the reference was made in the context of fiscal policy. More... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT David Willett, corporate director at The Open University, walks us through the university’s research into the apprenticeship levy, as well as its flexible approach to learning on-the-job. The UK is in a precarious position. Despite some progress over the last year, our productivity continues to lag behind other members of the G7... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 12:30:00 GMT PSE’s Seamus McDonnell looks at the reactions of councils and the government to the Grenfell Tower fire, from the immediate aftermath to the most recent developments. In March this year, the Metropolitan Police announced that one of Grenfell Tower’s fire doors – meant to hold out flames for at least 30 minutes –... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:30:00 GMT There has been a “lack of transparency” around the failure of some institutions to protect children from sexual abuse, it has been revealed. The Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has published its interim report, in which it calls for society’s reluctance to discuss the issue to be addressed. The lack of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 27 Apr 2018 08:30:00 GMT Reporting from the LGA’s Annual Public Health Conference 2018, PSE’s Sacha Rowlands considers the age-old question: are longer lives necessarily better lives, or do we still have some way to go to achieve true health equality? This year, our treasured NHS celebrates its 70th birthday. If it was a woman living in the south... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:00:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Hannah Bennett, marketing executive at Audit Partnership, the latest named supplier on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS’s) Spend Analysis and Recovery Services II framework, provides an insight into spend recovery and the resulting benefits. If your organisation is one of the many now considering... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling, of License Dashboard, looks into why it is so important for public sector organisations to be able to account for their technology assets in order to fall in line with incoming GDPR regulations. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on 25th May 2018. Organisations are... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE XMA, one of the UK’s leading providers of technology products, services and solutions to the public sector, discovers how it really is possible to save energy, money – the world, even – one monitor at a time… Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to achieve ever-changing, newly set... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling of License Dashboard discusses the advantages of using Software Asset Management (SAM) in the education sector to ensure compliance in both higher and further education. When compared to businesses, software licensing in the education sector is often less costly.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Ben Eagling of License Dashboard discusses the importance of using Software Asset Management (SAM) in contract renewals to improve planning and save money through preparation. Effective Software Asset Management (SAM) ensures no license goes unused, and no user goes unlicensed. But it is just... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:30:00 GMT ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE Craig Taylor of Phoenix Software discusses the importance of considering Software Asset Management (SAM) at every stage of your cloud migration to better monitor costs, manage the project, and maintain compliance. Change isn’t easy. From introducing new ways of working, managing a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:15:00 GMT Advertisement feature Rafael Cortes, head of marketing at Foehn, discusses what cloud service providers can do to deliver innovative solutions for their clients. At some time or other, we’ve all met those over-used phrases that have been repeated so often that their meaning becomes distorted. “With all due respect... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:45:00 GMT PSE’s Josh Mines reports from the Social Value Conference 2017, where mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street explained how social value is benefitting his region. One of the values behind the combined authorities that have been set up over the last two years lies in driving equal and diverse growth throughout the UK’s city... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:00:00 GMT PSE’s Seamus McDonnell reports from the King’s Fund Annual Conference 2017 in London, which covered the latest developments in integration, prevention, and the future of health and social care during 29-30 November. Against the backdrop of increasing service pressures, limited funding and a major workforce crisis, the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:00:00 GMT At a time when local government is looking to squeeze extra value from procurement, original thinking can make all the difference. PSE’s Josh Mines reports from the National Social Value Conference 2017, where delegates heard all about the benefits social value can bring for the public sector. “Doing good is good... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:45:00 GMT Getting security wrong during the transition from paper to digital could mean a loss of public confidence in new services, argues Graeme Stewart, director of public sector at Fortinet UK&I. From ransomware attacks against the NHS, to cyber-attacks on parliamentary email accounts, it’s safe to say that it’s been a bad year... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:15:00 GMT Chief executive of Hoopers Genealogists, Kevin Edmondson, reflects on how the increasing number of public health funerals and recent changes to the Government Legal Department’s (GLD’s) policy on unclaimed estates affect the public sector. As these changes put extra pressure on already overstretched local authorities and NHS... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 10:15:00 GMT Advertisement feature Christopher Gallagher, territory manager at SAS, explains how big data can be used by the public sector to find innovative solutions to common problems.  I have been really impressed by the work of Visual.ONS – the team at the Office for National Statistics, who are responsible for exploring... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:15:00 GMT In an age of austerity, council leaders are always looking to squeeze everything they can from finite budgets. Trafford Council CEO Theresa Grant explains to PSE’s Josh Mines how social value can offer local authorities an innovative new way to deliver services.  Social value is a simple concept that is transforming the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:45:00 GMT Guy Battle, CEO of Social Value Portal, dispels the six big myths surrounding social value ahead of the national conference taking place in Birmingham on 14 November. There is no doubt that the Social Value Act 2012 is transforming the relationship between the public sector and business. It is hard to argue against doing more with the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:15:00 GMT Advertisement Feature: Christopher Gallagher, Public Sector – SAS, reveals the key to building richer pictures of society and the economy faster, more accurately and at a lower cost. As someone who is passionate about the role data plays in society, I fully understand the importance of the role the Census plays for England and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:15:00 GMT The Grenfell Tower disaster revealed a number of sizeable flaws in building health and safety regulations in the UK. PSE’s Josh Mines talks to Dr Karen McDonnell, occupational health and safety policy adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), about what councils can do to ensure safety concerns don’t... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:00:00 GMT A year after the UK voted to leave the EU and months since Article 50 was triggered, it’s still unclear what direction Brexit is going to take. PSE’s Josh Mines reports from the Public Sector Show about what the opportunities and consequences could be for the public sector post-Brexit. Over a year on, and despite an... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:45:00 GMT The general consensus in local government is that health localism is a force for good. But have we taken a moment to listen to the voices of the people outside town halls? PSE reports. Simon Stevens is one of the few national health leaders who spent a chunk of his career working as a councillor. Perhaps due to his days at the London... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:45:00 GMT PSE’s Josh Mines reports from Public Sector Show 2017, where DCLG director general for local government and public services Jo Farrar (pictured) discussed the importance of localism in driving integration and sustainability in communities. Localism is a topic that is hot on the agenda for the public sector. With vitally important... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:30:00 GMT A number of factors are placing increasing strain on the Civil Service and wider public sector. But speaking at the Public Sector Show, Rupert McNeil (pictured), chief people officer at the Cabinet Office, claims that we should also see the opportunities presented by adversity. The Civil Service is facing some choppy waters ahead. Brexit... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:00:00 GMT Over the years, the NHS has become known for its love of restructuring. But are sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) promising enough to stick around? PSE’s Luana Salles reports. For almost 30 years, the NHS has worked on the principle of isolation, with each part of the system doing its own thing and assuming that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:30:00 GMT While the government still deliberates the feedback to its industrial strategy consultation, the independent Industrial Strategy Commission has identified a number of key foundational themes to make it a success. PSE’s David Stevenson reports. As PSE went to press, we were still waiting for the government’s response to the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:30:00 GMT PSE’s Luana Salles reports from the first-ever People’s Powerhouse, a northern conference shaped around the values of inclusion, diversity and hope. This year’s Northern Powerhouse Conference, the second instalment of an event dedicated to discussing the north’s industry and economy, suffered a backlash of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:30:00 GMT PSE’s Luana Salles and Josh Mines report from this year’s Health+Care show, which served to highlight that isolated working is now a thing of the past. The health and care landscape as we know it is radically changing. Rather than focusing on institutions, organisations are increasingly teaming up with others to design... