Transcript A Regional Governance Story John Littleton - Newcastle Conn Crawford – Sunderland Mike Martin - cSBI.

A Regional Governance Story
John Littleton - Newcastle
Conn Crawford – Sunderland
Mike Martin - cSBI
Background and Aspirations
Includes all the Local Authorities from the
Tees to the Tweed.
• Transport operators.
• Through our pilots, we work with:
– Education,
– Health
– Leisure
– Other regional brands e.g. the football clubs
– The commercial sector, transport and industry.
Planning a common cause development of shared and
trusted Infrastructure services
Delivering efficient and joined up service
opportunities in the region.
The Challenges we face as a Region
• Many different sorts of Authorities
• Many different Agencies
• Many other Organisations
Why do things together?
• Because we are different:
– We must combine our strengths and specialisms to
build responsive, citizen centred services.
• Because we are similar:
– We must tap into the economy and efficiency of
shared resources.
But we can not achieve this unless we operate
at a Regional scale.
So why is working in partnership so hard?
• It’s not just about finding new ways of working
together, it requires trust and means of
– Sharing information
– Making new working practices
– Finding sustainable ways of commissioning and governing
• Issues of joining up and integration must be
addressed constantly in response to
– New practices and legislation
– Government priorities and resource allocation
– New demands and expectations of users
We must create an infrastructure and
environment for the region to deliver better
co-ordinated products and services.
About Smart Cards :The benefit for users:
We must deliver regional / sub regional benefits of
sharing resources and responsibilities without
losing our local identities
• Different users have different needs:
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Pupils and students
Employees
Visitors and tourists
Parents and families
Senior Citizens
Visitors and tourists
Each represent a cluster of services and facilities which
need to be co-ordinated in the interests of the user. Smart
Cards allow users, providers and intermediaries to manage
their relationships.
The NERSC Approach: (The Challenge
for Local Authorities)
• We must work together at the subregional and regional levels to achieve
economies of scale:
– We can not afford to build and deliver
solutions on our own.
• We need to ensure that access, delivery
and participation is local:
– Typically on the scale of the local community
or interest group.
The ability to co-ordinate our resources and
relationships at these different scales demands a
federation approach.
What do we mean by federation?
• A set of facilities and services at the
regional level to manage:
– Identity: controlling how, and by whom, I am
known.
– Recourse and settlement: knowing where to
turn in difficulty.
– Publication: knowing where to find what is to be
found.
• These must be universal and work for me
wherever I am
What do we mean by federation?
• Federation requires certain trusted
third party services that support this
process of joining up across boundaries.
• The smart card is the tool and token for
moving about the region and accessing
its facilities.