Decision details

To agree the outline business cases for the Council’s and Partners’ Public Service Transformation Programme

1.     That the progress made in developing the scope of the programme, represented by the public service transformation outline business cases, as set out in Annex A of the submitted report be noted, and officers be asked to continue developing full business cases for consideration at the February 2014 Cabinet meeting.

2.     That Surrey’s Joint Statement of Intent, as set out in Annex B of the submitted report be agreed on behalf of the council, and the Chief Executive be instructed, in discussion with the Leader, local partners and representatives of central Government, to continue to update this as the programme develops.

3.     That the offer of funding from the Transformation Challenge Award be accepted, and the Department for Communities and Local Government be thanked for its contribution to the costs of developing this important work on behalf of the relevant partners in Surrey and Sussex.

4.     That partner organisations have their own governance requirements and processes, which they will need to follow to agree and sign-off further business cases and implementation plans.

Reasons for Decisions:

Partners in Surrey have a shared ambition to transform services and outcomes for Surrey residents. The vision is that across the public sector, services will shift from an emphasis on high cost responses towards prevention and earlier intervention. The intention is for services to deliver much better value for money.

The council is working closely with partners to develop its plans for public service transformation in Surrey. The outline business cases provide the evidence, both to the council and to partners, that the case for change and potential benefits are sufficiently strong to justify more detailed work on each of the proposals.

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