Williams Commission on Public Sector Governancy & Delivery

[Ruth Dineen]

Interesting reading for co-pro fans...here's the jolly conclusion:

7.16

The basic purpose and nature of public service needs to be redefined. The key features of that redefinition are:

A clearer shared vision and sense of common purpose between government at all levels, citizens, and communities;

A much greater focus on co-production with citizens and communities to identify and implement means of pursuing those outcomes; and

Consequently, a much stronger emphasis on enablement, empowerment and prevention in the design and delivery of public services.

7.17

This is the only way of sustaining viable and high-quality public services. No public sector system can

continue to meet growing levels of demand for high-cost responsive services from declining real resources; the emphasis has to shift to reducing demand for such services through prevention and co-production. Even if those pressures did not exist, there would be a strong case in principle for making this kind of change and reconnecting government and public service more intimately with those that they serve, particularly in a small country. Ageing populations and shrinking budgets make that case absolutely unarguable.

So now we just need to do it!

[Martin Rolph]

Ruth

Many thanks for picking these out so soon. As well as critically important messages in themselves, a useful counterpoint to what most of the initial media is/will be about  (the "I don't want my Vale of Glamorgan/Monmouthshire/Ceredigion/Ynys Mon etc to merge with.............." response)

Martin Rolph

ps credibility not aided by "Governancy"!

[Ruth Dineen]

Hi Martin! I think you're right re the majority of media responses. So we need to make a song and dance about the co-pro emphasis so that it doesn't get lost...How are things with you? R