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Implementing Effective ICT: working with service partners to deliver value and accountability
A presentation from Jumbo IT services on working with outsource partne...ementing Effective ICT across the public sector' conference in Decembe...cutive agencies, non departmental public bodies and the wider public s...icy, Cabinet OfficeCraig Eblett - Public Service Network Programme Dire...
54 days ago
Public Sector Project Management – The Ingredients for Success
Public Sector Project Management – the Ingredients...d the attached file for the presentations from the Public Sector Project Management sem...Cranfield UniversityAnthony Dorsett, HP Enterprise ServicesRichard Laxton, Portfolio and...
70 days ago
...on the senior population. All the services offered by the SCLT are complementary to normal policing services, and are often carried out...0,000 people. The award-nominated publication is entirely funded by corp...nd is totally cost-neutral to the public purse. Far more than just anot...
181 days ago
Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...rough an Executive Masters in Public Administration- Presentation...Tue 15:20 Eliminating Public Sector Fraud Tue 15:...sp;The perils and pitfalls of public procurement; an SME view...; from private sector managed services to public sector procurement...
173 days ago
Upcoming Civil Service World Events
...ek-long series of free-to-attend seminars for public servants that explore some of...actice. Notable speakers from a wide range of public and private enterprises are s...ial and financial exclusion Delivering local services New ways to work with extern...
26 minutes ago
...ll content schedule will be announced in March 2012, including sessions around the key themes below:- Citizen focused customer services- Procurement- New models of public service delivery- Value for mon...
7 days ago
Change across the civil service
...whole system through the difficult times ahead. Current spending on public services had to contract by about ei...the challenges of the future whilst leading some of the most radical public service reforms announced by an...
165 days ago
Bickering delays Open Public Services White Paper ... again
...squo;s going on with the Open Public Services White Paper? The bill, whic...on for the future delivery of public services, has been delayed once agai...responsible for delays to the publication of the bill because he ref...is committed to transforming services, but this would not be a retu...
274 days ago
Obituary: Dame Lesley Ann Strathie
...rvant, both in terms of her own career – rising from clerical assistant to permanent secretary – and in the legacy she leaves of improved public services.Lesley started her working li...
11 days ago
NAO says quango reforms will cost twice government estimate
...tion costs, funding may be taken out of other activities and frontline services,” Keith Davis, the lead a...cost reductions. Their figures suggest that the administrative cost of public bodies will be between £800 mi...
11 days ago
To really transform public services, leaders must be braver, argues Alasdair Ramage.Senior public servants have an unprecedented opportunity to improve public services – particularly within the...garded services to an engaged public. Only then can the ‘cost’ a...
7 days ago
...er longer, more active lives. The focus remains firmly on customers, providing them with the services they need and aiming (wherever possible) to join up services with business partners in both the public and private sectors.’To be fa...
33 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...in, and of people who receive services. People’s expectations ar...itehall – both in the wider public sector, and among charities a...Total Place’ initiative – public sector workers are being asked...uire in order to build public services around service users, rather...
6 days ago
...didn’t want many Neds from the public sector: they were quite expli...ought we needed more people with public sector experience.”She thou...e the best possible policies and public services. Much progress has been mad...vil service and start building a public profile. “My biggest challeng...
11 days ago
Frontline: Forensic medical examiner
...ability of appropriate psychiatric assessment services. Patients can be held in cu...ims and suspects. We liaise with rape support services, child support services and s...ases in order to uphold their duty to protect public safety, and the ability of heal...
yesterday
A plan of action for plans of action
...iscussed. Banfield warns that public sector approval systems encou...contractual disputes.Finally, public sector managers must plan how...ross the probation and prison services (NOMS). Aileen Murphie audi.... Due to delays, the affected public sector organisations started to...
5 days ago
...h can be used to access these services. It soon became clear, howeve...online – and that includes public services. Government, of course...ntarily migrate to new online services. Indeed, said Orumwense, some...gs to cut energy costs on the public estate, or gathering informatio...
5 days ago
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...”Paul Woods head of support services and information policy at t...d that one such contract with public services provider Amey had saved £300...n,” he argued.Measuring and publicising performanceThe panelists c...gyPaul Woods, head of support services centre and information policy...
27 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...arter.James Grierson, head of public sector at property consultancy...mpared the value of goods and services procured by each department w...ews). Sureyya Cansoy, head of public sector at technology industry a...ny about particular corporate services, since good management inform...
89 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...nal Centre for Governance and Public Management, points out that i...adapt to the complexities of public sector finance systems &ndash...re involved in running public services in the future”.The Inst...overnment’s open public services white paper (see article). Th...
113 days ago
...n and union for the UK's senior public servants and professionals. We act as a powerful voice for public services and the people who deliver...t and the NHS.We recognise that public services will continue to change. ...permitted to defend themselves publicly.As a public sector union, we...
19 days ago
...portfolio of products enables public organisations to connect silo...financial management, social services and social security, case m...rovider of health systems and services, with over 2,500 health secto...We support transparency and public information initiatives right a...
83 days ago
...ow speaker presentation slides from the conference held on 2nd December, entitled "Using Customer Insight to improve the design & delivery of public services" Caroline Fawcett (delivered...
179 days ago
...us Public Sector Efficiency This...s a unique opportunity for senior public sector managers to come toget...on the delivery of modern public services. Venue: Victoria Park Plaz...this summit is free of charge to public sector managers. If you wish to...
179 days ago
The public will clear up this mess - as long as they're treated fairly
Borrowing got us into this mess. For years, banks, companies and individuals treated their properties and future income as collateral, creating vast flows of borrowed cash that in turn pushed property prices still higher. Work became less profitable than ownership; investment less valuabl...
Tags: efficiency, cuts, public services
600 days ago
New Oneplace websiteA new website comparing services in different local authorities has gone live todayA new website comparing services in different local authorities has gone live today. Oneplace draws on findings from six national inspectorates: the Audit Commission, Care Quality Commission, Of...
Tags: john denham, public services, financial management and analysis, local government
753 days ago
Comment on "The great thing about good design"
...on. I too wonder how we can build this principle into the myriad of public services. (I wonder, for example, how...reader eomloys them and find them useful in creating better designed services.... (Full article...893 days ago
Comment on "More targets? I thought they were a thing of the past"
...according to some learned reports (my first such recollection is an Audit Commisison report c2003) , is what has tended to happen in the public services. ...860 days ago
