News Item: : Outside In Seminar on strategic commissioning
(Category: Misc)
Posted by Paul Kelly
Thursday 07 January 2010 - 22:24:23
Outside In Seminar
Wednesday 17th February 2010
Camden Centre, Euston Rd, London WC1H 9AU
As well as considering option appraisals of how we can get good service delivery systems in place that are fit for purpose, the seminar will also offer different models of delivery, including contracting out to trusts and the commercial sector to provide future cultural services. With case studies, keynote presentations, breakout sessions and discussion forums, the seminar will seek scope the future landscape in which we will all work across England and Wales.
The programme is crucial to officers and elected members involved in both policy and practice related to cultural service delivery and will offer a unique opportunity to explore the wider cultural infrastructure with common cross cutting agenda shared by local authorities and national government.Delegates will hear about policy and practice from a range of high profile national speakers and discuss the themes of the improvement agenda, identifying how strategic commissioning and different methods of providing cultural services can be developed to best serve local communities.
The seminar is a partnership programme between the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (nalgao) and the National Culture Forum (NCF), the unique networking mechanism established in 2005 to provide a central voice for public sector culture. The seminar is also in association with Cultural Improvement Partnership Groups in the SE, SW and London regions.
The morning session will focus on strategic commissioning and better mechanisms for providing cultural services. The afternoon will consider a forward-looking agenda, considering the changing cultural landscape that we work in and will include research and development of cultural service commissioning in different cross-cutting themes, including:
• Culture and heath
• Children’s services,
• Stronger & Safer Communities and
• Social care
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by Paul Kelly
Thursday 07 January 2010 - 22:24:23
Outside In SeminarWednesday 17th February 2010
Camden Centre, Euston Rd, London WC1H 9AU
This major one-day national seminar will explore strategic commissioning and how local authorities may need to adapt to meet the growing demands for continuing cultural service development against the downturn in the national economy. It will consider how local authorities can get responsive delivery systems in place which are fit for task and how to access commissioning areas, with consideration of alternative forms of service delivery to meet the needs of the crosscutting agenda.
The seminar will also launch a new case study report ‘Outside In’ which looks at options and issues concerned with externalising local authority arts service delivery.
Keynote speakers include:
• Derrick Anderson CBE, Chief Executive of London Borough of Lambeth
• Martyn Allison, National Advisor for Cultural Services, Improvement & Development
Agency (IDeA)
• Linden Rowley, Principal Associate, Institute of Community Cohesion & Associate of IDeA and
• Lorna Brown, Chair of nalgao & Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy at West Sussex CC
Click here to download the Outside In Seminar brochure.
The seminar will also launch a new case study report ‘Outside In’ which looks at options and issues concerned with externalising local authority arts service delivery.
Keynote speakers include:
• Derrick Anderson CBE, Chief Executive of London Borough of Lambeth
• Martyn Allison, National Advisor for Cultural Services, Improvement & Development
Agency (IDeA)
• Linden Rowley, Principal Associate, Institute of Community Cohesion & Associate of IDeA and
• Lorna Brown, Chair of nalgao & Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy at West Sussex CC
Click here to download the Outside In Seminar brochure.
As well as considering option appraisals of how we can get good service delivery systems in place that are fit for purpose, the seminar will also offer different models of delivery, including contracting out to trusts and the commercial sector to provide future cultural services. With case studies, keynote presentations, breakout sessions and discussion forums, the seminar will seek scope the future landscape in which we will all work across England and Wales.
The programme is crucial to officers and elected members involved in both policy and practice related to cultural service delivery and will offer a unique opportunity to explore the wider cultural infrastructure with common cross cutting agenda shared by local authorities and national government.Delegates will hear about policy and practice from a range of high profile national speakers and discuss the themes of the improvement agenda, identifying how strategic commissioning and different methods of providing cultural services can be developed to best serve local communities.
The seminar is a partnership programme between the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers (nalgao) and the National Culture Forum (NCF), the unique networking mechanism established in 2005 to provide a central voice for public sector culture. The seminar is also in association with Cultural Improvement Partnership Groups in the SE, SW and London regions.
The morning session will focus on strategic commissioning and better mechanisms for providing cultural services. The afternoon will consider a forward-looking agenda, considering the changing cultural landscape that we work in and will include research and development of cultural service commissioning in different cross-cutting themes, including:
• Culture and heath
• Children’s services,
• Stronger & Safer Communities and
• Social care
This news item is from nalgao
( http://www.nalgao.org/news.php?extend.69 )