Local Government Transformation

Public Services Network

The Local Government (LG) stream aims to accelerate reform by addressing the key issues in the local provision of joined up citizen centric public services. The network brings together chief executives, senior practitioners and leaders in the service provider sector to develop new thinking, and to create and share best practice.

Why participate in the local government network?

The power of the network derives from the collective experience of its public and private sector participants.

Network themes for 2010

  • Implementing the Coalition's programme for government: including the impact of Budget 2010 and the spending review
  • Sustainability in the recovery  
  • Implications of the Efficiency and Reform Group agenda for local government 
  • Implementing digital service delivery, the transparency agenda and data management
  • How to achieve 10, 20 or 30% of cost savings: practical options 
  • Routes to innovation in local services
  • Impact of devolution on local services and roles
  • Managing the workforce at a time of radical change 
  • Opportunities for transformation through new technology 
  • Other themes as determined by network participants 

Public Services Insights: best practice themes:

  • Culture change through performance management 
  • Best practice in executing rapid change
  • Sustainability in public services
  • Innovating for efficiency: cross sector working for cost effective services
  • Options for radically reducing the cost of services
  • Better working with the commercial sector 

Network benefits

  • Innovate for new insight: evidence shows that innovation comes from cross-sector exchange
  • Supporting the delivery of major efficiency savings by identifying and spreading existing and new ideas that work 
  • Financial return: invest wisely, access new improvement ideas, reduce cycle times and assure programme quality
  • Improving performance: find practical new ideas based on cross-sector experience
  • Qualifying investment priorities: distinguish rhetoric vs. reality, invest time and money on what really works, not what does not
  • Risk reduction: with better targeting of resources and spend
  • Understanding sector and market changes: better and more reliable market intelligence
  • Benchmarking effectively: in depth comparisons of success and learning across sectors to target performance improvement programmes
  • Generating credible evidence for the Board level decision making: validate strategies based on the experience and evidence from world leaders in change
  • Better public / private programmes: the collaborative programme generates better private/public understanding, relationships and programme outcomes
  • Networking: build long-term professional and personal connections

What does the network include?

  • Experience sharing groups (ESGs) 
  • Thought leadership discussions
  • Best practice development groups and publication of best practice insight outputs
  • Case studies and site visits
  • Best practice knowledge store (access to network guidelines on best practice and meeting archive with meeting insights, presentations from members and agendas).

Programme Details

Local Government Transformation Programme

Local Government Transformation Guidelines

Local Government Transformation Example Agenda

Meeting Types

Thought leadership discussion

Experience sharing groups (ESGs)

Industry insights: best practice development