Capita announces details of its Community Budgets Conference

Published by Fran_Langham for Capita Conferences in Local Government

Friday 3rd February 2012 - 11:29am

Monday 30^th April 2012 – Central London

Chair: Joe Simpson, Principal Strategic Adviser, Local Government Association

Expert speakers include:

Jo Killian Chief Executive Essex County Council
Steve Robinson Chief Executive
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Steve Wyler Chief Executive Locality
Trevor Worsfold Director of Leicester Local Delivery Unit Leicestershire and Rutland Probation Trust and Lead for Community Budgets Probation Chiefs Association
Jo Webber Deputy Policy Director NHS Confederation
Neville Rainford Neighbourhood Manager Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames

With plans to give local agencies greater control over budgets and resources recently announced, Capita’s 5th National Community Budgets conference successfully explores the radical service transformation to address local issues more effectively through a single pooled budget.

This event offers an early opportunity to explore the newly announced ‘whole place’ and neighbourhood-level pilot areas following the original pilots with families with complex needs.

Getting to grips with this innovative community budget approach to service delivery is vital to all stakeholders. Attend to understand how innovative, cost-efficient services with improved outcomes can be delivered in your area.

Benefits of Attending

Hear two Chief Executives of 'whole place' community budget pilots explain their preparations, challenges and ambitions
Examine how a new neighbourhood-level pilot area is developing their model based on their experiences as a Local Integrated Services (LIS) pilot
Learn valuable lessons from the information sharing exemplar project on data management
Explore how community budget principles can be applied to other high-spend areas including older people’s services and environmental issues
Discover the vital role that the voluntary sector will play in engaging local communities
Get to grips with financial modelling and how to analyse cost-benefits in order to identify savings
Understand how new Health and Wellbeing Boards could provide opportunities for place-based working and joined up commissioning