Public Property Summit 2010

Event details:

Post-CSR the public sector is to move away from massive capital spend programmes to a focus on making more of existing buildings and assets, and rationalising its huge estate.

The way both central and local government manages its property assets - worth an estimated £370bn and costing £25bn a year to run (representing c. £6,000 worth of assets for every UK resident) – post CSR will come under increasingly scrutiny, from both within and without. Its rationalisation and more efficient use must be a focus for all parts of the public sector, and increasingly the Government Property Unit (GPU), post-CSR.

Capita Symonds is a lead sponsor of Public Property Summit 2010, the first event of its kind bringing public and private property professionals together to evaluate, network and gain unique market insight.

We offer a portfolio of services unmatched by our peers – fusing property and strategic real estate expertise with cutting edge design, management, planning, engineering and business skills - and we believe that collaboration across the public, private and voluntary sectors will be key to meeting the massive challenges faced by public sector property over the next five years.

Find out more about our public property expertise.

We have a number of speakers at the two-day event:

Monday 01 November (1550):

Capita Symonds Director of Business Transformation Neil McLockin will take part in the Panel Discussion: Workplace Flexibility, Rationalisation & Relocation

• What is the progress of flexible working?
• Overcoming culture issues to flexible working
• Relocation and reducing head space

Tuesday 02 November (1510)

Capita Symonds Executive Director Mark Norris will take part in the event's Keynote Debate: Have we fixed the problem?

Tuesday 02 November (1400)

Capita Symonds Director Christian Rogers delivers a seminar in the free to attend Presentation Theatre:

Can the private sector help join-up the public sector... and would it be more efficient?

Trying to separate the meaningless hype from the practical help, Capita Symonds - the UK’s number one provider of support services to local and central government - will use its experience of working in long-term strategic partnerships across the public sector to explore key question, including:

• Can Total Place / Total Capital truly deliver more joined-up public sector asset management and bottom-line savings?
• Are public sector shared services and facilities actually possible?
• Will introducing ‘flexible working’ just be management tinkering, or a transformational change in the way public services are delivered
• What role should the private sector have in transforming public service delivery – if any?

Senior Capita Symonds Directors will also be attending the conference and will be available at the Capita Symonds stand at the free exhibition throughout the event.

Find out more about on the Public Property Summit website