Transformation done right is ‘with’ and not ‘to’ says LB Havering team
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Chief Operating Officer Jane West and transformation lead Susie Faulkner describe a process designed to bring staff and residents along with change.
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Counter Measures No4 - how a trusted member of staff committed a £2.1m fraud and what LB Barnet did next
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Clair Green, Director of Assurance at London Borough of Barnet tells Rachael Tiffen, Director Local Government at CIFAS, about an unprecedented fraud
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Planning across place is key to tackling challenges of ageing populations
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Andy Begley, Director of Adults, Public Health & Housing at Shropshire and Mark Barrow, Director of Place, explain the Council's ‘whole system’ response to an ageing population.
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Doteveryone on regulating for responsible technology
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Director of Policy Catherine Miller describes how the thinktank is working with regulators across all sectors on measures to counter harmful effects on society of recent and rapid digital change.
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Counter Measures No3 - Durham's anti fraud team recovers £4.5m since 2015
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Paul Bradley, Durham's Chief Internal Auditor, tells Rachael Tiffen of Cifas how Durham Council’s highly successful counter fraud programme has gone from £0 - £4.5m in five years..
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West Midlands Workforce Alliance creates "safe space" for challenging health and social care discussions
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Professor Robin Miller (University of Birmingham) and Pete Jackson (WM ADASS) tell Vicky Sargent about a new collaboration and some surprisingly upbeat outcomes.
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Leaders & Leadership 3 - leadership in a digital world
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Matt Prosser, Chief Executive of the new Dorset Council, tells Steve Cliff of Empowering You what’s required of a leader in a digital age
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Free Thinking 1 - Innovation strategies in the public sector
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Joe Tibbetts and a studio audience quiz Llewellyn Morgan who leads a team of 21 innovators at Oxfordshire County Council's iHub innovation unit
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Free Thinking 2 – people need training to be as ‘human’ as bots
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All about chatbots: Paul Tonks of Tailor Made Projects asks the questions, Emma Jackson of Monmouthshire CC and Paul Shepherd of We Build Bots provide the answers
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Circular Economy Show 4 - Biomimicry, new questions for old answers
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Dr David Greenfield asks materials designer Lucy Hughes and Richard MacCowan CEO Biomimicry UK all about design solutions that mimic the natural world.
info_outlineJoe Tibbetts talks to Richard Vize a journalist well known in the public sector/delivery of public services space, Kushi Gujral of Protect the whistleblowers charity and Georgina Charlton of Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Whistleblowing has been around for a long time as people have felt compelled, often at significant personal cost, to report wrongdoing by colleagues at work whether fraud, professional misconduct, bullying or mistreatment of people in care.
As our panel explains, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 has been a game changer, since it provides legal protection to workers from detrimental treatment or victimisation from their employer if, in the public interest, they blow the whistle on wrongdoing.
Protect runs a legally privileged confidential helpline for people in public and private sectors who want to raise concerns about something happening at work, with the majority of enquiries coming from education, health and social care.
Advances in last few years in getting organisations to take it in board are encouraging - but there is more to be done.