Creating a Coherent Public Service Reform Strategy and Narrative: Living within Your Means

• What are the implications of the Spending review on departments and public services?
  

Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair, Public Accounts Select Committee (CONFIRMED)

Panel Debate: A New Financial Landscape

• Using the spending review to progress greater financial autonomy to local government
  
• Providing opportunities for frontline bodies to work together across traditional boundaries
  
• The local government finance review
  

Mike Freer MP, Member, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, Conservatives (CONFIRMED)
Stephen Bubb, Chief Executive, ACEVO (CONFIRMED)

Panel Debate: Creating a Healthy, Fairer and Safer Society

This highly interactive session will provide in-depth discussion of the implications of the spending review on four vital areas - Health, Welfare, Education and Criminal Justice. It will provide delegates with a timely opportunity to hear from and question leading thinkers in these areas on what the Spending Review will mean for you and your organisation. Topics that will be covered include:

• Using the spending review to integrate services and drive efficiencies
  
• Delivering the guarantee of increased health spending in real terms each year of the parliament
  
• How can we achieve more positive educational outcomes with less?
  
• The future of further education funding
  
• The Pupil Premium
  
• The broader welfare reform strategy
  
• Limiting the impact of reductions in spending on the most vulnerable in society
  
• Protecting the quality of key frontline services to provide support for the worst off in society
  
• Generating greater efficiencies from the use of the police force
  
• Modernising and making more effective use of the court estate
  
• Promoting local co-operation
  
• Increasing outcomes and transparency over how money is spent
  

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Former Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Liberal Democrats (CONFIRMED)
Blair Gibbs, Head, Crime and Justice Unit, Policy Exchange (CONFIRMED)
James Gubb, Director Health Unit, Civitas (CONFIRMED)
Tony Dolphin, Senior Economist, ippr (CONFIRMED)
Julian Astle, Director, Centreforum (CONFIRMED)

The Government’s Perspective

• What does the spending review mean for you? Delivering a step change in the drive for efficiency
  
• Creating a strategic approach to spending
  
• Ensuring departmental accountability for achieving more for less
  
• Thinking innovatively about the role of government in society
  
• Using all available talents to ensure the delivery of a stronger society as well as a smaller state
  

Norman Lamb MP, Chief Parliamentary and Political Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrats (CONFIRMED)