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Mid Kent Improvement Partnership
(MKIP)
• Formed in 2008
• Partly in response to potential Unitary Threat
• Kent Agreement – all Kent LA’s committed to
working in collaboration
• Funded from a contribution by each authority
• Originally 4 local Authorities
– Ashford, Maidstone, Swale and Tunbridge Wells
• Ashford chose to pull out in 2010 but retained
the successful shared Audit Service
Objectives
• Working in partnership to:
– Improve the quality of service to communities;
– Improve the resilience of service delivery;
– Deliver efficiency savings in the procurement,
management and delivery of services;
– Explore opportunities for trading in the medium to
long-term;
– Share best practice; and
– Stabilise or reduce the environmental impact of
service provision.
What is MKIP?
• Not a legal entity – partnership of equals
• Funded by contributions from each authority
• More than just shared services:
– Joint procurement, sharing best practice, sharing
officers
• Delivered 8 shared services since 2008
– Audit, HR, Revenues and Benefits, Fraud, Legal,
ICT, Planning Support, Environmental Health
• 4 way, 3 way and 2 way arrangements
MKIP Board and Governance
• Leader and Chief Executive of each authority
• Not decision making – remains with the each
Cabinet and Council
• Appoint shared service boards (operational)
• Director of Shared Services ( recent appt.)
• MKIP Programme Manager
MKIP Numbers
By MKIP’s 10th year (2017/18):
• £2.25m annual savings
• £13.3m total savings for £2.15m of
investment, or
• £6 return for every £1 invested
Grown from 12 person Audit team in 2008/09 to
over 240 staff (predicted) 2014/15
MKIP – what has been learned
Vision must be clearly:
• Co-defined, and co-committed and cocommunicated
Decision making must be:
• Rapid, Transparent and Strategic
Sovereignty must be:
‘I can’t stand this indecision,
Married with a lack of vision,
Defined, Agreed and Shared
Everybody wants to rule the world…’
Tears for Fears
MKIP – what has been learned
Staffing
• Recognise that staff working in a shared
environment are in a different physical and
psychological space
Loyalty and belonging
• Be aware of the psychological contract and its
affect on performance
MKIP : The future?
• Move 2 way partnerships to 3 way
• Further shared service arrangements
• Existing arrangements underpinned by
consolidated ICT hardware, software and coterminus contracts
- Single Data Centre
- Reduced line of Business Applications
- Rationalised Telephony and Contact Centre
MKIP : focus on the end game
‘Everything will be OK in the end
If its not OK,
we just haven’t got to the end yet…’
Attributed to John Lennon