These have existed as a change option for local government for a number of years.  This constitutes the merging of services between organisations and can be geared to deliver efficiency savings thorough reductions to overheads and/or performance improvements.

 

Resources

 

• Audit Commission – Local review guide: Shared services
• Local Government Association - Shared Services
• Local Government Association - National Map of shared Services
• House of Commons Library Standard Note – Local government: Shared services outsourcing unitary authorities
• IDeA - Setting up HR shared services in local government
• LGSS - LGSS is one of the largest public sector shared services ventures of its kind in the UK, wholly owned by Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire county councils.
• Lichfield District Council – Our shared services and service delivery partnerships
• Practical Law – Shared Services in the public sector: Key legal issues
• Procurement Lawyers Association – Shared services working group
• Unison – Branch guide to shared services