East Surrey Improvement Partnership - Scoping the potential benefits of shared service delivery
A Model for Governance and Programme/Project Management
With authorities across the country under increasing financial pressures, the potential benefits of delivering services in partnership are increasingly being considered. Clusters of authorities are beginning to work together to deliver efficiencies in light of the CSR07 and other, more local drivers. In many cases the catalyst will be the selection of a particular service for potential shared delivery.
The East Surrey Improvement Partnership (ESIP) was formed in 2006 in response to a number of pressures acting on the local government environment, namely:
- Increasing quantity and sophistication of demand from local residents
- Calls from central government for local government to review its structures and services through the exploration of joint working/shared service delivery
- Increasing financial pressures introduced through mechanisms such as �Gershon� and Comprehensive Spending Review, and
- The need to develop a stronger, more credible voice for East Surrey in the light of many of the regional developments and initiatives.