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT KYOCERA discusses the need for public sector organisations to focus on printers and multi-functional devices as part of preparations for the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s no secret the UK’s public sector is facing increasing pressure. There’s a growing demand for public services... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:30:00 GMT The LGA’s One Public Estate (OPE) programme director, Brian Reynolds, tells PSE’s Luana Salles about the scheme’s unique partnership between Whitehall and local government just as its sixth round of funding kicks off. When we spoke to Bruce Mann, former executive director of the Cabinet Office’s Government Property... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:30:00 GMT In the tumultuous age of Brexit, devolution, diversity and localism, there was plenty on the Public Sector Show 2017 agenda to talk about. PSE’s Josh Mines reports from a busy day at ExCel London.  While topics ranging from Brexit to digital resilience and diversity were all discussed at the Public Sector Show 2017, a number of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT Catch22’s new chief reform officer, Pamela Dow, who used to be the Ministry of Justice’s director of strategy, gives her perspective on what can be done to improve the way public services are designed and delivered.  A good friend of mine and brilliant former colleague, Gabriel Milland, recently wrote an article on why... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:15:00 GMT Kevin Dicks, the chief executive of Redditch Borough Council and Bromsgrove District Council, and Clare Hudson, programme manager at the LGA, talk to PSE about how shared management can act as a springboard for transformation and improve service delivery for local authorities. “Shared management represents a viable and interesting... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 03 Jul 2017 07:00:00 GMT PSE’s Luana Salles outlines everything health and care organisations need to know to prepare for the switch from the legacy N3 to a new, interoperable connectivity network with a rich offer of suppliers. The NHS is undergoing major transformation. With ambitious visions including the sustainability and transformation plans (STPs)... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:00:00 GMT Official media partner PSE reports from this year’s European iteration of the Shared Services & Outsourcing Week (SSOW), which took place in Manchester from 15-18 May. This year’s edition of the SSOW, of which PSE was an official media partner, was built on the premise that the shared services market “stands on a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:45:00 GMT Mark Hall, Chief Assurance Officer at Redcentric, discusses NHS Digital’s project, the new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) and what benefits it will deliver when it replaces the N3 national private network. In short, HSCN is the new data network for health and care organisations replacing the existing N3 private network, and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:45:00 GMT Keith Smith, public sector business development manager at Virgin Media Business, tells PSE’s Luana Salles that health and social care organisations must kick-start the move to the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) immediately in order to reap the most benefits from their new suppliers. After more than a decade in operation, N3... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:30:00 GMT Following the appointment of the University of Birmingham to deliver a major national public health leadership programme, Belinda Weir, director of leadership at its Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), considers the demands on public sector leaders and the need for focused development support. The unprecedented challenges facing... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:45:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, a G-Cloud provider since 2012, reminds us it’s vital to choose a cloud phone system supplier that can also deliver expert advice and technical support. The arrival of G-Cloud 9 marks the latest iteration of the innovative and influential Digital Marketplace platform for government... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 24 May 2017 12:45:00 GMT Tracie Evans, chief operating officer at Haringey Council, reflects on the importance of innovative change and improving the relationship between staff and senior management in these times of austerity. Since joining Haringey Council four years ago, Tracie Evans, the local authority’s chief operating officer, says there has been a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:30:00 GMT Dr Daniel Dresner, information and cyber security governance lecturer at the University of Manchester, explains how the public sector’s approach to cyber security is improving. The public sector’s approach to cyber security governance in the past could be summed up like many school reports: ‘getting better, but room for... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:30:00 GMT Shane Green, programme manager for business intelligence & open data, and Sudip Trivedi, head of data & analytics and connectivity — Business Partner for Place at Camden Council, discuss the importance of using data analytics to improve service delivery. Over the last few years, Camden Council has been on a significant... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:00:00 GMT Despite its many brilliant female leaders, the Northern Powerhouse often forgets to shout about the women working tirelessly to transform the region. But this is all about to change, Donna Hall, chief executive of Wigan Council, tells PSE’s Luana Salles. According to the Fawcett Society, only 12% of council leaders and 13% of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:00:00 GMT Reading Buses, the innovative operator wholly owned by the local borough council, has become the first town-wide contactless bus network outside London. PSE reports. Reading Buses, the council-owned organisation that strives to reduce car dependency for visitors and residents, has become the first independent operator to go 100%... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:00:00 GMT Grainne Siggins, national policy lead and trustee at the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care (ADASS), talks to PSE about the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) recent report on health and social care integration. In February, the NAO released its report into health and social care integration. In summary, it stated that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:00:00 GMT PSE reports from this year’s Carbon Trust Public Sector Conference. One of the key messages to come out of this year’s Carbon Trust Public Sector Conference was that the sector needs to highlight the importance and business case for moving to a low-carbon economy. Speaking at the event, which attracted over 200 attendees... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:30:00 GMT We talk to Mark Lloyd, who has been chief executive of the LGA since November 2015. Prior to taking on this role, he had been the CEO at Cambridgeshire County Council from 2008 and Durham County Council from 2005. What are the biggest challenges facing local government in the next 12 months? Councils and councillors deserve a standing... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:45:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, says that with G-Cloud’s increasing popularity and standardised offerings, it’s vital to choose a provider that also delivers expert advice and technical support.  While the G-Cloud is set for version 9 launch in May, attention in some quarters still focuses on the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:45:00 GMT Carl Haggerty, a co-founder of LocalGov Digital and chair of its Steering Group, tells PSE that the only way to harness the true power of technology in the public sector is to fundamentally rethink why local authorities exist in the first place. Although the private sector tends to take most of the credit, the public sector has actually... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 05:30:00 GMT Richard Rugg, managing director of programmes at the Carbon Trust, looks at the opportunities and challenges facing sustainability in the public sector over the next 12 months. As we come up towards our annual Public Sector Conference, I usually take a moment to reflect on the year gone by and the progress made in in the UK, as well as... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:45:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, highlights some cost-saving possibilities in the company’s Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Phone Systems for the public sector.  The rise of cloud phone systems  As central funding dries up and cloud services experience a rising tide of popularity, more and more government... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:30:00 GMT PSE reports on the latest announcements around electric vehicles, including new funding in the Autumn Statement and further commitments from cabinet ministers to expanding the sector. Following new funding promises for electric vehicles (EVs) from chancellor Philip Hammond in his Autumn Statement last month, business secretary Greg Clark... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 07:30:00 GMT Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) recently won Socitm’s Innovation Award for its ‘Right Here Right Now’ programme. Alan Evans, head of transformation, and Maryvonne Hassall, computer services manager at the local authority, give PSE an update on the work and future development plans. Like many local authorities in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:00:00 GMT Paul Ward, head of ICT strategy, systems and development for Coventry City Council, explains how the local authority is using the Local Government Digital Service Standard (LGDSS) to deliver more user-friendly services. Coventry City Council, like many other local government organisations across the country, is on a transformation journey... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 26 Dec 2016 09:00:00 GMT Poppy Welch, head of Go Ultra Low, talks to PSE’s David Stevenson about the opportunity the public sector has in increasing electric vehicle (EV) take-up. There is a government aspiration that by 2040 every new car in the UK will be an ultra-low emission vehicle (ULEV), and while this is still the trajectory industry is working... