President's welcome

Speaker: Jaki Salisbury, CIPFA President

Looking beyond austerity - the long range forecast

Speaker: Stephanie Flanders, broadcast journalist and economics editor 

An overview of this and other great recessions and how people got out of them…what’s different this time and what’s in store for the UK and its public finances by 2020?

Designing the future state

Speaker: Chuka Umunna, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

 

Public services role in fostering the conditions for prosperity and growth.

Coffee
Exhibition hall

A 20/20 Society

Speaker: Ben Page, Chief Executive IPSOS Mori

 

How will Britain look and feel after such a prolonged period of austerity? What shape is the society of the future? 

Understanding the demographic and attitudinal changes in our society provides  critical underpinning to develop appropriate structures, support and funding for future generations. 

Game changing strategies

Speaker: Professor Tony Travers, Chairman, The London Finance Commission

 

The London Finance Commission was established by the newly elected Mayor Boris Johnson in May 2012 to help improve the tax and public spending arrangements for London in order to promote jobs and growth.

The commission’s final report will be published in the Spring 2013.

Focusing on the mid-term future – a period we certainly hope will be ‘beyond austerity’ very few public bodies and services are likely to manage through this unprecedented period of transformation without recourse to radical game changing initiatives. For London and other cities in particular, the alternative financing models studied in the Commission's report will be an important step towards understanding change options which may gain momentum.

Lunch
Exhibition hall

Workshops

• Efficiency, transformation, procurement and commissioning - In the current climate of increased commissioning due to reduced resources and a strategic shift towards market driven results, this workshop will consider the challenges this presents to commissioners in managing current internal delivery expectations, the squeeze on local voluntary and community sector and the desire for choice and results of stakeholders.

• Mutuals and social enterprise - Is Big Society yesterday’s idea or does the involvement of social enterprise and the third sector offer real opportunities for local services. Has the focus become too much on cost saving rather than improving outcomes and identifying opportunities?

   
  
• The future shape of local Government - Given that austerity is here to stay it is clear that local government will look very different in the Future. CIPFA is currently working on a think piece on the shape and function of local government over the longer term. This workshop will share some of the current thinking and give participants a chance to engage with the debate.  

• Graduate  resourcing and training challenge - The need to attract and keep the best finance graduates within the public sector is getting stronger. CIPFA together with public sector bodies in the Nottinghamshire developed an innovative solution to recruit and train new talent gaining best value for money.  This workshop will look at a  success story in public sector graduate recruitment and how the model could be rolled out to other areas. 

 

Coffee
Exhibition hall

Workshops

• Society of District Council Treasurers' 

• Local Government Pension Scheme investment strategies - investments for the new "normal" - The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is going through a period of significant change. With a new scheme due to be launched in just a few months’ time, an increasingly diverse range of employers and their growing demand for fund unitisation, dwindling membership, rapidly approaching fund maturity and the outcome of one of the most pivotal scheme valuations due soon, these are uncertain times for the LGPS and for those charged with charting the investment strategy.  In this session we will explore the challenges faced and look at potential solutions to deliver the necessary but realistically achievable long-term, diversified investment returns funds require.

• New audit regimes

 

Landscape 2020

 

Panel discussion speakers: 

Owen Jones, columnist and author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Derrick Anderson, CEO Lambeth Council

Tim Montgomerie, Conservative blogger and commentator

What kind of society will we be living in come 2020 and what can we do to shape it?

 

Can the transformations brought on by this unprecedented period of recession and a new approach to politics result in a more equitable and balanced society?

Exhibition networking drinks

Venue: Exhibition hall, Novotel, Hammersmith

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Official conference drinks reception

Venue: The Distillers, 64 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith

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