Shared Services - Not the route to savings
Shared services have been around for some time in both
the private and the public sector. They usually involve
HR, payroll and communications for large organisations are
handled via a central body.
They have been promoted by many, including the companies
who sell the IT products needed to make it work, as a route
to substantial savings in the public sector.
Sadly, shared services have a mixed record, the promised
savings are rarely realised. They will not be able to provide
the solution to the budget cuts facing public services now.
UNISON Scotland has published a range of briefings, responses
and leaflets on shared services. A selection is listed below
or use the search box at the top of the page.
New
Clyde Valley Shared Services briefing 9 August 2011 "Latest
excuse for a business case":
 Councils
across the Clyde Valley are reviewing the potential for
shared services. UNISON’s not opposed to public bodies sharing
services, but we are against the creation of public service
factories for so-called ‘back office’ services.
This outdated
approach has been widely criticised for providing high costs
and poor service
Click here for
a pdf A5 leaflet.
Public service factories are not the key to reforming public
services: UNISON, Scotland’s largest public service
union, today warned of the high cost of setting up ‘public
service factories’ in a bid to save councils cash. Press
Release June 2011
Briefing
6: Bargaining - Clyde Valley Shared Services June 2011
Christie
Review Roadmap to reform?
Public Service Futures briefing Summer 2011
Briefing
5: Policy - Christie Commission on future of public services
June 2011
Briefing
4: Bargaining - McLelland review of ICT in public sector
June 2011
Briefing
2: Bargaining - Shared services in the public sector June
2011
Private
consultants cost Scots councils £42m in a year March 2010
CBI
‘living in a Thatcherite wonderland’ – UNISON response to
CBI submission Feb 2011
The
UNISON Scotland Submission on Towards a Sustainable Solution
for the Future of Higher Education Feb 2011
Public
Service Reform Powerpoint January 2011
MSP
Briefing Parliamentary Debate – 9 September 2010
UNISON
rejects attack on Scottish public services by CBI - 'the
people who brought you the recession' June 2010
Campaign
against shared services to protect jobs and services June
2010
Shared
Services - Not the route to savings leaflet and briefing
Relying
on Shared Services won’t work - UNISON comments on Local
Government Committee finance report Jan 2010
Shared
services do not save money December 2009
Arbuthnott
Report on shared services - Dec 2009
Shared
Services Update June 2009 This briefing provides an
overview of current and future shared service plans in local
government based on information gathered from Scotland’s
Local Authorities.
Shared
Services “worst case”
ReVitalise bulletin Spring 2009
Click
here for the full range of Revitalise Briefings
Public
Service staff care about services
ReVitalise bulletin Spring 2008
Sharing
Services—not all it’s cracked up to be?
ReVitalise bulletin September 2007
Bargaining
on Shared Services Briefing December 2006
Shared Services
Response July 2006
Shared Services:
Scottish Executive Consultation Briefing May 2006
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