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 26 Dec 2016 08:30:00 GMT It’s time councils leave uncertainty behind and take the plunge into full-scale digitisation, argues Martyn Wallace, the chief digital officer of the new Scottish Local Government Digital Office. Luana Salles reports. Martyn Wallace concluded his interview with PSE with a thought perhaps more fitting at the very start of any... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:30:00 GMT PSE considers the recent housing announcements in the Autumn Statement and analyses what is needed in the upcoming white paper to ensure councils have all the tools necessary to tackle the crisis. As PSE went to press, central government was due to publish an eagerly anticipated housing white paper, which organisations believed offered a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:00:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, explains how the public sector can protect jobs and deliver better for less through the transformation of services. Public sector cuts delivered by the last government show every sign of continuing. But despite the years of austerity and digital transformation, public bodies are still... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:30:00 GMT PSE looks at the major asks of a scathing report published by the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust, and how they could impact the upcoming Autumn Statement. There is no more burning injustice in Britain today than older people being denied the care they need to live independently, the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust said... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 06:30:00 GMT PSE’s David Stevenson analyses the recent Environmental Audit Committee’s report into sustainability in the Department for Transport (DfT), and what this means for achieving sustainable transport targets. Although the DfT has taken “many positive steps” to meet the challenge of sustainability in the transport... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 04:30:00 GMT Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council leader, Cllr Chris Read, and Ian Thomas, the local authority’s strategic director of children’s services, discuss the importance of open and honest relationships to deliver change with government commissioners. In February last year, the government appointed a team of commissioners to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 07:00:00 GMT Shortly after Energy for Edinburgh finished appointing a board of directors, PSE caught up with its chair, Cllr Adam McVey, to find out more about Scotland’s first council-owned operable energy services company (ESCo). Edinburgh City Council has achieved a landmark accomplishment by recently becoming the first local authority... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:30:00 GMT Milton Keynes Council is one of only four local authorities to have been granted a share of the government’s £40m ‘Go Ultra Low Cities’ programme. Brian Matthews, head of transport innovation at the council, discusses the plans to make the city’s transport offering more sustainable. On-demand buses, free... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Oct 2016 06:00:00 GMT Community-led developments should not be overlooked in helping tackle the country’s housing crisis, argues Tony Armstrong, chief executive of Locality. Scale isn’t necessarily the answer when it comes to solving the housing crisis. It certainly isn’t the whole answer.  There’s no denying that, as a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 447,441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 28 Oct 2016 04:30:00 GMT Terry Espiner, head of UK healthcare at Cisco Ltd, explains how digital technology can help hospitals deliver the highest quality care while improving the patient experience. The UK population is expected to increase dramatically over the next 10 years, meaning healthcare professionals are faced with a difficult question: how can... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:30:00 GMT Following the DCLG’s consultation on 100% business rates retention, PSE provides an analysis of what each part of the local government spectrum is saying in response. Luana Salles reports. When PSE went to print, it had only been a few weeks since the DCLG’s 12-week consultation on 100% business rates retention had... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:30:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, explains how public sector organisation can get the most out of the Digital Marketplace – the online marketplace for G-Cloud.  G-Cloud – the Government marketplace designed to support the public sector’s digital transformation – makes the procurement of cloud... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:30:00 GMT James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, explains the challenges public sector IT managers face in implementing cloud technologies.  Think of all the department heads in your organisation. Now think about the consequences of each screwing up. Sales, production, HR, marketing – a glitch from any could leave a dent in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:45:00 GMT Along with optimising land usage and promoting co-location, a radical new report makes the case for rationalising all local NHS estate into one body. PSE’s Luana Salles reports. As with the rest of the public sector, estate management has been a key focus across the NHS in recent months. Whether that’s in the form of NHS... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:30:00 GMT PSE investigates the latest developments around full business rates retention locally and the prospect for further fiscal devolution. Over the next four years, local authorities will invest most of their energy and attention towards the government’s business rates devolution proposal. Consultations have been launched one after the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:00:00 GMT Many councils are seeking to deliver outcomes-based commissioning, but don’t know how to achieve this difficult goal. Ingrid Koehler, service innovation lead at the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), explains how a new project could help facilitate improvements in the home care sector. Although outcomes are generally... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:00:00 GMT Despite the political uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote, Dr Alison Knight, head of places strategy at Cheshire West and Chester Council, explains why it is vitally important to keep leaders focused on plans for public sector estate reform. Strong leadership, political buy-in and good programme management are three of the vital... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 07:30:00 GMT Theresa May’s plans for police and crime commissioners (PCCs) to take on the duties and responsibilities of fire and rescue authorities (FRAs) have not been without controversy. But what have localities been doing to ensure any decision made is beneficial? Paul Bullen, acting director for governance, operations and delivery at the Office... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 07:00:00 GMT Speaking ahead of this year’s party conference season, Dave Penman, general secretary at the FDA Union, discusses the recent Brexit vote and the need to properly resource the Civil Service to deliver the government’s commitments. In order to deliver the government’s commitments following the UK’s vote to leave the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:00:00 GMT Cllr Michelle Lowe, deputy leader and cabinet member for housing & health at Sevenoaks District Council, argues that if Westminster is really serious about tackling homelessness it needs to set local government free to develop solutions. The House of Commons’ Communities & Local Government (CLG) select committee recently... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:00:00 GMT Stephen Miller, research and evaluation manager at the Design Council, talks to PSE’s Luana Salles about the main barriers to embedding smart service design in local authority projects, and how to overcome them. At a time of financial constraints and growing demand, it is already clear to local authorities that they must start... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:30:00 GMT Professor Lord Patel of Bradford OBE, former chair of the Mental Health Act Commission, makes the case for a radical new report that offers practical solutions to breaking integration barriers. How many times have we heard that if only we had full integration of health and social care, we would be able to improve the lives of those who... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 447,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMT David Stevenson looks back at this year’s Health+Care Show, the largest national integrated care conference, and what challenges remain to delivering joined-up health and social care. This year’s Health+Care Show took place in the shadow of the UK’s vote to leave the EU, and just days before the NHS-led sustainability... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:30:00 GMT PSE’s Rosemary Collins analyses the recent Home Affairs Select Committee report into the UK’s response to the migration crisis, and whether the public sector is doing enough to support Syrian refugees. The saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ never proved truer than last September. The sight of the pictures... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:15:00 GMT This month Foehn is publishing a ‘Top Tips’ guide to help the growing number of public sector organisations that have made the decision to move to a cloud phone system and want to ensure they get the most out of the financial and business benefits on offer.  But what if you’re one of the hundreds of IT managers in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:30:00 GMT Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton, chair of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority and leader of Barnsley Council, talks to PSE about how work is progressing on the region’s £900m devolution deal. Last year PSE reported that Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton, and the Sheffield City Region LEP chair, sent a letter to the chancellor... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:15:00 GMT For more than sixteen years, James Passingham, Chief Technical Officer at Foehn, has pioneered the development of communication systems using open source software. Here, James explains where government policy encouraging the use of open source is bearing fruit. It was some four years ago, with the founding of the Government Digital... