The Clyde Valley Community Planning Partnership (CVCPP) project would see the participating councils prioritise shared services in four areas. Business cases are being prepared to find savings of between 10-20% of existing expenditure, totalling up to £70m over the next five years.
The eight councils – West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire – have been investigating which areas they could collaborate on since an independent review on shared services recently identified significant opportunities.
The waste management proposals would see the shared use of new waste treatment facilities, joint arrangements on recycling, and the potential of Scottish Government funding for a Clyde Valley-wide solution for non-recyclable residual waste.
Health and social care could be streamlined by further developing Telehealth initiatives, improving commissioning and procurement across children’s and adult’s services, and pooling training.
The councils are also seeking to share services in social transport and support services.
In social transport money could be saved through joint efficiency and improvement such as sharing fleet resources and the creation of a single shared transport service.
Cllr Ronnie McColl, chair of the CVCPP, said: ‘Every Council in Scotland is currently facing the most significant budget gap in living memory. The CVCPP shared services project will help contribute towards meeting that challenge, in a way that reduces the burden on the taxpayer and still provides good levels of service to the local community.’
The partnership also includes agencies such as the Police, Fire and Rescue, the NHS, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and Chamber of Commerce.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Robin Mannering
Quelle/Source: LocalGov, 02.11.2010
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