Guardian Public Service Summit Plotting the Next Five Years

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Guardian Public Service SummitPlotting the Next
Five Years

• Sir Michael Bichard

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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Resource Pressures
• Raised Expectations
• Complex Challenges
• Huge Cost of Failure, and ...
• Ageing Population

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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Reinvent Government
• Re-engineer National Local Relationships
• Refocus on Citizens

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There is no perfect answer!
Government effectiveness rating, 2007
World Bank Governance indicators, based on
survey findings
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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Reinventing Government
• Strategic Leadership
• Connected Policy and Delivery
• Capacity to Influence Behaviour .... And
• Innovation

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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Innovation and Leaders
• Leading by Example
• Reshaping Incentives
• Building Capacity
• Increasing Levels of Energy
• Managing Risk and Failure
• Revisiting Organisational Structures
• Reducing Narrow Targets
• Building Partnerships
• Connecting with the Front Line

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Yes, system can stifle innovation...

• Barnsley advocated DWPs policy allowing
  job-seekers to keep portions of benefits on
  return to work early in the decade but werent
  allowed to
• Local Authority Chief Executive

We would like to be much more creative around
the way we do it to deliver the outcomes we
agreed, but we are restricted because of the way
the money comes down and the way it is monitored
separately by the National Treatment
Agency Public Safety Director
Source IfG interviews
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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Reinventing Government
• Strategic Leadership
• Connected Policy and Delivery
• Capacity to Influence Behaviour
• Innovation
• Commissioning Outcomes
• Focusing on the Future

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Plotting the Next Five Years

• Government which is
• Smaller
• More Focused
• Devolved
• Facilitating
• Innovative
• Joined Up

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Plotting the Next Five Years

• One Place
• Increase the Incentives for Local Partnerships
• Halve the Performance Indicators
• Reduce Targets
• Redress Balance Between CAA and Silo Regulation
• Scale Up Local Initiatives That Work
• Increase Practical Support for Innovation
• Build Service Design Capacity Innovative

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Guardian Public Service SummitPlotting the Next
Five Years

• Sir Michael Bichard