Connect and Share: to help us all to meet the future funding and

efficiency challenge

June 2015

Simon Pinkneymeasure2improve

Simon.Pinkney@measure2improve.com

Context

• We all want roads that are fit for the future

• We have less money - yet our public expects better roads

• We need ever more efficient ways to maintain the network

• How do we balance more demand with less resources?

• Important we all continue to share experiences, connect to networks and best practice

• Highways is in the spotlight

• With longer-term funding and investment, there will be

greater expectations and demands on how money is

spent.

• The growing political and public expectation for:

– Transparency

– Accountability and

– Efficiencies

Gearing up for the changes ahead: Greater expectations?

How ready are you for the change?

Can answer yes to all of these questions?

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Is your local highway authority ready for the revised method for funding allocation ahead?

Do you have a robust asset management plan and is it embedded?

Are you confident that your road network will be well-managed and maintained?

Is public and business confidence and economic growth improving in your area?

Do you have the skills and resources in place, to change?

Are you collaborating and working with others?

Do you have the long-term plans in place?

Can you clearly evidence good practice, efficient delivery and improvements in road condition?

HMEP: how it can help

HMEP supports the sector on its journey to transform highway services by helping you to:

– Share your ideas and practices, to improve from each other

– Connect to people and networks who can help

– Access the tools, resources and training so you can understand and plan how to transform delivery of roads and services through greater efficiencies

Practical and

adaptable approach

Results driven

By the sector, for the sector

The HMEP offer focuses on 5 key areas

Collaboration and ChangeAsset Management

Procurement, Contracting and Standardisation

Strategic Peer Reviews

Benchmarking and Performance

Efficiency Resources available (as indicated) and in development

HMEP Collaboration and Change

HMEP Asset Management

HMEP Procurement, Contracting

and Standardisation

HMEP Benchmarking

and Performance

Highways Infrastructure Asset Management Guidance - available

Guidance on the Maintenance of Highways Drainage Assets - available

Lifecycle Planning Toolkit & Deterioration Models - available

E-Learning Asset Management Toolkit –

coming soon

Potholes Review - available

HMEP Strategic Peer Review

Procurement Route Choices Toolkit - available

The Standard Form of Contract - available

Guidance on Standard Specification and Standard Details - available

Supply Chain Review – coming soon

Term Maintenance Document Compiler – coming soon

Shared Services Toolkit - available

Creating the Culture to Deliver - available

Collaborative Alliances Toolkit – available

Client / Provider Collaboration Toolkit - available

Cost, Quality, Customer (CQC) - available

Connect and Share Panel – coming soon

HMEP Strategic Peer Review – information available

LEAN toolkit - available

Connect and Share: to help us all to meet the future funding and

efficiency challenge

June2015

Phil BrennanAPSE

pbrennan@apse.org.uk

Why Connect & Share?• Many existing networks (44 groups identified)

– meeting, talking, learning, sharing – identifying good practice & innovation

• Not shared across sector -relatively little documented • Not everyone is involved• HMEP Board is keen to promote existing good practice

Connect & Share Events• South West – Exeter 13/11/14• North East – Durham 20/11/14• South East – Kingston 4/12/14• West Midlands – Worcester 16/12/14• East – Cambridge 17/12/14• Yorkshire & Humberside - 19/1/15• North West – Manchester 21/1/15• London – 17/5/15• East Midlands – today

Connect and Share events highlighted:

• The wealth of experience, expertise and knowledge • A continued appetite to share and learn;• How sharing practices can help to demonstrate real

benefits;• Support is needed: An initial ‘push’ to create the ‘pull’• The importance of sharing: given future funding

context.• Maintaining momentum within the sector is important

Why have a Connect and Share Panel?

Representatives from across the highways sector (clients, providers and partners)

Help to define how:• Practices (including those where key lessons

can be learned) can continue to be shared;• Make greater connections;• Offers of support and help can be made.

Steve Kent to Chair Connect and Share Panel

“I firmly believe that the knowledge and skills to tackle the efficiency agenda already exists amongst our local authorities, principle providers and the wider supply chain. What challenges us most is the dispersed and fragmented nature of the highway maintenance sector.

Connect & Share provides us with a great opportunity to connect up the many threads of good practice and innovation and share them across the sector, simply and efficiently. I look forward to helping the sector meet this challenge.”

Steve Kent, HMEP Board Member; HMEP Advocate; Chair of the Connect and Share Panel

Aim and remit of Connect and Share

Panel

Connect people, partners and the sector to:1. Collect practices;

2. Identify and share practices;

3. Promote Practices;

4. Connect to existing groups to encourage sharing and learning.

Get involved with the Connect and Share

• Become a member of the Panel – HMEP will be inviting practitioners involved in delivery of highway services who are willing to share practices, to join;

• Offer help and support to the Panel;• Offer to share your ideas, practices and

experiences with others, across England.

Connect and Share: For the East Midlands

• Continue to work with the Alliance, Derek Hardy (Lafarge Tarmac) and Tom Heath (Jacobs) as HMEP Advocates;

• Continue to regularly review and share practices throughout your existing meetings, collaborations and forums – with providers and clients if possible;

• Invite other regions to connect and share with you, and vice versa.

Connect and Share: For the East Midlands

• What do you need help with?

• Drainage, traffic signals, quality, procurement, skills… and more.

• HMEP products can help …case studies, data, stories.

• How might connect and share help you?

Get involved with HMEP:

1. Talk to HMEP efficiency Advocates - from clients and providers

2. Access tools, resources, training & guidance on the HMEP website

3. Email your ideas and practices at highwaysefficiency@dft.gsi.gov.uk

4. Become an efficiency Advocate or a Peer Reviewer for HMEP

5. Visit the HMEP website: www.highwaysefficiency.org.uk

6. Connect – with people & networks from across the sector to ignite ideas

7. Share – your ‘real life’ efficiency experiences

Thank you.

Please do make the time to get involved