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Could
regional
collaboration
inregulatory
services
helpenvironmental
health a forum will allow businessesto share
services theproblem
overcome ofshrinking
budgets?
Marie-Glaire
Kiddreports experiencesof regulatory services.
Discussionsare progressingwith
Businesslink and DirectGov about
integrating with other projectsseeking
to provide regulation online.
Artemis will give businessesa
strongervoice by enabling regulated
businessesto engagewith one another
and with regional regulatorsand
businessadvisors,'saysMr Eastwood.
'The
inevitableincreasein
standardisationwill reduceinequalities
nvironmental health, trading pubiic with the latest socialmedia tools and variation, simplifying processes
standards,licensing and fire for peer-to-peersupport, eJearning,best for businesses with multiple outlets.
safetysewicesacrossYorkshire practice and new approaches. In time, online self assessments will
and the Humber arecombining It will provide online accessto empowerresponsible businesses
to createa regionalregulatory services standarddocumentation,support for to assesscompliancewithout
brand.One of its architectssaysthe mobile workers and a blog and forum intewention.'
project'may hold the key to the for public servants.A'twitterlike' Artemis is alsointended to involve
future survival of local authority online staff training serviceis also the public,ultimately through the
environmental health servicesin the planned. establishmentof a singlepoint of
light of staggeringreductionsin finance.' Its creatorssay the online hub will contact in Yorkshire and Humber,
Ken Eastwood,assistantdirector of support individual and group decision although this requires further
regulatory servicesat BarnsleyMBC, making. discussionwithin the region.
saysregulatory servicessuffer from an 'We
needto encouragesharing The Local Better RegulationOffice,
identitrr nricic and joint working and overcome LheWorld ClassRegulatoryServices
'There's
often a lack of awareness professionaljealousiesand rivalries Paneland the RegionalImprovement
over where to go for help and advice,'he where they exist,'Mr Eastwoodsays. and Efficiency Partnership,will share
says.'We need to find a way of raising 'Citizens
and businessesdon't care about lessonsfrom YoHr Regsto other regions.
our profile, improving our effectiveness our individual identities and how we've If successful,Artemis could be adopted
and efficiency and better deiivering our chosento structureour servicesacross as a national project.YoHr Regswill also
servicesto businessesand the wider the region. The soonerwe wake up to suppoft the development of mobile and
public.' that the better.' flexible working, building on the project
YoHr Regs,funded by Yorkshire and led by BarnsleyMBC and SheffieldCity
the Humber's RegionalImprovement rtemis will also include a Council.
and EfficiencyPartnership,YoHr Space, virtual resourcecentre for Mr Eastwoodsays:'Swingeing cuts
focuseson regionalpartnershipand businesses, with a repository of in public expenditurewill mandate
collaboration,new ways of working adviceand signpoststo sources radical and creativethinking, including
and businessadviceand support.lt of secondaryadvice.Wizards and around opLionsto deliverservices
aims to establisha strongeridentity and toolkits will give a tailored serviceand acrossorganisationaland geographical
potentially a single,regional brand. boundaries.
Mr Eastwood,the YoHr Regs 'Changes
of this nature will
z
programme lead,said:'We know o
inevitably require remote accessto
we'reenteilng a periodof significant different back offices, effective data
financialchallenge.We hope that by sharing and the ability to work across
working togetherwe can shapethe theseboundariesin a time-efficient
future together rather than have change way. Mobile and flexible working and
i^m
' ' 'nr n"q" e
' *d l r n n n r r q associatedtechnology implementations
'I'm
convinced that our future lies in will be fundamental enablers.'
collaboration and voluntary unification Councillor RogerStone,chair of YoHr
of our services.There'sso much more Spaceand leaderofRotherham MBC,
we can do if we brigade our resources. said:'We have the active engagement
This doesnt necessarilyhave to mean and backing of leadersand chief
structural or boundary changes,or the executivesacrossthe region.
end of our professionalidentities. 'It's
now up to individual regulatory
'The
stateof the public purseis servicesto step up to the plate, take
inevitably going to lead to significant advantage of the support and contribute
changeand now's the time to display to the development of world-class
strono leedershin' regulatory services.'G
YoHrRegs'online hub,Artemis,will t http://yohrregs.wordpress.com/
provideofficers,
businesses
andthe { www.yohrspace.org.uk
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