Driving Good Governance Throughout The Public Sector
Online 31 May 2022, 9:00am - 3:00pm
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9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Adress
Adam Doyle, University of East London
9:40am
Keynote Address: Optimising The Contribution Of Governance To The Development And Sustainability Of The Public Sector
Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute
10:00am
Keynote Address: Lessons For The Governance Of Public Bodies From The Pandemic Response In Health
- Improving accountability by clarifying in normal times how public bodies would work to a No.10, Treasury or Cabinet Office agenda in a crisis.
- Avoiding a blame culture by building the trusting relationships that are needed when a crisis occurs.
- Collaborating on contingency planning and crisis preparation to ensure responsibilities are clearly defined.
- Encouraging the independent voice of public bodies, even where this may be inconvenient to ministers.
Dr Matthew Gill, Programme Director, Institute for Government
10:20am
Keynote Address: Promoting Cross-Sectoral Learning For Good Governance Within The Public Sector (And Beyond)
Lockdown has transformed the practice of governance across and within sectors, opening up possibilities for building engagement, participation and diversity
- Across and within sectors, including the public sector, governance successes and governance failures have more similarities than differences
- Governance, in each sector and sub sector - in the public sector and beyond - is masked by the tendency to surround boardroom tables with ‘people like us’, a practice that promotes insularity, group think and convergent ‘inside the box’ decision making, and which frustrates cross-sector learning and attempts to build inclusion and broaden participation
- There is an urgent need for an all-sector Better Governance Commission which brings together governance professionals from across the sectors to develop a shared governance literacy that can be shared within and beyond the boardroom
Dr Tony Breslin FRSA, National Leader of Governance, Director, Breslin Public Policy Limited
10:40am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
Keynote Address: Presentation by the University of East London
Jim Benson, University Secretary and Director of Compliance, University of East London
11:55am
Case Study: How To Tell Stories About Government Success
- Citizens, practitioners, and scholars excel in sharing stories about government failure. That is understandable because the mistakes of government have major consequences
- If we are to identify and strengthen what works in the public sector, we must become equally good at sharing stories about government success
- However, telling authentic, credible and inspiring stories about bureaucracies may be challenging
- This session explores new ways for structuring, presenting and sharing stories about government successes big and small, that participants can start using right away
Dr Scott Douglas, Assistant Professor of Public Management, Utrecht University School of Governance (USG), The Netherlands
12:15pm
The Journey To Effective Modern Governance
Andreas Theodorou, Director, Head of EMEA Risk & Compliance Customer Success, Diligent
12:35pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:55pm
Lunch and Networking
1:40pm
Case Study: Implementing Good Governance Within Local Government Despite The Challenges Of The Pandemic And Post-Pandemic Recovery
Carol Culley OBE, Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer, Manchester City Council
2:00pm
Update On System Assessments
- Transformation and CQC new strategy
- External factors and our response
- What will change
- Our approach to LA and ICS assessments
Amanda Williams, Director of Integration Inequalities & Improvement, Care Quality Commission
2:20pm
Identifying Good Governance Through Success
- For decades, governments in the West have taken state stability for granted. We should recognize that fragility is the norm and govern accordingly
- Governing with fragility in mind means emphasizing foresight, attentiveness to risks, preparedness, and adaptability
- There is no standard formula for governing with fragility in mind. The era of the "one best way" is past
- We must recognize and resist the temptation to restrict human rights as we attempt to manage risks
Alasdair S. Roberts, Professor of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
2:40pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:00pm
Chair's Summary and Close
*programme subject to change