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Surrey County Council has won a national award for its innovative use of technology. The authority is trialling a scheme that sees staff using their own laptops, smartphones or other devices to do their job as part of its ‘modern worker’ programme. It has earned the council a 2012 innovation award from the Society of … Continue reading
Cabinet Member for Change and Efficiency Denise Le Gal was interviewed by BBC Surrey’s Mark Carter about Surrey County Council’s new collective energy switching scheme, which aims to bring homes and businesses together to drive down the cost of gas and electricity. Audio courtesy of BBC Surrey
After striking a blow for consumers over doorstep energy selling, Surrey County Council is launching a campaign to slash up to £7.5 million from electricity and gas bills. The big six utility firms stopped cold calling after the council’s trading standards team successfully prosecuted Scottish and Southern Energy for using door to door sellers to … Continue reading
The Financial Times today published a letter from Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Change and Efficiency Denise Le Gal about savings made by the authority through driving harder bargains on contracts. Her letter is below. Sir, Andrew Hooke may like to know that specialist outsourcing professionals were not called in to help Surrey county … Continue reading
Nearly £800,000 will be slashed from the phone bill after Surrey County Council drove a harder bargain with its mobile supplier. Tough negotiating has resulted in a two-year deal being awarded to Orange that represents a £795,000 saving on the previous contract. The £1 million contract allows minutes, text and internet time to be shared, meaning … Continue reading
Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Change and Efficiency Denise Le Gal has participated in a national debate organised by the Guardian about private sector involvement in delivering public services. To find out her views, click here.
An innovative approach to young people’s services has helped Surrey County Council scoop an awards double. The drive to transform young people’s services saw community groups take over running youth centres and savings of £1.8m a year for taxpayers. It won the council the Best Public Procurement Project category in the Chartered Institute of Purchasing … Continue reading
Surrey County Council will save more than £5 million after agreeing a deal with BT to connect at least 20 public services in the South East. BT has won the contract to replace up to 40 separate networks in Surrey and Berkshire with just one*. The public services network, which will be available to all … Continue reading
Three companies are in the running to provide a single communications network to more than 20 public services in the South East that could save millions of pounds. BT, KCOM Group and Logicalis UK have been shortlisted to give Surrey and Berkshire a shared public sector network. It will feature cloud computing technology that links … Continue reading
Surrey County Council expects to save up to £300,000 after launching a new system to conduct CRB checks. Completing background checks online instead of on paper forms means waiting times for results have been cut to just a few days. Under the previous paper system, it could take up to six weeks for a check … Continue reading
Providing in-house training will help save Surrey County Council nearly £750,000. Surrey has already saved £130,000 by providing training itself and expects to make another £600,000 of savings in the next two years. These will come through running more in-house courses and doing better deals for external training. Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Change … Continue reading
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