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Publications and thought leadership relevant to the Public Sector.

UK Public Sector Thought Leadership

Form must follow function
Implementing new business models in UK public services.
A guide for prospective Police and Crime Commissioners
An overview of the key issues that they will have to deal with from day one and a practical guide to support thinking.
From the bottom up: Influencing citizen behaviours to achieve policy outcomes
Examining the steps Government can take in order to influence citizen behaviours.
Primary Care: Today and tomorrow
A new report from the Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions examines the capacity and capability of general practice now and in the future, with a focus on GPs and general practice nurses. The report highlights the need for general practice to work differently to cope effectively with the increasing demands it faces. This will be especially pertinent as GPs take on the role of commissioners of local healthcare services.
Space-based budgeting - Improving property management in the UK public sector
The report examines how government can transform public sector property management through: better interagency coordination, greater integration of HR, IT and property strategies; improved data and performance measurement; and by creating a culture that incentivises collaboration and professionalism.
Local authority, national impact: The role for local authorities in the Free Schools and Academies policy
This paper outlines the steps local authorities should take to develop the Free Schools and Academies policy.
Negotiating the bill - The introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
As police forces contemplate reform, this report from Deloitte Insights examines the key challenges for the police and other public bodies as directly-elected Commissioners take control of local policing.
Making the grade 2011: A study of the top 10 issues facing higher education institutions
Drawing on input from leading Deloitte practitioners around the world, this report provides strategies for overcoming the higher education sector’s pressing global challenges.

Global Public Sector Thought Leadership

Red Ink Rising
This Deloitte Research report explores the path to fiscal sustainability by looking at the challenges posed by the current economic landscape and provides a framework to address these issues and navigate a successful journey.
Paths to power – Advancing women in government
Debates on the value of diversity and the empowerment and advancement of women have raged for centuries, but when it comes to gender equality, few achievements can compare with the rising role of women in government.
Cybersecurity; Everybody’s imperative
Governments everywhere need to address cybersecurity urgently in order to mitigate the threat of disruption to government operations and commerce and to enable sustainable economic growth.

Issues and trends

Demand Management: How to manage demand for public services
In this publication, we examine how demand management can operate in the provision of local public services. Chief executives and finance directors tell us where it has worked and where there are limitations.
Business Partnering: The changing role of finance in Government
Deloitte hosted a round table event for leaders across Government to explore future finance models, the potential to develop business partnering further and other features of effective finance functions and how best they can continue to evolve to support organisational objectives.
Public Finance & Deloitte supplement: Reducing fraud & error in the public sector
To support public sector organisations in tackling fraud, Deloitte hosted a collaborative workshop for public sector leaders across the sector.
Life is change. Growth is optional.
The report discusses the challenges faced by the voluntary sector and indentifies key strategic areas for charities to focus on as they look to weather the current storms and change the way that they do business.
The Green Agenda for the Public Sector CFO
Effective energy management represents one of the best options for making direct and immediate savings to operational costs.
More than just giving - Analysis of corporate responsibility across UK firms
Large UK companies have made progress to professionalise their corporate responsibility activities, but more work is needed according to the report “More than just giving”.
Choosing fewer channels: Public service channel options in an age of austerity
This paper highlights the lessons and trends of channel shift and proposes a blueprint for public bodies to optimise their business around their customers.
Lean and fit – improving frontline service in an age of austerity
In these challenging times it is going to be critical to find ways to make efficiency savings in the front-line, without damaging customer service or outcomes
Change the name on the door
This publication outlines potential machinery of government changes in the context of current and emerging public sector challenges, including cost reduction.
Calling time on quangos
The paper suggests how Deloitte’s private sector expertise of restructuring, including closing organisations and transferring services, can be applied to arm’s length bodies in the public sector

Sector specific

Sizing Up - Local Government mergers and service integration
This document identifies lessons for any local authority considering integration or merger, and suggests an approach that authorities should follow to ensure that collaboration achieves real and additive benefits.
Document Management in Local Government - Finding the real savings
Local Government organisations face the challenge of reduced budgets and the simultaneous pressure to change the way services are delivered. Investing in information assets can achieve cost savings as well as enabling a more flexible organisation, which is ready to embrace new ways of working, shared services and outsourcing. A fresh look at the benefits that Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) systems can deliver is therefore required.
Policing the spend - Cutting costs while creating a police workforce fit for the future
An examination of the current financial challenge facing the police service and consideration of the workforce-related issues in light of the Winsor review.
Identity Matters: Sustaining the identity and values of the NHS through restructuring and change
The restructuring plans outlined in the July 2010 White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS contains proposals that challenge both the structure and culture of the NHS. The alignment of these reforms with the identity and values of the NHS during the restructuring will be critical if change is to be meaningful and sustainable.
Defence Reform Review - Delivering the SDSR and the CSR
This paper suggests a range of actions that the Defence Reform Review could deploy to meet MOD’s tough operating, people and financial targets; and also suggest how MOD could meet the associated change management challenges.
Improving service delivery to an ageing population - the ageing population challenges for local authorities
The LSE report (Improving service delivery to an ageing population: strategies for UK local authorities) brings together the many different dimensions of the UK’s ageing population and models the regional implications for local authority service delivery.
Open Financial Reporting - Surveying operating and financial reviews in the higher education sector
The report sets out an analysis of the annual reports of 40 higher education institutions. Open Financial Reporting considers how the particular requirements relating to the inclusion of an Operating and Financial Review have been applied across the higher education sector.

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