The MJ Future Forum - Agenda
With an agenda packed with topics that cover local government's most pressing challenges, the forum is a highly valuable way to learn how your peers are overcoming them, alongside expert advice.
The key topics we will cover are:
- Public sector reform: Harnessing technology and Total Place 2.0
- Economic growth: Are the Government’s ambitions for housing and growth achievable?
- Devolution: Does it work for non-metropolitan authorities?
- Reorganisation: Is it really the end of districts and small unitaries?
- Finances: keeping the plates spinning as finances spiral – and what does the spending review mean?
- Climate emergency: How to be green and push for growth
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Registration & Buffet lunch
Introduction
Heather Jameson, Editor of The MJ welcomes us into The MJ Future Forum, chairing the agenda for the day.
Public sector reform: The view from the LGA
Speakers
Public sector reform: making modernisation happen
Delivering frontline services in the new local government landscape
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Break
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Everything, Everywhere all at Once: Devolution, LGR, Transformation
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Resolving difficulties: How to turn it round when things go wrong
The People Behind the Change: Navigating Local Government Reform and the Pulse of the Sector
Networking drinks
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Welcome
Mike Burton, Editorial Director of The MJ will introduce the event and chair the sessions of the day.
Health and social care
Sponsored session by GateOne
The CX Factor
As citizens and communities increasingly interact with brands as consumers, their expectations continue to rise. How can local authorities keep up, and should they? Our panel will bring together Sophie Evans, Director of Customer Delivery at the Royal Borough of Kensington and a Partner from Gate One to explore how local authorities are enhancing customer experience for their citizens and communities. We'll delve into what local authorities can learn from the private sector to meet and exceed these growing expectations, including low cost, high impact strategies that can make a significant difference.
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Unlocking AI and data to generate savings and improve community choice (a social care example)
AI and data can play a significant part in unlocking opportunities and savings for local authorities. In this panel session, we speak about the benefits brought to Social Care in Essex, through a groundbreaking initiative, the Tribe Project. Tribe has delivered £6million of positive economic impact to the region, whilst also bringing increased choice and control to over a 1,000 local users of social care. The discussion will look at public sector integration and how through working closely with partners from the private sector, NHS and the local voluntary sector, councils can deliver social value, economic development and improved community outcomes and whilst also addressing positively one of the major challenges facing UK public service
