Socitm response to the Prime Minister's speech on Britain's Digital Future

Produced by: Socitm

Type: Policy responses

This document is Socitm's response to the Prime Minister's speech on Britain's Digital Future, delivered on 22 March.

In it, Socitm calls for a renewed focus on locally delivered information handling and technology deployment to underpin the proposals made in the speech.

Evidence from the Total Place pilots, and elsewhere, confirms that public services deliver more, better and for less when services are led, managed and resourced locally, with citizens and front-line staff having a major say in the nature and composition of those services.

National standards and infrastructure, such as the proposed citizen ID authentication and universal superfast broadband, can underpin these improvements, but it is at the local level that many services can reform,collaborate and innovate to deliver the step change in value and cost to the citizens and businesses we serve.

These are the changes that feature in an emerging vision for Tomorrow's Public Services, being developed jointly by Socitm with a number of other organisations.

Last modified: 1st April 2010