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:00:00 GMT Paul Hilton, senior project officer, infrastructure development at Sustrans, explains how the second round of the Sustainable Transport Delivery Excellence Programme is aiming to support sustainable transport solutions that enable increased levels of active travel across the country. With growth deals in their second year alongside a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:30:00 GMT Benjamin Taylor, CEO of the Public Service Transformation Academy (PSTA), which has taken over the running of the Cabinet Office’s Commissioning Academy, talks to PSE about the future of public sector commissioning. When PSE called Benjamin Taylor for our interview, we caught him in the middle of running a hack day in Cornwall.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:00:00 GMT Ian Fishwick, commercial director at Innopsis, the public sector technology trade association, reviews the Public Accounts Committee report on government spend with SMEs.  When the Conservative government was re-elected, it announced that having beaten its target of 25% of government spend  to be with SMEs by the end of the last... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 25 May 2016 15:00:00 GMT Paul Carter, chairman of the County Councils Network and leader of Kent County Council, discusses the need for Whitehall to work collaboratively with councils to deliver an improved education system. In my early days as Leader of Kent County Council, the then long-standing leader of Oxfordshire gave me some wise words of advice... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,452 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 05 May 2016 16:15:00 GMT Keen to improve service delivery and value for money, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) and the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) have made significant productivity and efficiency gains since implementing a new cloud telephone system from Foehn.  Furthermore, since moving to the new system, PHSO is saving £50,000... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:45:00 GMT Gareth Harcombe, operational manager of energy and sustainability at City of Cardiff Council, explains how the authority used advanced technology to heat, insulate and even rescue its public buildings. The City of Cardiff Council has been supporting the development of some innovative new technologies that could help to increase the uptake... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:15:00 GMT Steve Bishop, strategic director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils, talks to PSE’s David Stevenson about an innovative procurement contract aimed at saving five local authorities at least £50m over the next decade. There is an old rule of thumb that says there is ‘power in numbers’... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:00:00 GMT Chris Halward, director of professional development at the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), discusses the delicate balance of whether to outsource public services or not. In 2013 the National Audit Office estimated that the public sector, as a whole, spent £187bn with private sector providers, with over £80bn spent by... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:00:00 GMT One year before the new apprenticeship targets and levy come into force, Tom Storey, director at K10, outlines how public sector bodies should view the reforms as a procurement opportunity rather than a burden. Luana Salles reports. In a keynote speech delivered in Burton upon Trent in December last year, prime minister David Cameron set... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:00:00 GMT Following new homeless accommodation measures in the spring Budget, PSE’s Luana Salles assesses if the money is enough – and what can realistically be done to tackle rough sleeping. In his spring Budget, chancellor George Osborne promised another £115m for measures designed to tackle homelessness, with the lion’s... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:30:00 GMT In 2014, Manchester City Council committed to tackle domestic violence by reshaping and streamlining major services. The local authority’s strategic director for adult social care, Hazel Summers, explains what this reform means for the city’s public bodies. Two years ago, 10 councils were handed up to £100,000 each to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:15:00 GMT Influential council chief executives recently discussed the importance of devolving housing responsibility to local areas in the future in order to support the country’s economic development. David Stevenson reports from the UK Northern Powerhouse International Conference & Exhibition. Future devolution of housing responsibility... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:45:00 GMT Philip Burgess, director general at the Salt Association, explains how local highways authorities have improved their operational efficiency to cope with big winter chills and moved away from a just-in-time supply system. Almost £250m worth of damage was caused to key infrastructure like roads, bridges and drainage systems by this... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:30:00 GMT Advertorial Feature With the uptake of cloud computing and the advancements in browser technology, web applications and web services have become a core component of many business processes, and therefore a lucrative target for attackers. Over 70% of websites and web applications however, contain vulnerabilities that could lead to the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:30:00 GMT PSE talks to Poppy Welch, head of Go Ultra Low, about the new funding for eight cities and city-regions to improve their electric vehicle charging infrastructure and encourage take-up of the vehicles, and to Peter Mann, director of transport at Bristol City Council, which together with its neighbours was one of the areas that won... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:45:00 GMT ADVERTORIAL FEATURE James Passingham, chief technical officer at Foehn, explains why the communications company has produced a Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Phone Systems for the Public Sector. The rise of cloud phone systems As cloud adoption continues to grow in the public sector, more and more government bodies and local... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:00:00 GMT Mike Wright, head of housing choice at Salix Homes, talks to PSE about how a £2m flagship centre in Salford will help young people transform their lives. Housing association Salix Homes has revealed plans to convert a disused homeless hostel in Salford into a state-of-the-art training centre with live-in accommodation to help young... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:30:00 GMT Two police and crime commissioners, Dr Alan Billings and Tony Lloyd, talk to PSE to discuss the challenges for local policing in their areas, and the general direction for emergency services. The chancellor used his last Autumn Statement to announce that there would be “no cuts” to police funding in the next financial year.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 454,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 09:45:00 GMT Civil servants have been told to use plain English and avoid acronyms when launching public consultations, to make them easier to understand and to answer. In the government’s updated ‘consultation principles’ document for 2016 – first published in 2012 to improve the way it consults by taking no a more... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446,455 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:15:00 GMT One-third of the public sector projects due to be delivered in the next five years –most of which are designed to entirely transform the way services are delivered or accessed – may be completely unachievable, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. Looking into the progress of the Whitehall major project portfolio... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:45:00 GMT Tanya Nash, sustainable development team leader at Swansea Council, discusses how it has become one of the most sustainable public sector organisations in the UK. From April 2016, all public bodies in Wales will have to consider sustainable development in their decision making, from setting budgets and procuring goods to developing... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:00:00 GMT Westminster City Council has saved money and improved the efficiency of a major procurement exercise through the use of geospatial data. PSE talked to the council’s GIS lead, Peter Kohler. GIS – geographic information systems – once depended on highly technical software, specialist knowledge and teams with their own... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:45:00 GMT Dr Netta Weinstein, senior lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Psychology, and Brian Quinn, advisor at Design Council Cabe, talk to PSE’s David Stevenson about the impact green spaces in urban areas can have on social cohesion and crime reduction. American biologist Dr Edward O. Wilson once said that “nature holds... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:30:00 GMT Richard Blyth, head of policy practice and research at the Royal Town Planning Institute, talks to PSE about the opportunities and challenges for faith groups in the planning system. Town planners have given their backing to a research briefing which calls for more understanding and dialogue between local planning authorities and faith... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:15:00 GMT PSE talks to those responsible for Sheffield City Region’s “ingenious” and bold demands in its devolution bid. Luana Salles reports. “We see devolution as a journey, not a single deal,” says Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton, chair of Sheffield City Region Combined Authority, leader of Barnsley Council, and the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:00:00 GMT PSE’s Adam Hewitt reports from ‘The Future of the Northern Powerhouse and Local Government’ conference organised by the University of Salford and its subsidiary training company ONECPD. The Northern Powerhouse has relatively high name recognition, but actual understanding of what it is all about is significantly lower.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:45:00 GMT Partners from six emergency services in Surrey and Sussex have been working together for nearly two years to co-design the way services are delivered. Linda Wood, programme manager of the Emergency Services Collaboration Programme, talks to PSE about some of the benefits already being felt across the region. As PSE went to press the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:00:00 GMT Luana Salles reports on Resilience Direct. Resilience Direct was launched in April 2014 to revolutionise the way public authorities share information in both emergency planning and response, including during disruptive incidents like floods, fires and storms. It covers all category 1 and 2 responders: resilience officers or risk managers... