I am actively contributing to the consultation on the Social Care Reform white paper call ‘Caring for our future’. In my view there is an encouraging vision for the future which is getting hampered by policy makers holding onto some ineffective ideas about how markets operate, as well as an absence of blueprint for how to make this vision practical. However we believe we have a virtually proven design for a system which could deliver this vision consistently across the country. Read full article »
Archive for the ‘Public Sector’ Category
Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support – turning ambitions into realities
Tuesday November 15th 2011
Charteris brings local authorities insight, savings, greater efficiencies – and bird nesting-boxes – at the National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC)
Tuesday November 15th 2011
Today, local authorities simply have no alternative but to find ways to improve service quality while cutting costs. Read full article »
Adult Social Care – Making triangles out of boxes
Monday November 7th 2011
Meeting Performance Challenges In Local Government
Monday October 20th 2008
Here are the 5 key performance issues facing Local and Regional Government right now:
- There is no common understanding of hundreds of performance indicators (PIs)
- Accessing the data necessary to derive each PI is difficult
- The quality of data is poor
- The cost of reporting is high
- Use of performance reporting is poor
Andrew Rogoyski, Head of Public Sector at Charteris, explores these further and covers the ways the LRG’s might look to address them in his paper on “Performance Management for Local and Regional Government Organisations in England” below.