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Mid and South Bedfordshire Distrit Councils (Central Bedfordshire)

A major business harmonisation exercise that saw the creation of a new Unitary Council by combining the functions of 2 District Councils and the County Council functions.

Central Bedfordshire Council is a new unitary Council formed from Mid Beds DC and South Beds DC and Bedfordshire County Council.

In December 2008, Modena completed delivery of a project that has delivered:

  • A business case and project plan, for the delivery of efficiencies quantified to deliver savings of £“many millions” per annum
  • Documentation of current policy differences and working practices, and design of harmonised policies and improved working practices
  • A programme and action plan for transformation that has been adopted by the executive management and is being implemented across the new organisation.

 

Areas Worked

Services Provided

For two Districts:

  • Council tax (detail)
  • Housing Benefit (detail)
  • Housing Rent (detail)
  • Refuse (detail)
  • Planning (detail)
  • Interviews to gather working practice information, transaction volumes, costs, resource usage
  • Modelling current working practices, identifying issues
  • Assessing the opportunities for introduction of shared customer services
  • Gathering requirements for shared IT systems
  • Consolidation and report preparation

For two Districts and the County Council:

  • Revenues and Benefits
  • Environmental
  • Legal & Democratic
  • Planning & Landscape
  • Community Services
  • Trading Standards
  • Finance (receipts)
  • Interviews to gather working practices, policies, transaction volumes, costs, resource usage, issues and constraints
  • Comparison and identification of differences and harmonisation actions
  • Comparison of IT systems and determining preferred approach to consolidation
  • Identification of efficiency opportunities
  • Design of harmonised business processes
  • Design of harmonisation/efficiency implementation programme including cost/benefit analysis