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VFM Champions Forum

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Welcome

Welcome to the Public Value Programme (PVP) Forum. This forum has been set up for you, the PVP Champions, to share your experience and ideas in delivering value for money (VfM) savings to the public sector. The forum will allow you to share and discuss your thoughts and disseminate expertise amongst the VfM Champions community.

The forum provides a space for you to capture lessons that might cut across multiple reviews, suggest and seek advice on how different vfm approaches might be applied in different areas of government or exchange advice and experience.

Background to the Public Value Programme

The Public Value Programme (PVP) was launched at Budget 2008 as a series of joint reviews between departments and Treasury spending teams to identify scope to improve value for money across major areas of spending.  The PVP has already identified significant savings and in Budget 2009(1) it was announced that the PVP will be extended to cover a minimum of 50 per cent of each department's budget, with a particular focus on areas of spend that impact across departmental boundaries.  This will be a year-long process, reporting around Spring 2010, aiming to achieve transformational vfm savings.

Your role as VfM Champion

In July 2009, 15 senior professionals with experience of delivering transformational value for money savings were invited to join the Public Value Programme and become VFM Champions.  You will work in partnership with departments and the Treasury to share their expertise, share best practice and help drive out opportunities for further value for money savings.  VFM Panels provide advice and challenge to reviews from a neutral space and help join reviews up across departmental boundaries.

Using this Forum

We have set up this forum to allow you to stay in touch with the Champions community to help strengthen your network and provide opportunities for discussion and support.  The PVP team will also use this forum to keep you up-to-date on latest developments in the programme. 

To create a discussion theme; a) click on the ‘add page’ tab on the right hand side of the screen b) enter a title for the page c)enter the text for the page (it is possible to re-visit the page) avoid cut and paste option d) add any relevant tags to help users find the content, tags should be separated by a comma (Treasury, Value for Money, Delivery) e) set the Access Settings: choose the ‘Group: VFM Champions Forum’ option from the drop down menu f) click Save

The page will now be saved and will appear in the right hand menu of the screen and users can now comment and discuss its contents.

Contact us

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Programme please contact us using the following links: in the first instance Alex Watson or alternatively  Charlotte Daly, Head of the Public Value Programme or another member of the team, Nick McNabb, Cian Murphy or Vaishali Sadrani.

**[Coming soon] VFM Panel guidance]

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