Central Government Efficiency

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Tuesday 30th November 2010, One Wimpole Street - London, 08:40 - 16:20

Central Government Efficiency: More with Less

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Overview

As the Chancellor, George Osbourne said in his spending review speech, tackling the deficit is unavoidable. As the spending review outlined there will be an average 19 per cent fouryear cut in departmental budgets. This will create a smaller central government, which is more strategic.

Departments will be expected to make savings through; cutting consultancy and advertising and delaying and stopping contracts and projects, costs of quango's, property costs and IT.

The government has established the Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG), led by the Cabinet Office Minister, Francis Maude. It will have a strong mandate to ensure departments work together to tackle waste, increase operational capability and reduce the deficit whilst protecting frontline services. It will also include the public sector procurement agency, Buying Solutions and the Office for Government Commerce, which will streamline cross-government operational functions, including procurement, project management, IT and Civil Service and workforce and reform functions.

In the emergency budget ( 22nd June 2010 ), the Chancellor, announced that all non-protected government department budgets will be cut over the next 4 years and there would be a two year public sector pay freeze on people earning more than £21,000.

The challenge now, is for central government and the wider public sector to get more with substantially less, ensuring that cost reduction becomes a fundamental objective within the public sector. In order to overcome this challenge, there will need to be robust management, innovative thinking and the harnessing of talent. The question is, how will this be done?

Agenda

This forum will provide delegates with a timely opportunity for in-depth analysis of the outcomes and implications of the spending review, and what they mean for your organisation. It will provide a platform for informed debate and discussion on how to achieve more with less. You will hear from the leading practitioners involved in driving the efficiency agenda, as well as hearing from best practice examples, which can be transferred to your organisation.

09:00	Registration and Coffee
09:40	Chair’s Welcome Address Clive Grace, Chair of the RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd and Hon. Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School (CONFIRMED)
09:50	Driving Efficiencies through a Strategic Approach to Structured Cost Reduction Looking beyond the short term savings and take a more radical approach to take cost out of business and sustain longer term cost reduction Taking a strategic overview to avoid deterioration of service quality in essential delivery areas Prioritising neccessity with a realistic view of costs, benefits and risks The stages of reduction: Tactical efficiency savings: Quick wins & prioritisation Strategic operational alignment: Cost:Value ratio and changing customer expectations Sustainable cost reduction: Structured cost reduction & transformational change programmes/continuous embedding of cost management and ongoing improvement Increasing operational capability and reducing waste while protecting front line services Putting innovation and efficiency at the heart of government operations – Property, communications, procurement and project management Best practice examples Keith Davis, Director, Efficiency Centre, NAO (CONFIRMED)
10:10	How Will the Savings Be Achieved? Gemma Tetlow, Senior Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies (CONFIRMED)
10:30	Efficiency to Transformation: Step Changes in Performance Alan Wilkes, Director of Propositions, Central Government, Steria (CONFIRMED)
10:50	Questions and Answers Session
11:05	Coffee and Networking
11:30	Delivering Efficiencies Through Sustainable Procurement Role and remit of the Efficiency and Reform Group Improving central government capability in procurement Purchasing goods and services that will support the sustainability of the government estate Using sustainable suppliers – Collaborative working to ensure suppliers understand and respect the need for sustainability in all goods and services supplied to the public sector Sally Collier, Executive Director, Efficiency Reform Group, Cabinet Office (CONFIRMED)
11:50	Creating a More Efficient and Productive Health System The challenge for the NHS to be increase efficiency and productivity, while improving the nation’s health The Health Bill – Providing a sustainable framework for the NHS, supporting a patient led NHS focused on outcomes Delivering the commitment to reduce bureaucracy – How can it be done? Improving efficiency by strengthening the role of the CQC and developing monitor into an economic regulator What is the future of health quangos? Transforming commissioning – Putting power into the hands of GP’s and creating integrated, cost-effective care Redefining and valuing the frontline Anita Charlesworth, Chief Economist, Nuffield Trust (CONFIRMED)
12:10	Delivering Efficiencies and Improving Services Through ICT: Kent Public Sector Network The Kent Public Service Network (KPSN) – A single ICT infrastructure serving all 14 of Kent’s councils and Kent Police and Kent Fire and Rescue Links 1,100 and 250,000 service users with high-speed, high capacity broadband Savings and efficiencies - £8 million in network provision over next two years and other savings through centralised network procurement and network services Creating new improved and efficient ways or working – Cutting travel costs and time and carbon footprint Enabling activity-based billing for cost allocation for departments/partners sharing facilities Enhancing public services – One-stop shops for services on the high street, increased shared services, such as building control and revenues and benefits and increased standards of service across Kent Creating a more transferable workforce through sharing of ICT systems New opportunities – Helping government shape future PSNs, creating a better offer for potential partners, increased buying power Lessons to be shared Jeff Wallbank, Partnership Development Manager, Kent Public Sector Network (CONFIRMED)
12:30	Cutting Costs At The Desktop Paul Gullett, Vice President, EMEA, N-Computing (CONFIRMED)
12:50	Questions and Answers Session
13:05	Lunch and Networking
14:05	Cutting Emissions, Driving Efficiencies The new carbon trust programme for central government Reducing carbon emissions across the Whitehall estate by 10 per cent within 12 months Using public sector energy efficiency savings to make cash savings Driving government to exceed the carbon reduction target by 34 per cent by 2020 Larissa Lockwood, Public Sector Manager - Local and Central Government Estate, The Carbon Trust (CONFIRMED)
14:25	How to Deliver More and Better for Less: Driving Performance Improvements through Engaging your Employees How to engage your people to deliver significantly better performance - harnessing the talents of every single person within your organisation. The importance of leadership in: Giving employees the know-how Trusting employees to make a difference Unlocking employees potential An overview of the architecture of change that will deliver long-term sustainable benefits Steve Riddlestone, Unipart Expert Practices (CONFIRMED)
14:45	Questions and Answers Session
14:55	Coffee and Networking
15:20	The London Efficiency Challenge Creating political choice, by freeing resources for other priorities Providing a perspective on efficiency, to form the basis for improvement plans Enabling councils to learn from each other and apply best practice Helping London authorities and their partners re-model and improve services Providing better VFM Paving the way for a new balance in the relationship between regulators, funders and local government Ben Sellar-Moore, Project Manager, London Efficiency Challenge, London Councils (CONFIRMED)
15:40	Questions and Answers Session
15:50	Chair's Summary and Close

*programme subject to change without notice

Central Government Efficiency

Tuesday 30th November 2010, One Wimpole Street - London, 08:40 - 16:20

Central Government Efficiency: More with Less

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