Socitm responds to the PM's Digital Future speech

Socitm has published a response to Gordon Brown'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, says Socitm, 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.