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Capital Ambition: A new Improvement and Efficiency Partnership for London
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On 1 April 2008 the London Centre of Excellence merged with Capital Ambition and the Improvement and Employment Division of London Councils to form London's new Improvement and Efficiency Partnership, retaining the title and branding of Capital Ambition. The core and development e-government work with London Connects moved across to Capital Ambition on 1 June 2008.
For more information about what this means for London, please read our new
What’s in it for you? Giving and taking to improve the capital booklet (pdf file, 222kb).
The first meeting of the Capital Ambition Programme Board was held on 14 April with Derek Myers, Chief Executive of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the Chair. Rob Leak, Chief Executive, LB of Enfield is Deputy Chair, Efficiency Champion and Chair of the Efficiency Sub Group. The Programme Board will account to the London Improvement Board which has Cllr. Michael White Leader of Havering and Portfolio Holder for Improvement as its Chair.
For more information, please visit our Improvement & Efficiency Strategy for London (IESL)
We will be working to merge and link the websites but in the meantime work resulting from the previous workstreams of Capital Ambition can be found on this site; efficiency projects and communications will continue on www.lcpe.gov.uk and the e-government work on www.londonconnects.gov.uk
The Capital Ambition partnership was originally established in January 2006 by the thirty three London boroughs, London Councils, the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) to drive up standards and ensure that London is a better place in which to live and work.
The vision behind Capital Ambition is to ensure that London’s public services become leaders for innovation, fairness, relevance, efficiency and effectiveness.
Any enquiries may be directed to Suzanne Rose, Head of Stakeholder Management 020 7934 9968 suzanne.rose@londoncouncils.gov.uk
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Opportunities at Capital Ambition
We are currently advertising four positions; Head of Programme and Performance Management, Programme Manager, Head of Shared Solutions, and Project Manager for Shared Solutions. For more information about these posts please click here to read our joint advert
No Quality Without Equality
On 15 April 2008 Capital Ambition held an event to launch ‘No Quality Without Equality’. This report concluded the second stage of a work programme designed to support authorities to attain higher levels of the Equality Standard for Local Government. It sets out progress made, projections for attainment by end 2008/2009, remaining issues and barriers and provides a series of recommendations for future work.
The evening reception was well attended, and delegates heard presentations from Daniel Ratchford of Capital Ambition, Michael Bell of Michael Bell Associates with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist) as key-note speaker.
For the report, presentations from the event and details of the project please head to our Projects page
The latest Capital Ambition Programme Board meeting took place on Monday 19 May 2008. For more information, please see our Capital Ambition Programme Board meeting papers
Latest Reports and Analysis from Capital Ambition
Place-Shaping in London knowledge-sharing seminar reports - 28 April 2008
Capital Ambition’s Improvement and Efficiency Strategy for London 2008-2012
Performance Measures for Cultural Services in London
MORI - Customer Satisfaction in London Local Government
Environment Services Performance in London
London Authorities Performing Better Than Ever
CPA results published in February 2008 show significant improvement for London's local authorities. Read More
Information on previous news items can be found in the news archive.