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Newer posts →. October 3, 2012 · 2:29 pm. Prosperous Places: Leadership for a sustainable future. Yet again local government’s role is being reshaped by political and economic forces. As councils cut budgets and prepare to sink the knife still deeper, they are increasingly sharing and leveraging power rather than exerting control. As the scale of the cuts became clear many predicted industrial scale reform of the way local government was run. So far the reality has been more prosaic. Few councill...Nonet...
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SOLACE Summit 2012 | SOLACE Blog
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Prosperous Places: Leadership for a sustainable future. The SOLACE Summit is the UK’s largest gathering of local authority Chief Executives and senior managers. Between 16. October it will be the meeting place for leaders in public service management. The Summit is a call to local government chief executives and senior managers and our partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors – to come together, to learn, to debate and to shape local government’s programme of action. Enter your comment here.
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Business Partners | SOLACE Blog
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Launched in 2001, the SOLACE Corporate Partner Programme is active public-private partnership between the corporate business community, SOLACE and its members. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new posts via email.
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Time to Act | SOLACE Blog
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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Autumn Chill →. November 21, 2012 · 9:11 am. Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England, speaks about the interim findings of her Office’s nationwide inquiry into the scope, scale and prevalence of child sexual exploitation in gangs and groups in England. I thought I was the only one. The Only one in the world. Sexual exploitation and abuse are not the sole preserve of difficult, downtrodden or otherwise challenged areas, and the...
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A budget round like no other | SOLACE Blog
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Prosperous Places: Leadership for a sustainable future. A seasonal message help yourself! October 10, 2012 · 11:00 am. A budget round like no other. The worst summer for weather has strangely produced a feeling of euphoria throughout the country because of the Olympics and the achievements of our British athletes. As Wilkins Micawber in Charles Dickens’s ‘David Copperfield’ pointed out: The ability to match expenditure and income is the only true path to happiness. Corporate shroud waving and warnings of...
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A seasonal message – help yourself! | SOLACE Blog
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A budget round like no other. Funding social care – finding a solution now →. October 24, 2012 · 12:00 pm. A seasonal message help yourself! The process for cost reduction is simple:. 1 Know how your services are performing – not just against last year but against others. 2 Re-engineer your services to match the best of breed, getting help if it is needed to boost short run skills gaps. 3 If you have done all you can, benchmark again. And then if more is needed:. Local authorities can help themselves but...
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Autumn Chill | SOLACE Blog
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December 14, 2012 · 3:19 pm. Long before the last warmth from our spectacular summer had past, local government Chief Executives were bracing themselves for the cold wind of financial constraint and impenetrable spending decisions. This year’s Autumn Statement merely reiterates the formidable challenges that lie ahead for providers of local services. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting ...
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“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” | SOLACE Blog
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A provocation for local government. Time to Act →. November 15, 2012 · 2:20 pm. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde’s famous words might well describe the world of local government today and could be the motto of some chief executives. As council budgets are cut, there is a band of people who see an opportunity to change the status quo when it comes to partnerships with the private sector in their local area. Neither likes ceding control – not the private s...
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A provocation for local government | SOLACE Blog
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Funding social care – finding a solution now. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. →. November 7, 2012 · 6:06 pm. A provocation for local government. Simon Fanshawe, consultant, broadcaster, non-exec director and co-founder of the ground-breaking consultancy astar-fanshawe. Addressed local authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers at this year’s SOLACE Summit. Below Simon highlights his key challenges to the sector; you can read his speech in full here. Also it’s worth r...