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:15:00 GMT PSE’s David Stevenson looks at how funding for subsidised bus services has been reduced over the last Parliament and what action PTEs are taking to maintain vital services. Nearly all public transport executive bodies outside London have had to reduce their funding for subsidised bus services in the last three financial years... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:00:00 GMT A three-year European project to improve the quality of public transport interchanges recently held its closing conference. PSE spoke to Stephen Wise, senior transport planner at Reading Borough Council, one of the UK participants in the programme. NODES – New Tools for the Design and Operation of Urban Transport Interchanges... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:45:00 GMT Gail Scholes, lead officer at Robin Hood Energy, talks to PSE about the launch of the first council-owned not-for-profit energy supply company since nationalisation in 1948. In September the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) extended the timetable for its investigation into the energy market from December this year to June... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:45:00 GMT A year ago, PSE reported on the publication of ‘A Guide to Integrated Assurance’ from the Association for Project Management (APM). Now, its authors are looking for case studies from organisations that have used the guide, to help others along the way. PSE caught up with Roy Millard, chair of the APM’s Assurance Specific... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:30:00 GMT Jo Beck, housing options and support service manager at Royal Borough of Greenwich, talks about the challenges facing councils in tackling homelessness. Royal Borough of Greenwich has become the first council in the country to be awarded the government’s Gold Standard for tackling and preventing homelessness. The programme... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 442,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:15:00 GMT PSE talks to Peter Glynne, head of change and programme management at Westminster City Council, about the evolving roles and responsibilities of project managers in the public sector – and how they are perceived. The next five years will be a period of massive disruption and change for the whole public sector, but especially for... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:15:00 GMT Roy McNally, development manager for Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies and handyperson services, explains why improving and adapting people’s homes can make a vital contribution to health and care. It is now widely accepted that the only sustainable way to relieve pressure on the NHS and our social care... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:15:00 GMT PSE’s Luana Salles investigates the aims and progress of a new programme championing the creation of ‘healthy places’. In 35 years, three in every five British men will be obese. Half of the women you know will follow suit. The mere prospect is a bitter pill to swallow – and to never exercise off – but the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT Oliver Robbins (pictured), director general of Civil Service Reform at the Cabinet Office, discusses the upcoming Civil Service Live events, what is on offer and how people can get involved. As cabinet secretary and head of the Civil Service Sir Jeremy Heywood recently observed, the Civil Service has made huge strides in modernising... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT Debbie Simpson, a former senior civil servant who three years ago founded the Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services charity, has been recognised with a European-level award for her work. PSE caught up with her. ICiPS, the Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services, was founded in 2012 to help public... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT Cllr Julie Dore (pictured), leader of Sheffield City Council and the Core Cities cabinet member for finance and investment, talks to PSE about the need for a place-based settlement and comprehensive spending review. In late July the chancellor launched his ‘A country that lives within its means’ document, which outlines the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT The Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme has launched an updated standard form of contract and procurement suite to aid both local authorities and contractors. Adam Hewitt spoke to Meg Booth, highways intelligence group manager at Devon County Council, one of the councils that’s helped to develop the new documents. HMEP, the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT Dundee City Council is among a handful of public sector organisations shortlisted in the 2015 Low Carbon Champions Awards. PSE spoke to the council’s corporate fleet manager, Gary McRae. On 9 September, the 2015 Low Carbon Champions Awards will be announced at an event in Milton Keynes, during the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT Tom Copley AM (pictured), chair of the London Assembly’s Housing Committee, explains why there is a lot of cross-party concern about the government’s plans to extend right-to-buy to housing associations in London. In the 2015 Queen’s Speech the new government set out its plans to “dramatically” extend... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:30:00 GMT The “outdated practice” of automatically deducting trade union subscriptions from the salaries of public sector workers will be abolished under the Trade Union Bill. The government has announced the move today (6 August) as a way to “modernise the relationship between employees and their preferred trade unions”... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,455,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:30:00 GMT All public sector staff in customer-facing roles must be able to speak fluent English as of next month. Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock MP confirmed yesterday (2 August) that workers will need to attain at least ‘level 2’, equivalent to a C or above at GCSE. The requirement could increase depending on the nature of the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:15:00 GMT The Government Digital Service and the Crown Commercial Service, working with techUK, are running a series of Digital Marketplace buyer and supplier events. The 14 free nationwide events in seven different cities in August and September will raise awareness of the Digital Marketplace, educate buyers in the public sector on how to find... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:15:00 GMT Adam Hewitt reports on the government’s plans to reform local government and devolve further powers to combined authorities and city-regions. As PSE was going to press, the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill was getting its second reading in the House of Lords.  The Bill – previously referred to as the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:15:00 GMT Dean Langton, strategic director at Pendle Borough Council, explains how a consortium of councils is attempting to tackle fraud collectively. Last year the DCLG launched a £16m Counter Fraud Fund to support local authorities in reducing council tax reduction (CTR) fraud and error, with a consortium of 12 councils – led by... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 454,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:15:00 GMT The leaders of the Greater Manchester health and social care devolution agenda spoke at the recent NHS Confederation annual conference in Liverpool to explain what they are doing and why. Adam Hewitt was there. “Why Greater Manchester? Largely because it’s our idea.”  Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:15:00 GMT Programme director Mike Broad sets the scene for this year’s Health+Care conference at the ExCeL in London, which will welcome visitors on 24 June. Health+Care returns to London’s ExCeL on 24-25 June 2015. More than 8,000 commissioners and health and social care providers will gather from across Europe to take part in the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:00:00 GMT PSE speaks to Cardiff’s Ross Maude, senior enterprise architect for IT at the council. The City of Cardiff Council is facing £124m in budget cuts over the next three years, but rather than simply look at stripping back services, the authority is using the challenge as an opportunity to transform itself and how it deals with... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:45:00 GMT Dr Daniel Sturm, associate professor of economics at LSE, and Chris Wormald, head of the Civil Service Policy Profession and permanent secretary at the Department for Education, discussed the development of a new Executive Master of Public Policy (EMPP) degree to train future leaders of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has chosen to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:45:00 GMT A revised version of a successful framework for the provision of temporary staff to the public sector has now gone live. PSE spoke to David Maylin, category manager for professional services at ESPO, the UK’s largest public sector-owned purchasing organisation, which manages and monitors the framework. Nearly 180 organisations... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:30:00 GMT The public sector is expected to face ongoing reductions in development resources. Ruth Stuart, learning & development research adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, talks about the challenges and potential opportunities to diversify. Half of public sector learning and development (L&D) professionals... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:15:00 GMT PSE talks to Cheshire East’s Cllr Les Gilbert, cabinet member for communities, about the authority’s counter-fraud focus and deterrence-based communications strategy. In the year to 31 March 2015, Cheshire East Council prosecuted 63 cases of fraud relating to housing benefit, council tax benefit and council tax support –... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 454,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:00:00 GMT Matt Downie, director of policy and external affairs at Crisis, says a recent Supreme Court judgment will significantly change the way councils assess homeless people’s vulnerability when deciding whether local authorities have a duty to house them. In May, the Supreme Court ruled on a long-running legal challenge to the way... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 442,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:45:00 GMT Mark Stamper, youth employment manager at Newcastle City Council and Generation NE project lead, explains how a new programme aimed at progressing young people into sustained employment could also help strengthen the region’s call for further devolution. Despite recent reductions, the percentage of 16-24 year olds not in education... