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  • Steve Bishop: There are too many councils and we cost too much 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 8 Dec, 2014

    Steve Bishop: There are too many councils and we cost too much

    Steve Bishop is strategic director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils UK local government costs too much. It costs way more than it needs to. That’s[…]

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    Growing together: the case for group outsourcing 0
    • in Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 28 Aug, 2014

    Growing together: the case for group outsourcing

    Steve Bishop is strategic director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils. This article was originally published in Issue 4 of Room151 Quarterly magazine.  South Oxfordshire (South) and Vale of[…]

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  • The hazy world of ethics 0
    • in Blogs · Steve Bishop
    • — 29 May, 2014

    The hazy world of ethics

    Political manifestos and financial plans, at the national and local level, are fundamentally born out of politicians’ beliefs and motives. The ethics  contained within those manifestos, or absence thereof, are[…]

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    Building  compromise 0
    • in Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 11 Mar, 2014

    Building compromise

    Local government is invariably about compromise. What customers need, what members want and what heads of different services are looking to achieve are nearly always difficulty to reconcile, if not[…]

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  • The rational thing to do 0
    • in Blogs · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 17 Dec, 2013

    The rational thing to do

    Property rationalisation is an obvious win for councils but sovereignty struggles can get in the way argues Steve Bishop, strategic director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils I was a[…]

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    Outsourcing: the devil in the detail 1
    • in Steve Bishop
    • — 15 Nov, 2013

    Outsourcing: the devil in the detail

    Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils Local authority outsourcing has been back on the front pages recently and unsurprisingly the news has[…]

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  • How far can the commissioning council go? 0
    • in Blogs · Recent Posts · Steve Bishop
    • — 3 Oct, 2013

    How far can the commissioning council go?

    Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils As I may have dazzled you with before, our major claim to fame at South Oxfordshire[…]

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    Resident engagement: a powerful catalyst for financial change 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 30 Aug, 2013

    Resident engagement: a powerful catalyst for financial change

    Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils One of the councils I work for, Vale of White Horse, has been dealing with cuts[…]

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  • Officer outsourcing could save a small fortune 0
    • in Blogs · Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 17 Jul, 2013

    Officer outsourcing could save a small fortune

    Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils Who can honestly say they work flat out all year round? I know I can’t. If[…]

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    Sovereignty trumps common sense at most councils 0
    • in Blogs · Recent Posts · Resources · Steve Bishop
    • — 6 Jun, 2013

    Sovereignty trumps common sense at most councils

    Steve Bishop is Strategic Director for South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils When the Gershon Report was published nine years ago it said that local government loses £6,450m[…]

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