Past Events
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
More Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2010 | John Baillie, Chair of the Accounts Commission and David Heald, Professor of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen Business School, as Chair | Inspection and regulation post Crerar – what are the changes ahead and how will they benefit and/or challenge public services’ | Click here |
| Mar 2010 | Keir Buckhurst, Accenture | Transformation of the Delivery of Public Services | Click here |
| Mar 2010 | David Walker, Managing Director of Communications and Public Reporting, Audit Commission | Will the age of austerity be the centralisers' dream and the localists' nightmare? | Click here |
| Feb 2010 | Stephen Hughes, Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council and Councillor David Parsons CBE, Deputy Chairman, Local Government Association | Leading Local Government of the Future | Click here |
| Jan 2010 | John Tizard Director, Centre for Public Service Partnerships’ and Fiona Blacke, Chief Executive, National Youth Agency | A WCL seminar ‘Delivering in partnership with the Third Sector’. PMPA members are welcome to attend | More information is available from Deirdre Noonan on 020 7543 5679 or deirdre.noonan@cipfa.org.uk |
| Jan 2010 | Simon Mahony, Audit Commission and Kevin Moynihan, Southern Railway | Using information to drive efficiency and effectiveness | Click here |
| Jan 2010 | Professor Andrew Gray | Being business like but not like a business: the challenge for the management of higher education | Click here |
| Dec 2009 | Professor Peter Alcock | Devolution or Divergence? Third Sector Policy across the UK, the Implications for Research, Policy and Practice | Click here |
| Nov 2009 | Simon Tucker, The Young Foundation and Dr Marc Bailey, Nokia Research Centre, Cambridge UK | A Department of Health and PMPA seminar ‘Perspectives on Future Health’ | Click here |
| Nov 2009 | Prof Geert Bouckaert, Director of the Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Perspectives on public management reform in Scotland | Click here for the SPMN programme |
| Oct 2009 | Dr Catherine Needham, Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London | A PMPA and CPSP roundtable discussion ‘Commissioning for Personalisation' | Download the event summary |
| Oct 2009 | Janet Grauberg, PMPA, 'Information for decision making' | Managing public services in challenging times | N/A |
| Oct 2009 | Dan Wellings, Ipsos MORI | A Department of Health and PMPA ‘Health in an Information Age’ seminar | This latest ‘Health Futures’ seminar will be led by Dan Wellings, Head of Public Health Research at Ipsos MORI. He will draw on Ipsos MORI’s research into public attitudes to the NHS, to the role of GPs in an information age, and the way in which the public regards health information. |
| Sep 2009 | Janet Grauberg, PMPA, 'Information for decision making' | A North East CIPFA Region event | Click here to download the programme |
| Sep 2009 | Professor Paul Joyce, Liverpool Business School | PAC Conference: A PMPA and National School of Government lecture, ‘Skills for tomorrow’s public services’ | Click here for more information |
| Jun 2009 | Guest speaker, Professor Paul Joyce, Liverpool Business School. Facilitators; Janet Grauberg, Development Director, PMPA and Francis Coxhead, Programme Director, NSG. | A PMPA and NSG workshop, ‘Skills and Universities’ | Click here for more information [WORD file 56KB] |
| Jun 2009 | Guest speaker, George Jones, Emeritus Professor of Government, the London School of Economics and Political Science | A PMPA workshop, 2009 CIPFA conference: 'Why do we need participatory budgeting, or don’t we?' | Click here for more information [WORD file 96KB] |
| Jun 2009 | Dan Wellings, Ipsos MORI | A Department of Health and PMPA ‘Health Futures’ | TBC |
| Apr 2009 | Ian Carruthers, Policy and Technical Director of CIPFA | PMPA Spring Lecture ‘Public Finances in the long term | Report to follow |
| Mar 2009 | Denis Smith, Professor of Management at the University of Glasgow | PMPA/BT vision @ lunch – Leading in a Crisis | Report to follow |
| Mar 2009 | Jill Finney, Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications, British Library | A Department of Health and PMPA ‘Health Futures’ seminar | Report to follow |
| Feb 2009 | Professor Jan Bebbington, Director of the St Andrews Sustainability Institute | PMPA Spring Lecture ‘Sustainable Futures – Climate Change’ | Click here for further details [WORD file 42KB] |
| Jan 2009 | Julia Unwin CBE, Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation | PMPA Spring Lecture – Sustainable Communities | Click here for further details [WORD file 36KB] |
| Dec 2008 | Leo Boland Chief Executive, and Max Wide Executive Director of Organistional Development, of the London Borough of Barnet | PMPA/BT Vision @ Lunch: lunchtime discussion | Click here for an event summary |
| Dec 2008 | Sir Michael Bichard | PMPA AGM | Click here for the write up [PDF file 36KB] |