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:45:00 GMT Sam McCaffrey speaks to Cllr Pete Lowe, leader of Dudley council, about plans for a combined authority in the region. Since the announcement of the first big devolution deal for Greater Manchester, other regions have rushed to be the next authority to receive equivalent wide-ranging powers. Deals have been announced for the Sheffield City... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:15:00 GMT Will Fensom, head of architecture, security & configuration at Essex County Council, gives an overview of the challenges and opportunities involved in moving to a cloud-enabled flexible working infrastructure. Three years ago, Essex County Council set out on organisation-wide project to give our 10,000 employees ‘any time, any... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 29 May 2015 09:45:00 GMT Charles Cotton, adviser for performance and reward at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, talks to PSE about employee attitudes towards pay and pensions in the public sector. David Stevenson reports. Between December 2013 and December 2014, about 53% of UK employees received some form of salary increase, up marginally... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:30:00 GMT The government has responded to the Public Accounts Committee’s report on housing benefit fraud, on which MPs said the Department for Work & Pensions was making “little progress”. Adam Hewitt reports. The government has agreed with all of the recommendations of the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on tackling... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 454,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:00:00 GMT Colin Angel, policy and campaigns director at the United Kingdom Homecare Association, talks to PSE about the under-funding of homecare services for older people across the country. David Stevenson reports. Most councils failed to pay the recommended minimum price for homecare of £15.74 an hour last year, a report from the United... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:00:00 GMT Ralph Collett, managing director of CloserStill Media’s Medical Group, discusses the world of healthcare commissioning and the upcoming Health+Care show in London. PSE is the official media partner for the show. Commissioning entered the health lexicon under the previous administration as a means of expressing a new and more... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:00:00 GMT Des Kelly OBE, executive director at the National Care Forum, discusses whether the next couple of years will make or break the adult social care sector. David Stevenson reports. One the eve of the chancellor’s final budget, prior to the dissolution of Parliament, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:00:00 GMT A PSE investigation looks into the true extent of cuts faced by children’s centres in the last five years, with many local authorities having to tighten the purse strings for these vital services. David Stevenson reports. Local authorities across England have reduced their funding for children’s centres by nearly a third on... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:00 GMT Councils could play a key role in integrating health and social care at the local level, providing they are empowered to do so, a new report has concluded.  The study – Unblocking: Securing a health and social care system that protects older people – by Localis, highlighted that the “institutional” and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:00:00 GMT Companies House is on a digitisation journey, aiming to replace paper-based processes with electronic ones. PSE spoke to its senior analyst programmer, Chris Morgan Companies House, an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), is responsible for registering and publishing company information, and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 17:00:00 GMT A national review has concluded that councils will be central to delivering a successful step-change in housebuilding across England. PSE’s David Stevenson reports Local authorities should become ‘housing delivery enablers’, assessing the need to provide homes in their areas that their residents want and need, in order... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:45:00 GMT Tom Papworth, senior research fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, a think tank advocating market solution to policy problems, discusses how reforming the green belt could help tackle the country’s housing crisis. Voltaire once quipped that the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, was not Roman and was not an empire. In light of the fact... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:45:00 GMT Paul Miner, planning campaign manager at the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), discusses the benefits of protecting green belt land, and how using brownfield sites can help tackle the country’s housing crisis The green belt is good, positive planning. It stops urban sprawl and encourages the vital regeneration of our largest... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:45:00 GMT Barbara Harbinson, chief executive of Halifax Opportunities Trust, discusses how her charity successfully won a competitive tender to deliver children’s centre services for one West Yorkshire council. Calderdale Council announced in April 2014 that two local childcare providers had won contracts to run its 21 children’s centre... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:15:00 GMT Two senior project management professionals from the public sector are helping to create and deliver a new series of modules designed for a wide audience. PSE spoke to HMRC’s David Richardson, and Rob Blakemore from the Home Office, both of whom have roles with the Association for Project Management. As PSE was going to press, the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 09:45:00 GMT The Commission on the Voluntary Sector & Ageing is soon to publish its report and recommendations. PSE spoke to its chair, Lynne Berry OBE, who has been a chair, chief executive, trustee and non-executive director across many public and third sector bodies since an early career in social work. Demographic changes will profoundly alter... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 09:45:00 GMT Public sector bodies around the world invest vast sums of money each year on new or replacement assets such as buildings, equipment and facilities. With so much demand for capital investment it is essential that we make the right choices and demonstrate value for money. A vital activity is the scrutiny, via business cases, of what is proposed... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:00:00 GMT Just over six months ago, Leicester City Council implemented new systems for its adult and children’s social care teams to improve reporting. Project manager Ashok Popat tells PSE that information-sharing is much better than it was. A £2.8m overhaul of social care IT systems in Leicester is proving a good investment, with... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 870,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:30:00 GMT PSE’s Sam McCaffrey reports from the annual summit of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and senior managers. If there was a recurring theme running through this year’s Solace Summit in Liverpool, it was ‘change’. Rising demand and plummeting funding means the public sector cannot continue as it has... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:30:00 GMT John Hodges, assistant chief fire officer at Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, tells PSE how two Fire Transformation Fund bids could help enable ‘significant’ savings for the local emergency services. In a bid to deliver ‘significant’ savings, Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS)... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:45:00 GMT The new Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing has hit the ground running and has big ambitions. PSE heard from its director, Stephen Curtis, and head of dissemination Holly-Marie Draper. Public services could be more user-focused, effective and cheaper to deliver if public organisations and agencies improved their information... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:30:00 GMT Elizabeth Mahoney, project manager of Super Connected Cardiff at Cardiff City Council, discusses the latest achievements and developments of the programme. In 2012, the UK government announced that Cardiff was to be one of the first 10 cities to become ‘super-connected’ as part of its multi-million pound investment in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:15:00 GMT Adrian Dobson, director of practice at the Royal Institute of British Architects, talks to PSE about how confidence levels for workload forecasts in the public sector have started stabilising. Architectural practices are becoming more optimistic about a more predictable pipeline of public sector construction expenditure, a recent survey... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:45:00 GMT PSE’s David Stevenson reports from Socitm’s annual conference in Manchester. The next government could help deliver a culture of ‘digital by design, open by default’ for public services – but not through a ‘one-size-fits-all’ method like the Government Digital Service (GDS), according to Socitm... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:00:00 GMT Guy Levin, executive director at Coadec, discusses how the next government should commit to driving forward ‘digital government’ in the UK. The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec) is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for policies to support digital startups in the UK, and with just nine months to go until the next... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sat, 01 Nov 2014 09:15:00 GMT Hugo Pickford-Wardle, chief innovation officer at digital consultancy Matter, talks about the growing importance of digital in the public sector and delivering savings for local authorities and their citizens. Local and central government are migrating services to digital channels in an effort to improve service provision for citizens and... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:45:00 GMT Dr Nigel Goddard, director of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is to lead a team of researchers who will investigate various ways of reducing energy consumption in public sector buildings. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are to investigate the interactions... