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“Blue Marble have been instrumental in driving the transformation programme forward and in supporting our journey to excellence. They have helped us to turn our strategic vision into operational reality providing programme management support with enthusiasm, clarity and an approach totally suited to our needs. I have no hesitation in recommending them to other public sector organisations.”<\/p>\n
John Richards, Director of Children\u2019s Services Peterborough City Council ===========<\/p>\n “Peterborough city councillors met last night to discuss a thirty three point action plan designed to rescue their ailing Children\u2019s Services department. Last week a report from OFSTED said the Department was performing poorly. It follows another critical report in September which led to the resignation of the Department\u2019s Director John Richards.”<\/p>\n Peterborough Children\u2019s Services – A Long Way to Go.<\/a><\/p>\n 08:23 Tuesday 15th November 2011 CHILDREN’S SERVICES CO-LOCATION\/FLEXIBLE WORKING V4 Services<\/a><\/p>\n ===========<\/p>\n Internal Links:<\/p>\n \u201cPeterborough City Council has some of the best controls in the country for managing and monitoring its use of consultants. We are already implementing many of the recommendations in the report as part of our drive for greater transparency, and ensuring we are always providing the best value for money for our taxpayers. Over the past 4 years we\u2019ve been able to take \u00a368 million out of our budget because of this work.<\/strong> We\u2019d like to thank the consultants who\u2019ve worked for us in the past, and those who continue to work for us, for sharing their expertise with our staff to enable us to improve the skills and knowledge we have within our own workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n 08:35 Friday 25th March 2011 =======<\/p>\n “It just seems a bit late to be working on a plan, when, after the last couple of years, our Children\u2019s Services have been lambasted by Ofsted, we\u2019re paying a gentleman a heck of a lot of cash to sort Children\u2019s Services out. One in four kids in poverty in Peterborough, and we\u2019re working on a strategy. We haven\u2019t got a strategy, we\u2019re working on one.”<\/p>\n Children in Poverty – Department in Disarray<\/a><\/p>\n 08:08 Tuesday 8th May 2012 ============<\/p>\n Consultants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Blue Marble have been instrumental in driving the transformation programme forward and in supporting our journey to excellence. They have helped us to turn our strategic vision into operational reality providing programme management support with enthusiasm, clarity and an approach totally suited to our needs. I have no hesitation in recommending them to other public … Continue reading “On the Value of Testimonials and Case Studies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1],"tags":[309,145,62,163],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-bbc-radio-peterborough","tag-blue-marble","tag-consultants","tag-peterborough-city-council","tag-v4-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSHARPER FOCUS ON CHILDREN’S NEEDS CREATES ROOM FOR INVESTMENT
\nVULNERABLE CHILDREN IN PETERBOROUGH GET A BETTER DEAL
\nTRANSFORMING SERVICES FOR CHILDREN
\nIMPROVING THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN IN PETERBOROUGH
\nREDUCING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN CARE AND ASSOCIATED EXPENDITURE<\/p>\n
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