Shared Services

Shared Services

The aim of the Shared Services subgroup was to bring forward proposals for the delivery of a range of shared and regional services across local government, by:

- identifying the principles that might underlie the choice, governance and delivery of shared and regional services;

- identifying the range of services that might be delivered on a shared or regional basis;

- identifying those services which might be delivered on a mandatory regional basis across all new councils, as well as those services which can be delivered on a voluntary opt in/opt out basis;

- developing proposals for the governance arrangements in relation to shared or regional services delivery;

- developing legislative proposals to underpin/enable the delivery of shared or regional services;

- identifying good practice in shared and regional services delivery;

- identifying the potential for co-operation with other elements of the public sector in relation to the delivery of shared services;

- exploiting synergies between the work of the Shared Services Sub-group and other sub-groups of the Local Government Taskforce;

- identifying, where appropriate, the respective roles and responsibilities of shared or regional services and individual councils;

- developing a funding model for the delivery of shared or regional services;

- developing proposals for the implementation of shared or regional services model across local government;

- advising the Local Government Taskforce on issues in respect of shared services.

Recommendations to the Taskforce

The recommendations from the subgroup represented the thinking of key stakeholders on the key issues, to help inform the decisions of the Taskforce will continue through the work of the Policy Development Panels.

Shared Services recommendations to Taskforce(120KB)

Other Documents

CIPFA Paper - Shared Services: The opportunities and issues for public sector organisations(244KB)
CEHOG Paper - Delivering effective Environmental Health Services(64.5KB)
NIFRS Transfer Paper(20.4KB)
Planning Service Paper - The potential for Shared Services(46.5KB)
Scotland Consultation paper - "A shared approach to building a better Scotland". (335KB)
Cabinet Office's "Transformational Government: Enabled by Technology"(405KB)
Building Control in Northern Ireland - RPA paper(78.2KB)
Membership List(29.3KB)

HM Treasury website: Review of Civil Procurement in Central Government.

Minutes of Meetings

10 May 2006(36KB)
5 June 2006(32KB)
19 June 2006(45.4KB)