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:30:00 GMT Rob Crumbie, marketing and communications manager at Greenredeem, the rewards scheme that incentivises recycling, explores the impact of government recycling incentive funds. Eric Pickles recently announced there would be a new £5m recycling incentive fund for local councils. With this announcement, countless local authorities will... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:15:00 GMT Martin Samphire, chair of the Association for Project Management’s (APM) Governance Specific Interest Group, tells PSE about the fundamental principles of delivering good governance on change/projects. David Stevenson reports. Good governance is a term being used more and more often in the public and private sectors. However... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:00:00 GMT PSE’s Sam McCaffrey was in Whitehall for the launch of the latest update on Civil Service reform, with Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude MP. In June 2012 David Cameron wrote in the foreword to the government’s Civil Service Reform Plan that it was about “harnessing the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:00:00 GMT John Cameron, head of the NSPCC helpline, discusses the need for a culture change in the way government, local authorities and agencies tackle sex abuse and exploitation. The shocking report by Professor Alexis Jay that found that more than 1,400 young people were intimidated, sexually exploited and deeply harmed in Rotherham over a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:45:00 GMT New research shows that the government is spending £300m on failed family reunifications every year. Lisa Holmes, director at Loughborough University’s Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR), discusses the latest findings and the need to rethink the support provided to these families. Every year more than 10,000 children... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 442,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 13:30:00 GMT Cllr Lisa Trickett, cabinet member for a green, smart and sustainable city at Birmingham City Council, discusses the development of a new cycle hire scheme, which the local authority hopes will help make cycling a key part of the transport mix in the city. A new cycle hire scheme has been launched in Birmingham as part of a £140,000... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:30:00 GMT Crossrail took the ‘Excellence in the Public Sector’ crown at the Investors in People Awards. After the ceremony, PSE caught up with the project’s head of organisational effectiveness, Rob Jones. Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project – introduced to many more people in recent weeks thanks to a major... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:30:00 GMT Amongst the speakers at this year’s RWM in partnership with CIWM event is Joanna Dixon, community recycling officer at Croydon Council, who has a tough message to get across on England’s slowing progress towards hitting a 70% recycling rate. Recycling has shifted up the agenda in recent years, and is much more embedded culturally... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:30:00 GMT Philippa Davies, corporate director of resources at Wyre Council, discusses an innovative mobile service. There are many communities in the UK where access to online services is limited by location or age. How does a forward-looking council broaden its services without excluding those who are most in need of support? Wyre Council serves a... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:15:00 GMT A new report by the Committee on Standards in Public Life says ethical standards should be incorporated into contractual and monitoring arrangements for private companies and third sector bodies delivering outsourced services. PSE spoke to committee member Sheila Drew Smith OBE, a former economic adviser at the Treasury and former partner with... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 435,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:00:00 GMT Jane Lethbridge, director of the Public Services International Research Unit  at the University of Greenwich, discusses public sector outsourcing and its effects. In the last two years, the UK public sector has spent almost twice as much on outsourcing as the commercial sector, according to a new study by Information Services Group (ISG)... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:00:00 GMT Researchers Emma Norris and Marc Kidson at the Institute for Government talk to PSE about a new study that helps to identify the principles behind delivering effective policy implementation. Over the years successive governments have struggled to translate policy ideas into effective change on the ground. So why is good policy implementation... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:45:00 GMT David Owen, chief executive of GFirst LEP, tells PSE how investing in a new transport hub will be a ‘keystone’ in the regeneration of Gloucester. GFirst LEP, Gloucestershire’s Local Enterprise Partnership bringing together businesses to make the county more successful, has made a conditional offer of £3m to fund a new... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:15:00 GMT Cllr Carl Maynard, East Sussex County Council’s lead member for transport and environment, tells PSE how targeted investment and the local authority’s Highways Asset Management Plan will help ‘weather-proof’ the county’s roads for the future. Many of the UK’s road networks were severely affected during the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:15:00 GMT Cory Laywood, HR, pay and benefits manager at Leicester City Council, discusses the success of a new low carbon salary sacrifice car scheme for the local authority’s employees. Leicester City Council has launched a new low carbon salary sacrifice car scheme, which is generating lots of interest, take-up and potentially national... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:45:00 GMT Work is now underway on Leeds’ £50m Flood Alleviation Scheme, which includes a system of moveable weirs never before used in the UK. David Stevenson reports. Work on the new £50m Flood Alleviation Scheme (FAS) in Leeds, which will protect hundreds of business and thousands of homes in the city against a 1-in-75 year flood... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:45:00 GMT Philip Atkins, Staffordshire County Council leader, talks to PSE’s David Stevenson about the opportunities that a new energy recovery facility will bring to the region. Staffordshire County Council says a new state-of-the-art energy recovery facility will save the region’s taxpayers about £250m over the next 25 years, while... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:30:00 GMT Richard Beeby, programme director for ‘Project Angel’ at Northamptonshire County Council, discusses how moving 2,000 staff from 12 sites to one central HQ will save more than £50m. Northamptonshire County Council has won planning permission to transform derelict land in the heart of Northampton into a new HQ and office... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,443 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:30:00 GMT They say ‘good things come to those who wait’ and it feels like we’ve been waiting a long time for legislation to establish a competitive water market in England, argues Bob Wilson, director of Anglian Water Business, who explains how rather than waiting the company has been actively shaping the market and laying the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:30:00 GMT Patsy Mellor, assistant director of public access at Milton Keynes Council, discusses the benefits of adopting a Customer Contact Platform to improve productivity across its services. David Stevenson reports. Two years ago Milton Keynes Council took the strategic decision to implement a comprehensive review of its customer services. The... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:15:00 GMT The Barker Commission seems set to make radical recommendations in its final report on health and social care integration later this year. PSE spoke to commission member Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at LSE and former senior policy adviser to Tony Blair. On 24 April, the Barker Commission – more formally, the King’s... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:15:00 GMT The Gazette, the newspaper that serves as the official public record for the UK, has a new website and digital interface that makes it much easier for local authorities and other public bodies to place statutory notices for free – instead of paying to advertise in local newspapers. PSE spoke to The Gazette’s business and operations... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:15:00 GMT Gill Terry of Birmingham City Council describes how other public sector organisations could benefit from adopting the council’s own approach to achieving radical service redesign and transformational change. The priority now for the public sector is not just to survive the long-term future of budget constraints, but to also try to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:00:00 GMT Matt Humphrey and Sarita Adams from Baker Tilly Consulting explore some practical issues when considering collaborative working. The benefits of hindsight uring the last few years, in virtually every local authority, tables were cleared whilst management teams gathered around to manipulate and examine service reconfiguration scenarios that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:45:00 GMT The Commons Communities and Local Government Committee has called on councils to step up and get better value from the £45bn they spend each year on procuring goods and services. David Stevenson reports. A new report by the Communities and Local Government Committee has called on councils and the Local Government Association (LGA) to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:45:00 GMT Birmingham is not alone in making grand plans ahead of HS2’s arrival – Manchester also has plans for a ‘10-figure’ regeneration scheme around Piccadilly station and the planned neighbouring high-speed terminus. PSE heard from Transport for Greater Manchester’s Martin Lax and Dave Newton, Network Rail’s Clive... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:30:00 GMT Stuart Reid, head of marketing and business development at HWEnergy, talks about the growing adoption of biomass boilers in the Scottish public sector. There have long been calls for the public sector to become leaner and greener. And, in the face of rising oil prices, one council has decided to go down the eco-friendly route of using... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:00:00 GMT The University of Bradford calls itself an ‘ecoversity’, with its campus a ‘green oasis’ in the middle of the city. The campus includes some of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the world. PSE talked to the university estate manager for engineering and building, Russell Smith.  