Self assessment for the Council of the Future (14/3/2010)

Since we launched the Council of the Future in October (was it really only six months ago?) we have been speaking to over 150 councils up and down the country about their progress towards this vision - of councils that spend less, but achieve more. Two of the key points to come out of these discussions are (a) "how can we tell how far we are from the Council of the Future?" and (b) "how can we get the message across more clearly to the Chief Executive, Council Leader and the whole of the corporate management team?" 

Well, we're tackling both. In the next week we will be launching our self-assessment questionnaire on this website - a simple questionnaire which, once completed, gives you a report on how far down the Council of the Future route you have travelled, and where your strong and weak points lie. Councils which have used it in its test form have commented that it is a valuable means of identifying where they need to focus their efforts.

We are also going to be launching a new version of the Council of the Future framework at the Socitm conference in April - a framework more eaimed at Chief Executives and not-IT people.

So watch this space for thenext stage of the Council of the Future.