Peterborough City Council will be showcasing its innovative work
in transforming public services to other local authorities across
the country when it appears at the Society of Local Authority Chief
Executives (SOLACE) conference from Tuesday 20 October to Thursday
22 October 2009.
The council's business transformation team, including John
Harrison, the city council's executive director of strategic
resources, Paul Tonks, head of business transformation, and the
cabinet member for resources, Councillor David Seaton, will all be
on hand to talk about the city council's achievements in this area
and to offer advice to other local authorities.
Councillor Seaton said: "The city council is recognised as an
innovator in business efficiency among local authorities and the
SOLACE conference is an excellent opportunity to promote our
successes to other organisations."
John Harrison added: "This conference offers the chance for us
to profile our successes and talk to other local authorities about
how business transformation can help their organisations. We can
give them a unique insight into how they can develop their own
transformation programme, bringing greater value for money for
council tax payers as we have done here.
"Since we started our own transformation work over two years ago
we have undertaken a range of programmes which have resulted in
considerable savings while improving the services we provide to the
residents of Peterborough."
The city's council's exhibition at the SOLACE conference, which
is being held in Brighton, is being sponsored by its partners TMI
Systems and Serco.
Serco, which recently won the contract to provide a managed ICT
service for the council, will exhibit alongside the council at
SOLACE and share its expertise with other local authorities.
It will be profiling nine transformation case studies, which
have made the city council one of the fastest improving local
authorities for the use of its resources. Highlights have included:
£3.5 million cashable savings in the first year; £7.2 million
cashable savings for year two; and one of the lowest council tax
increases in the country.
There are seven transformation programmes at the city council,
which include small individual projects as well as more far
reaching ones. They are:
- Children's services transformation, which focuses on improving
the health and well-being of children and young people in
Peterborough
- Customer service transformation, which provides customers with
better, quicker and easier access to services
- Efficiency programme, reducing council costs and getting better
value for money
- Flexible working, making the best use of the most appropriate
workplace locations to enable employees to do their job more
effectively and deliver more flexible services for customers
- Growth and infrastructure, supporting the growth of
Peterborough over the next 20 years
- ICT transformation, changing the way ICT is delivered to meet
city council objectives
- Procurement programme, delivering more effective and better
value for money when purchasing goods and services
To discover more about the city council's business
transformation programme visit
www.peterborough.gov.uk/BusinessTransformation