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Mid Kent Improvement Partnership (MKIP)

Mid Kent Improvement Partnership (MKIP). Formed in 2008 Partly in response to potential Unitary Threat Kent Agreement – all Kent LA’s committed to working in collaboration Funded from a contribution by each authority Originally 4 local Authorities

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Mid Kent Improvement Partnership (MKIP)

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  1. Mid Kent Improvement Partnership(MKIP) • Formed in 2008 • Partly in response to potential Unitary Threat • Kent Agreement – all Kent LA’s committed to working in collaboration • Funded from a contribution by each authority • Originally 4 local Authorities • Ashford, Maidstone, Swale and Tunbridge Wells • Ashford chose to pull out in 2010 but retained the successful shared Audit Service

  2. Objectives • Working in partnership to: • Improve the quality of service to communities; • Improve the resilience of service delivery; • Deliver efficiency savings in the procurement, management and delivery of services; • Explore opportunities for trading in the medium to long-term; • Share best practice; and • Stabilise or reduce the environmental impact of service provision.

  3. What is MKIP? • Not a legal entity – partnership of equals • Funded by contributions from each authority • More than just shared services: • Joint procurement, sharing best practice, sharing officers • Delivered 8 shared services since 2008 • Audit, HR, Revenues and Benefits, Fraud, Legal, ICT, Planning Support, Environmental Health • 4 way, 3 way and 2 way arrangements

  4. MKIP Board and Governance • Leader and Chief Executive of each authority • Not decision making – remains with the each Cabinet and Council • Appoint shared service boards (operational) • Director of Shared Services ( recent appt.) • MKIP Programme Manager

  5. MKIP Numbers By MKIP’s 10th year (2017/18): • £2.25m annual savings • £13.3m total savings for £2.15m of investment, or • £6 return for every £1 invested Grown from 12 person Audit team in 2008/09 to over 240 staff (predicted) 2014/15

  6. MKIP – what has been learned Vision must be clearly: • Co-defined, and co-committed and co-communicated Decision making must be: • Rapid, Transparent and Strategic Sovereignty must be: Defined, Agreed and Shared ‘I can’t stand this indecision, Married with a lack of vision, Everybody wants to rule the world…’ Tears for Fears

  7. MKIP – what has been learned Staffing • Recognise that staff working in a shared environment are in a different physical and psychological space Loyalty and belonging • Be aware of the psychological contract and its affect on performance

  8. MKIP : The future? • Move 2 way partnerships to 3 way • Further shared service arrangements • Existing arrangements underpinned by consolidated ICT hardware, software and co-terminus contracts - Single Data Centre - Reduced line of Business Applications - Rationalised Telephony and Contact Centre

  9. MKIP : focus on the end game ‘Everything will be OKin the end If its not OK, we just haven’t got to the end yet…’ Attributed to John Lennon

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