4 July 2011
Jonathan Goring Managing Director, Capita Symonds, will be
speaking at a Capita Symonds sponsored session at this year’s Civil
Service Live which takes place from 5-7 July at London
Olympia.
Now in its fourth year, Civil Service Live is
the largest gathering of civil servants designed to inspire
innovation and promote best practice across all government
departments and agencies.
The Capita Symonds session ‘It's not about
the costs’ takes place on Tuesday 05 July
(1350-1450). Facilitated by Peter Riddell (Senior Fellow,
Institute for Government and former Times political commentator),
the panel includes Jonathan Goring; Sir Gus O’Donnell (Cabinet
Secretary);
Fiona Spencer (Director of Shared Services,
Home Office); and Gerry Smith (Director, Shared Services, Finance
and Corporate Services, Ministry of Justice). The session summary
is below:
Civil servants are rightly focusing on
cutting costs, which shines the spotlight on staff cuts as the
prime means of achieving targets. There are, however, other ways of
closing the gap. Joint Ventures or Partnerships with the private
sector will enable Civil Servants to broaden their horizons, by
working on non-departmental programmes, possibly across other
departments or even with the private sector.
We also look at the large shortfall in revenue collection, which
could contribute to targets. In the same way that your TV licence
is collected by the private sector, a private sector partner could
stem the £billions in lost revenue, through non-collection of
rents, licence fees, court fees and other collectable income. The
target could be to raise collection rates from 70% in some
departments, to over 95%.
Capita will also host a session ‘Service
Birmingham: A Case Study in Public-Private Joint Venturing’
which takes place from on Wednesday 06 July
(1110–1210).
Speakers are Cllr Paul Tilsley MBE, Deputy
Leader, Birmingham City Council; Stephen Hughes, Chief Executive,
Birmingham City Council; Glyn Evans, Assistant to the Chief
Executive on Transformation, Birmingham City Council; and Roger
Metcalfe, Capita. The synopsis is:
Learn about the challenges and
opportunities involved in establishing a public-private joint
venture. Birmingham City Council teamed up with Capita in 2006 to
create Service Birmingham. Five years on explore the benefits for
the Council, Birmingham's citizens and the 500 seconded staff
involved in creating a new business model for public service
delivery, and how it needs to adapt to the new financial
circumstances facing the City Council.
Click
here to visit the Civil Servive Live website.