Welcome to this Special Edition of the Information Agenda from P-PACT
In this special edition we want to deal with
- The next meeting of the National Public Sector Information Governance Network on 30th September 2010.
- An up-date on changes already announced and which we foresee as a result of Government initiatives
National Public Sector Information Governance Network (NPSIGN) 30th September 2010
Speakers will include:
Dame Fiona Caldicott
whose benchmark Principles still set the standards for confidentiality in the Health and Social Care sectors and who has been hugely influential national and internationally in the management of personal data.
Dame Barbara Hakin
currently CEO of East Midlands SHA; formerly Director General of Commissioning in the Department of Health and Director of Primary Care in the NHS Modernisation Agency. She is currently also a member of the NHS Board and Programme Director of the NHS Leadership Programme.
Dawn Monaghan
Senior Policy Manager at the Office of the Information Commissioner.
The Venue: Central Leeds
The Cost: Free
Places at this important free event are limited so if you wish to attend please register by emailing Paula Fallows at Paula.Fallows@publicpartners.org as soon as possible. Only one delegate per organisation can be accepted however we will accept 2nd or subsequent delegates onto a waiting list. Once you have registered your place will be confirmed immediately and joining instructions will be sent out in the middle of August. We anticipate the event will start about at 10.30 and finish by 4.00pm to accommodate restrictions on travel and overnight accommodation. Lunch will be included.
Register Now!
Update
In a week which has seen the most far reaching budget any of us can remember we thought it appropriate to provide you with our update on what we think changes already proposed will mean for those working in Information Governance. We have known since the Coalition was formed what the outline intentions were, these are spelt out on the Cabinet Office web site but not much detail has been available.
In the Coalition Document – the following areas of particular interest to us are identified;
- Proactive publication of information relating to contracts and procurement
- Government tenders will be published on line and in full free of charge including ICT contracts
- Procurement processes will be opened up
- Councils will have to proactively publish all items of spend of £500.00 or more
- Details will be published of EU funded project above £25,000.00
- Governance
- Councils will be required to publish meetings minutes
- Sustainable Communities Act to be put in place which will to show how public money is being spent; an early indication of how this will work was the publication by the Department of Health of the COINS database and the work done by the Guardian on how to read the raw data
- Councils will be expected to publish local service and performance data
- Details of all UK aid spending will be published online
- Information will be published online about the performance of healthcare providers (including presumably private providers) and education providers
- Much more information will be published about university performance
- Serious case reviews will be published with personal data redacted...
- Requirement for police to publish local crime statistics
- People
- In the public sector the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials paid more than the lowest salary permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale will be proactively published. The Government has already said details of those earning more than £58,200.00 will and working in Central Government and Non Departmental Bodies will be proactively published in September 2010
In other Coalition documents we have seen mention of extensions to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (perhaps to include the utilities and some heavily subsidised public companies?) and a new Right to Data Act - which may well deal with the proactive publication of the huge databases held as raw data by public organisations.
So - watch this space; since the parliamentary recess starts in three weeks or so nothing much will happen then but work will be going on the background and we should expect a plethora of announcements in the autumn - just in time for the NPSIGN Meeting in September!
As always
Regards,
Christine Gifford and the team at P-PACT
