The Department for Education is moving from the traditional civil service way of working which will result in wide-scale cuts in running costs.
The changes will involve a move away from the old hierarchical civil service structure towards more flexible, project based teams. One result will be a loss of about 1,000 jobs, which represents a quarter of its total workforce.
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Sharing is an increasingly important element of local public services sourcing strategy with benefits extending well beyond cost saving says latest Socitm Pocket Guide.
The Guide, from the Society of IT Management, describes sharing as one of the strategic capabilities required for local public service reform.
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Local government pension funds could soon be made available build more homes, roads or high speed railway under new proposals.
The proposals potentially allow councils to double the amount they can legally invest from their pension funds directly into key infrastructure projects in a new and more efficient way that ensures long-term value for the taxpayer. Lifting the restrictions controlling local pension investments could pump a further £22billion directly into job creating infrastructure projects.
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With 4G imminent, public service managers should be thinking hard about implications of this new development in a world where 3G has already made mobile internet use routine.
This warning comes from the Society for IT Management in a report ‘4G mobile telephony: coming to a town near you?’ The report sets out the challenges and opportunities and provides advice about what local public service organisations need to do about them.
Leading pensions analyst Michael Johnson reveals that the cashflow shortfall between public sector contributions and pensions in payment are rising to unsustainable levels.
A report from the Centre for Policy Studies claims that another round of public sector pension reforms will be required before 2020. By this time there will be an annual burden on taxpayers of some £32 billion compared to £15.4 billion in 2016-17. This is equivalent to £1,230 for every household in the country. Nearly £4 out of every £5 paid in pensions to former public sector workers will come from the taxpayer.
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