Socitm-Intellect Supplier Forum

The Intellect-Socitm Local Government Supplier Forum was established in April 2004 with the aim of fostering closer working and better understanding between the local government community and industry suppliers operating in the marketplace.

The Forum organises a series of speaker-led meetings with key stakeholders in the local government arena and examines current and relevant issues. In previous years the group has addressed a number of issues, including the structure and governance of local government, the impact of the green agenda on local government and the challenges of working in multi-agency environments.

The Forum advertises its events in the Intellect Web site has a series of meetings planned for 2010, including reviews of Government Initiatives and reviewing any changes in policy following the General Election.

The Groups terms of reference are to:

• identify areas of common interest between the local government and supplier community through educational events and the development of joint approaches to particular policy
• agree how to work on particular issues that can be taken forward in a practical way
• act as a channel for ideas and issues and feed these into bodies such as Intellect's Public Sector Council and the Socitm Board of Directors
• create clear channels of communication between the management committee and members so that the opinions and concerns of the wider membership help shape the forum's activities

With the intention of acting as a channel for ideas and issues from the different constituencies involved, feeding these to bodies such as the Socitm National Council  

In 2010 the group intends to supplement the regular seminaries with workshops to develop and take forward views on initiatives such as the Public Sector Network and G-Cloud both from a supplier and user perspective.

Get in touch

Carla Baker

Programme Manager

T 020 7331 2164

E carla.baker@intellectuk.org