Shared Services on Primetime TV

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Editor Coda
Jul 23, 2013

Shared services made it onto the 10 o'clock news on BBC1 last night. Public spending cuts are regularly discussed in the media at the moment but it's mostly the online or the trade press that get into the nitty-gritty of how to deliver efficiencies.

This week, Prime Minister David Cameron criticised Liverpool City Council for not having a can-do attitude towards cost savings and unnecessarily cutting front-line services rather than looking in-house. To investigate the claim, the BBC asked Colm Reilly, Head of the Government Practice at professional services firm PA Consulting, to have a look at the council's books.

In the televised interview, Colm said that the council had already saved £70m in its back office. To meet its £91m target for next year, he agreed that it had to adopt a regional approach to sharing high-cost front-line services such as the fire service and street sweeping.

I'm sure shared services have been discussed on prime-time television before now, but pieces like this help build awareness of the value the shared-services concept can bring to both the public and private sectors.

Watch the news item here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12562334.

Find more news and resources in the Public Sector focus area on sharedserviceslink.com.

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