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Preserving outcomes with fewer resources: The financial dimension

Preserving outcomes with fewer resources: The financial dimension. Allan Hampshire Head of Public Health & Protection. Cornwall Council. Created April 2009 Second largest unitary 7 councils into 1 550,000 residents 22,000 staff Billion £ budget. New regulatory service created.

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Preserving outcomes with fewer resources: The financial dimension

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  1. Preserving outcomes with fewer resources:The financial dimension • Allan Hampshire • Head of Public Health & Protection

  2. Cornwall Council • Created April 2009 • Second largest unitary • 7 councils into 1 • 550,000 residents • 22,000 staff • Billion £ budget

  3. New regulatory service created • Public Health & Protection • Environmental Health • Trading Standards • Licensing • Port Health • Registration • 340 staff • £12m gross budget • 23 offices

  4. Saving requirement • 2009/2010 • 10% service budget • £1.12m • 2010/2011 • 5% service budget • £600k

  5. Economies of scale

  6. Slimdown & flatten management • 38 to 20 senior manager • Area managers • -manage area teams • -countywide strategic coordinator • Structure delivers: • -Local accountability (flexibility) • -Consistency • -Targeted & integrated enforcement action

  7. Increase income • Fees & charges • Pest control • Invest to save

  8. Amalgamate and size up contracts • Pest control • Stock condition surveys • Air quality monitoring • Food & water analysis

  9. Rationalise accommodation • Work from fewer offices • Hot desking • Home working • Watch out for creeping mileage costs!!

  10. Integrated ICT system • Invest to save • Longer term revenue savings: • -Over legacy system costs • -Admin support • Critical for: • -Integration • -Being intelligence led

  11. Outsourcing v’s in house provision • Outsourced : • Pest control • Lower risk hygiene insp. • Air quality monitoring • Sampling & analysis • Delicate balance: • Reduce costs • Know what get for money • Reduced flexibility • Reduces potential for integration • Can increase in house demand

  12. Lessons learnt • Invest in getting the no’s right • Don’t put off big savings • Be realistic about timing of savings • Being bigger makes it easier

  13. Thank you for listening

  14. Cornwall CouncilCounty HallTruro TR1 3AYTel: 0300 1234 100www.cornwall.gov.uk

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