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Project Pathway – UK’s first live testing of Public Sector Network

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This week sees the successful completion of Project Pathway, heralding the introduction of the UK’s first compliant Public Services Network (PSN) under the auspices of the Government’s ICT Strategy launched earlier this year. Project Pathway involved Hampshire County Council, Kent County Council, Global Crossing, Virgin Media Business and the pan-Government PSN Team working in concert [...]

Cornwall’s vision for Shared Services. Joint Venture partnership sought for 10 year plus collaboration.

on 04/08/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in News

Cornwall Council and its local health partners share a vision that high quality shared services will be delivered and traded from Cornwall. Achieving the vision will fulfilled via an incremental partnership with a major organisation that will offer commercial, consulting and implementation expertise. The partner that commits to working with them on a collaborative basis [...]

Latest roundup of resources, features, reports, articles and news. 12/7/2011

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As a short preamble to this latest round up we’d like to request your input to a short survey that will be launched later on today determining what (if any?!) progress your organisation has made with the General Power of Competence and the launch this week of the Open Public Services White Paper. Those familiar [...]

The flaws of FiReControl & lessons learnt. Valuable insight of tech’ for future of fire rescue control published.

on 07/07/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in Features, News

The publication of responses to the “Future of fire and rescue control services in England” consultation by Government delivers a valuable insight identifying not just factors contributing to the failure of the FiReControl fiasco but providing some valuable lessons for shaping the future of fire and rescue control services in England. Whilst Fire Minister Bob [...]

Claim your free entry into the marketplace directory for collaboration in public services

on 05/07/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in Features, News

Maintaining, sustaining and delivering services that support people and communities who need them most is an increasing challenge. We’re developing a marketplace directory to enable people (and organisations) to reach out, match and connect their needs with resources, services, people and expertise in minutes. Why? To enable you to: Identify suitable partnerships and/or establish an [...]

£469 million cost of failure FiReControl IT project

on 01/07/2011 · 2 Comments">2 Comments · in Features, News, Research

The project to replace the 46 Fire and Rescue Services’ local control rooms across England with nine purpose-built regional control centres linked by a new IT system has been a comprehensive failure, according to the National Audit Office. The Department for Communities and Local Government acted to cut its losses by terminating the contract in [...]

New deal for Joint Venture contract

on 28/06/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in News

• Council set to refresh Joint Venture contract with BT • £9 million discount plus £17.5 million investment in ICT • £18 million for housing, social care and apprenticeship projects Liverpool City Council is set to refresh its Joint Venture contract with BT after securing an improved deal. Liverpool Direct Limited was formed in 2001 [...]

New Police National Database to provide greater protection for the public

on 24/06/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in News

THE PARENTS of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have welcomed the introduction of a powerful new tool to help Police Authorities and other crime-fighting organisations protect the public more effectively. Launched today, the Police National Database (PND) allows Police Authorities to share and access locally held intelligence and information with other forces, enabling [...]