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APSE annual seminar
2010: Financial Armageddon or Managed Transformation? Where next for local government’s front line? Derry, 8-9 September 2010 |
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| Session 1: Where to now for public finances? |
| The show must go on! - Lucy Makinson, Director of Efficiency, Department for Communities and Local Government |
| Poundstretcher council? - Michael Hughes, Director of Studies, Audit Commission |
| Achieving success through collaboration - a local governments chief executive perspective - Anne Donaghy, Chief Executive, Ballymena Borough Council |
| Session 2: Delivering on neighbourhoods and communities |
| Resilient local economies - Neil McInroy, Chief Executive, Centre for Local Economic Strategies |
| Know your place - Judith Barnes, Partner, Eversheds LLP |
| Delivering on Healthy Communities - Lynda Mitchell, LACA (Local authority caterers association) |
| The value of neighbourhoods - Dr Steven Griggs, De Montfort University |
| Session 3: Motivational address |
| Why we need strong and positive leadership skills and innovative thinking to move public services forward - Pascoe Sawyers Programme Manager, Political Leadership Leadership & Talent, IDeA |
| Thematic sessions (1 to 5) |
| Thematic session 1: Elected Members |
| Thematic session 2: Environmental services |
| Thematic session 3: Healthy Communities |
| Thematic session 4: Roads, highways and street lighting |
| Thematic session 5: Housing and regeneration |
| Session 4: Transforming service delivery |
| Trading company - Nic Cox, Managing Director, Solutions SK |
| Is there a role for the private sector? - Martin Joyce, Managing Director, Enterprise plc |
| Can returning a service to an in-house provider deliver improvements? - Mark Seed, Director of Environmental Services, Thanet District Council |
| The importance of the frontline - Valerie Watts, Chief Executive, Derry City Council |
| Session 5: Motivational address |
| Binning targets, improving services - John Seddon, Leading writer on organisational transformation and systems thinking. |
| Session 6: A transformational environment |
| Waste to Energy - Julie Muscroft, Partner, Walker Morris |
| Greening Cornwall - Stephen Cirell, Director, Green Cornwall, Cornwall County Council |
| Are shared services the way forward? - Iain Waddell, Managing Director, Tayside Contracts |
| Excellence in delivery workshops (6 to 10) |
| Workshop 6: Facilities management |
| Workshop 7: Roads and street lighting |
| Workshop 8. Building maintenance and construction |
| Workshop 9: Environmental services |
| Workshop 10: Leisure and cultural facilities |
