Training programmes
Strategic Services Partnerships Conference
Chair's welcome and introduction
Helen Randall, Head of Public Sector Commercial, Trowers & Hamlins
Policy drivers and context for strategic service partnerships
- 3rd phase Gershon - Efficiency targets
- Shared services
- SSPs and JVs to deliver community cohesion, the Sustainable Community Strategy and Localism – New Uses of JVs and Public Private Partnerships to roll out local and sub-regional agendas
- "Post Bureaucracy" and the impact of Party policies (Labour/Conservative/Liberal Democrat)
- Asset Management
- Role of joint ventures in Urban Master Plans
- Case study based on various authorities
Malcolm Iley, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins & Paul McDermott, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins
Case study: Oldham Unity Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
Practical consideration in managing a contract
Jo Wagstaffe, Director Strategic Partnerships, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
EU procurement and strategic service partnerships
- How competitive dialogue works in practice
- Latest ECJ case law and guidance (including LAML and Liniakis)
- State Aid
Amardeep Gill, Solicitor, Trowers & Hamlins
Case Study: Hounslow revenues partnership with Liberata
Robert Della-Sala, Head of Customer Services and Nick Rowe, Head of Revenues and Benefits, London Borough of Hounslow
The Insourcing Solution
What's different about the insourcing approach?
- Avoiding potential pitfalls
- Extension and Termination Provisions
- Ensuring Contractual Certainty
Francesca Mohan, Solicitor, Trowers & Hamlins
ICT and intellectual property issues
Why they matter and what to watch out for
- The challenges of capturing the clients' functional requirements
- Ownership of Intellectual Property in new developments
- Database rights, data protection
- Meaningful termination provisions
Riccardo Abbate, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins
Case study: Swindon – Capita "Aspire" Partnership
- The role of the in-house lawyer
- Governance issues
Stephen Taylor, Director of Law and Democratic Services and Monitoring Officer, Swindon Borough Council
Key Commercial & Legal considerations in setting up a local authority joint venture
- The legality of generating new income streams
- Turning a DLO/DSO into a profitable business
- JV Companies vs Limited Liability Partnerships
- Impact of the LG and Public Involvement in Health Act on local authority entities
James Hawkins, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins
Case study: Kier Sheffield Limited Liability Partnership
Phil Taylor, Director of Performance and Resources, Sheffield City Council
Question Sessions with the expert panel of speakers
Programme directory
- Advocacy
- ASB
- Committees
- Data Protection.Freedom of Information
- Education and Children's Services
- Employment
- Environmental
- Gambling
- Head of Legal
- Highways and Rights of Way
- Housing
- Immigration Law
- Licensing
- Litigation
- Local Government
- Management
- Members Governance
- Partnering / Procurement
- Planning
- Property
- Prosecution
- Social Services
- Trading Standards