The University of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:45:00 GMT The Cabinet Office has made £150,000 available for Open Data training. Kathryn Corrick, head of content and learning at the Open Data Institute, which will conduct the training, explains the benefits of open data and the technological drive behind it.   As part of the government’s ambitions to improve transparency... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:15:00 GMT After three years of modest annual improvement, the quality of council websites has taken a tumble in the latest Socitm ‘Better connected’ survey. PSE found out why from Socitm Insight’s director Martin Greenwood. The quality of local authority website performance has slipped back in 2014, according to the most in-depth... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:15:00 GMT After successfully winning a £100,000 award from the O2 Local Government Digital Fund competition, Julia Woollard, team manager for architecture and programme management in ICT at Newcastle City Council, discusses how their innovative idea could help young people in the North East travel independently. Professor Stephen Hawking once... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:45:00 GMT The number of people turning to food banks in the face of welfare cuts is on the rise. PSE’s David Stevenson talked to Adrian Curtis, food bank network director at the Trussell Trust, to get the charity’s view on council-funded food banks. Across England and Wales the number of food banks opening each week is on the rise, and so... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 442,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:00:00 GMT Grant Speed, managing director of Odgers Interim, reports from the organisation’s recent Annual Public Services Dinner, addressed by HS2’s Paul Chapman. Paul Chapman, partner at Westbourne Communications and interim communications director at HS2 Ltd (pictured), advised an audience of public service executives and leaders that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:15:00 GMT A year on from the implementation of the Social Value Act, the Cabinet Office has released a report investigating progress so far. Adam Hewitt reports. The Public Services (Social Value) Act is “a powerful new tool in the commissioner’s toolbox, helping them get the most from every pound they spend”, according to civil... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT Integrating Care brought together leaders from the health, local government and social care sectors making better co-ordinated person-centred care an everyday reality. Adam Hewitt reports. That resources will we need to shift, and how, in order to make integrated health and care a reality for everyone? That was the question at a major... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) has launched a new report, ‘Think integration, think workforce’, encouraging service providers to consider the workforce perspective when integrating health and care teams. PSE heard from report author Zoë Dodd.  There are three key steps to workforce integration, according to... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT After the successful implementation of a new clinical gateway for referrals into secondary care for all of Manchester’s GPs, the city council’s social care team is now joining the initiative too. PSE spoke to the city council’s head of customer access, Kathy Weaver. When demand for hospital services in Manchester began... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT Bournemouth Borough Council was highlighted as an example of best practice in recycling and weekly waste collections in guidance issued by the DCLG. The council’s strategic operations manager Larry Austin speaks to PSE. Bournemouth Borough Council, which is among the best performing local authorities in the country on... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT Kate Ashley reports on the controversy on council waste collection frequency and DCLG’s latest ‘advice’ urging them to return to weekly schemes. Councils can retain weekly rubbish collections whilst increasing recycling rates and cutting overall costs, the government has insisted. Local government secretary Eric Pickles... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,444 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT Our Place is the next stage of the government’s programme to encourage neighbourhoods to redesign their own public services and communities, building on the 2012/13 Neighbourhood Community Pilots. PSE heard more from Deb Appleby, development manager at Locality, which is delivering the programme on behalf of DCLG.  Successful... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,440 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:00:00 GMT Anglian Water Business and Public Sector Executive brought together leaders from the water industry, regulators and customers to discuss the future of the water market once retail competition is brought in, the expectations of public sector customers, and the lessons from other markets and the water market in Scotland. Adam Hewitt... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 437,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:45:00 GMT Lesley Perkin, the new programme director for integrated care at Buckinghamshire County Council, talks to PSE about her role and the importance of joined-up working. Buckinghamshire County Council has created a new role to bring integrated care together across five different health and social care organisations, putting patients at the... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,445 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:30:00 GMT Stephen Joseph, chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport, spoke to PSE about Dutch research into the links between stations and town centres, and its English application. Routes between railway stations and town centres have traditionally been absent from both local government and transport investment plans. But it is this... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 441,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:15:00 GMT Kate Ashley reports from The Infrastructure Summit, which discussed how cities will look in the future. On 29 October, leaders from across the sustainability, planning, infrastructure and emerging technology sectors came together to discuss the future of urbanisation. Held by The Economist Events and sponsored by Hitachi, ‘The... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:00:00 GMT In November, the Skills Commission published a report on the future of further education. Matt Atkinson, principal of City Bath College and chair of the inquiry, spoke to PSE. Stronger inspection measures, greater accountability and the freedom to fail or flourish – the Skills Commission has analysed the impact of interventions in... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 453,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:30:00 GMT Colin Stenning, digital services manager at Bracknell Forest Council, explains how services can be delivered online while minimising the digital divide. To save time and money, many councils across the UK are going ‘digital by default’ and moving more of their services online. Yet in doing so, there’s a danger of... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:00:00 GMT Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust was ‘highly commended’ at the CIPD People Management Awards in the ‘employee engagement’ category for tackling negative staff perceptions. PSE spoke to the trust’s director of communications and staff engagement Myles Howell.  Hull & East Yorkshire... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 446,434 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:00:00 GMT There was much to discuss at a Conservative Party Conference fringe event on water policy, ‘Pipe Up: Will the Water Bill deliver for the consumer?’ Adam Hewitt reports. Environment secretary Owen Paterson told the All Party Parliamentary Water Group fringe event at his party’s conference that he was “proud” that... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 433,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:15:00 GMT Wokingham Borough Council in Berkshire has yet again topped the list of unitary authorities for council tax collection levels, on 99.43%, up from 99.37% in 2011/12. PSE asked Kevin Mercer, the head of service covering the council tax collection service, how it has managed it.  Q) What is your overall strategy for council tax... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT PSE talks to group manager for technology at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Simon Rice. Local authorities and other public sector organisations have been warned to take the utmost care in disposing of IT assets, because old hard drives can still contain sensitive personal data.  Speaking to PSE, the Information... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 439,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT Adam Hewitt reports from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. For hardworking people’ was the unavoidable phrase at the Conservative Party Conference this year – the words were in every speech, every soundbite, every press release and written in huge letters up on the wall and at the conference centre’s... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT Labour’s party conference urged British people – all people, rich and poor – to raise their aspirations and believe in a better society. Kate Ashley reports.  Ed Miliband’s conference speech – delivered without notes once again – was welcomed by many as strong and decisive. He announced a populist... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT Adam Hewitt reports on the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow. The biggest announcement at the Lib Dems’ conference in Glasgow was free school meals for all pupils at infant schools.  The new policy applies to children in reception and years one and two (ages four to six) and is estimated to save parents about £400 a year.... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 436,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT Kate Ashley reports on the value of evidence-based policy. How can politicians use evidence to develop better policy, bring the public along with them, and be able to admit both what works and what does not?  Ipsos MORI, the Alliance for Useful Evidence and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) held a fringe event at the Conservative... http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/ 438,446 http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com:80/ Mon, 14 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMT Pickles has announced reforms to stop ‘over-zealous’ parking enforcement, but the LGA warned that parking controls are “absolutely essentia