by Martin Ellender | Aug 6, 2026 | Local government transformation
Recently, IMPOWER joined the County Councils Network (CCN) for a discussion with Directors of Children’s Services from authorities across England going through local government reorganisation. Between them, the Directors represented services supporting millions...
by Martin Ellender | Feb 9, 2023 | Local government transformation
Building confidence amongst teams is a practical challenge, however I explain how this can be delivered in the short-term. This is the third of three blogs about transformation and medium-term financial planning. We regularly come across four fundamental concerns from...
by Martin Ellender | Jan 16, 2023 | Adult social care, Local government transformation
In my previous blog I offered to share a long list of savings ideas collated from our clients, and shared IMPOWER’s greatest hits for sustainable cost reduction. I also said that ambition, grip and execution (and not ideas) are the real challenges in delivering these....
by Martin Ellender | Dec 19, 2022 | Adult social care, Children's social care, Education and inclusion, Health, Local government transformation, Place
We’ve collated hundreds of savings proposals from our clients – six of them can be actioned quickly and sustainably Despite some additional short-term wriggle room provided by the Autumn statement our clients’ medium-term financial positions still range...
by Martin Ellender | Dec 1, 2022 | Being IMPOWER
Find out who has inspired me this year…. Caroline, as Head of Performance for Lincolnshire County Council, played an integral role as data and insight provider within all of our major workstreams in adults, children’s services, Covid response and the corporate...