| Oct 2008 | Jake Eliot of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) John Tizard from the Centre for Public Service Partnerships at the University of Birmingham Will Werry, Chair of the Commissioning Joint Committee |
Public Services in a Mixed Economy: PMPA & Partners Roundtable Discussion | Click here for Report of the Discussion [PDF file 36KB] |
| Oct 2008 | Sean Lusk, NSG and Rob Hutchinson CBE | PMPA/BT Vision@Lunch: Focusing on Outcomes to Deliver Strategy and Partnership | Download related article from March 2009 PMPA Review |
| May 2008 | Chris Sayers, BT Stephen Joyce, Mid Suffolk Council |
PMPA/BT Vision @ Lunch: Delivering Citizen Centric Services in a Joined-Up World | Click here for an event summary [PDF file 31KB] |
| Mar 2008 | Phil Hope MP, Parliamentary Secretary Douglas Johnson-Poensgen, Director, Strategy & Transformation, BT Public Sector Nigel Kershaw, Chief Executive of Big Issue Invest and Chairman of The Big Issue Peter Kyle, Director of Strategy and Ente |
PMPA/BT Vision at Lunch: Harnessing Third Sector Partnerships to deliver better Public Services | Click here for an event summary [PDF file 36KB] |
| Mar 2008 | Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP Chair:Sir David Normington, Permanent Secretary, Home Office |
Constitutional Reform | |
| Feb 2008 | Dame Jane Roberts, Chair of the Councillors Commission | Modern Councillors | |
| Jan 2008 | Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats | Beyond Liberty | Click here for an event summary [PDF file 18 KB] |
| Jan 2008 | PMPA Spring Lecture – Sustainable Communities | More information is available from Janet Grauberg on 020 7543 5683/ janet.grauberg@cipfa.org or from Deirdre Noonan on 020 7543 5679/ Deirdre.noonan@cipfa.org | |
| Dec 2007 | Professor Peter Jackson, University of Leicester and Dr Miles Parker, Director of Science at DEFRA |
Successful Academic-Practitioner Exchange | Click here for an event summary [PDF file 50 KB] |
| Dec 2007 | Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation | PMPA Members Meeting | Click here for an event summary [PDF file 18 KB] |
| Oct 2007 | Warren Hatter, Director, Public Sector Programme, Forum for the Future | Can Local Government Save the Planet? | Click here for an event summary [PDF file, 21KB] |
| Sep 2007 | Professor Colin Talbot, Manchester Business School and Caroline Mawhood, Assistant Auditor General, National Audit Office | Governing by Outcomes | Click here for an event summary [PDF file, 21KB] |
| Jun 2007 | Barbara Roche, Professor John Wilson, Colin Moore | PMPA MEMBERS ONLY LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: Leading and Measuring Improvement in Local Government | Click here for an event summary [PDF file, 22KB] |
| May 2007 | Ann Blackmore, Kari Hadjivassiliou | LUNCHTIME SEMINAR: Adopting Innovation in Government | Click here for an event summary [PDF file, 21KB] |
| May 2007 | Sandra Nutley | Using evidence in the Scottish polity: progress made and opportunities not yet realised | |
| Apr 2007 | Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnados | In defence of children – the demonized minority | Download related article from June 2007 PMPA Review [PDF file, 42KB] |
| Mar 2007 | Professor Donal McKillop and Professor John Wilson | Financial Exclusion: Action by Government and the Financial Institutions | Click here for an event summary |
| Mar 2007 | UK Auditors-General etc. | Internationalising the Accountability Profession: Towards Good Government | Click here for an event summary A PMPA report based on this event is due to be published in November 2007 |
| Feb 2007 | Sir Gus O'Donnell | The Civil Service The Way Forward | Click here for an event summary |
| Dec 2006 | Colin Moore and John Wilson | Leading and Measuring Improvement in Local Government Venue: University of Teesside, Middlesbrough |
A PMPA report based on this lecture is now available |
| Nov 2006 | Louise Casey (Anti-Social Behaviour Unit) | Creating A Respectful Society | |
| Oct 2006 | David Bell | Effective Inspection and Regulation in Education, Training and Children's Services | PMPA Review article December 2006, click here for details of past editions of the Review |
| Jun 2006 | Cheryl Miller and Richard Penn | Managing in a Political Environment | PMPA Review article Richard Penn May 2006, Cheryl Miller September 2006, click here for details of past editions of the Review |
| May 2006 | Adam Sampson | Green and pleasant land: can we address the UK's housing crisis without concreting over the countryside? | PMPA Review article September 2006, click here for details of past editions of the Review |
| Apr 2006 | Faith Boardman | The CPA Regime: Help or Hindrance? | PMPA Review article September 2006, click here for details of past editions of the Review |
| Mar 2006 | Bob Black | Public Service Improvement: The Conditions For Success And The Scottish Experience | A PMPA Report based on this lecture is now available |
| Mar 2006 | Mike Fogden | When is a Customer Not a Customer? | |
| Feb 2006 | Professor David Wilson | The Case for Penal Abolition in England and Wales | Download related article from May 2006 PMPA Review [PDF file, 73K] |
| Jan 2006 | Philippa Foster Back OBE | Ethics in the Workplace |