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Visionary Network is the new way
to provide continual professional development for local
authority professionals.
Recent financial restraints in public sector budgets, together
with increased pressures on officer's time can prohibit
attendance at traditional conferences. Visionary Network has,
therefore, developed a series of online seminars for local
authority professionals.
The objective of this service is provide an affordable way to
deliver and exchange information and best practice as well as to
support the continual professional development of those working
in the public sector.
Each service-based series of eight lunchtime sessions will cover
the current issues of relevance to the officers working within
that service. Subject areas will range from regulatory to best
practice to strategic management.
The seminars will last for just under an hour, they will usually
consist of a presentation lasting about 30 minutes followed by
online questions put directly by the delegates.
Who Should Attend:
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Treasurers
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Revenue Managers
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Benefit Managers
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Welfare Benefit Managers
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Fraud Managers
PROGRAMME SEASON
1
PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS: THE IMPACT ON THE DWP
Paul Howarth, Department for Work and Pensions
MAINTAINING CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH INCREASED DEMAND
Sam Micklethwaite, Customer-Services Programme Manager,
Rochdale MBC
SHARED SERVICES: CENSUS, BEYOND THE VISION
Tim Delany, Head of CenSus
EFFICIENCY SAVINGS THROUGH NEW TECHNOLOGY
Malcolm Gardner, Meritec
A VIEW OF THE FUTURE OF WEFARE BENEFITES
Tim Horton, Research Director, The Fabian Society
THE AUDIT COMMISSION REPORT: WHEN IT COMES TO THE CRUNCH
Tim Savill, National Lead Benefits, the Audit Commission
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF THE RECESSION ON BENEFIT CLAIMS
Paul Sissons, Institute for Employment Studies, Sussex
University
AFTER THE ELECTION
Speaker to be confirmed
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