Purpose
The panel exists to:-
- Share good practice and ideas.
- Influence Government policy and legislation.
- Work with suppliers on long term trends on management in local government.
- Be the principal point of contact with SOCITM.
Membership
The panel is open to all Chief Executives, senior member and partner organisations of SOLACE. It has a completely open membership policy – just turn up.
Organisation
The panel is hosted by SOLACE, usually at the SOLACE offices in London. The Chair is appointed for a 2-3 year period and organisational support is provided by that individual’s organisation as well as support from the SOLACE office.
Work Programme
The panel has operated in a workshop style looking
at topics suggested by panel members. Over the
last three years, these have included:
- Service transformation – precursor to the Varney report and the Local Government White Paper.
- Leadership, particularly the Member/Officer interface.
- e-democracy
- CPA
- Shared Services
- Neighbourhood engagement
Learning Resources
After each meeting the slide presentations will be added to the learning resources section.
To view slide presentation from previous meetings, click here.
Future work Programme
Topics suggested included:
- Business Transformation
- Digital Challenge
- A comparison between two-tier, pathfinder and unitary approaches – quite ambitious and perhaps a little longer term
