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Public Service Mutuals: A good option for Library Services? Department for Culture, Media & Sport Where do we start from? Significant programme from 2010 - 2015 A small number of library services have spun out Recent

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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Public Service Mutuals: A good option for Library Services?

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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Where do we start from?

  • Significant programme from 2010 - 2015
  • A small number of library services have “spun out”
  • Recent research shows almost unanimous “glad we did it”

view across PSMs as a whole…

  • ...but also that it is a difficult journey
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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Ambition for this Parliament

  • Reinvigorate drive for PSMs across various sectors
  • Produce new strategy defining support structures, launch

February

  • Implement (April onwards)
  • But don’t wait until then: go for quick wins if the opportunity

is there

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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

New strategy for PSMs

  • Based on research evidence: short-term/long-term
  • Optimum structure(s) for the market
  • Support at three stages: concept, in process, live
  • Gain buy-in from Central & Local Government and
  • thers
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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Libraries

  • Ministerial responsibility for PSMs is in same place as

for Libraries policy, so backing to “do something”

  • Challenges include legal structures, inherited liabilities,

commissioner reticence, finance…

  • Effectively two types: technical and behavioural
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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Our support offer (contracting now)

  • Designed in conjunction with Libraries Taskforce and

DCMS Libraries teams, together with existing Library/Archive PSMs and those going through the process

  • Masterclasses
  • Peer support network
  • 1:1 mentoring
  • Specialist technical help
  • Short-term and long-term offer
  • Match funding?
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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

The other end of the telescope?

Hard, ambitious and exciting from where we sit

  • How does it look from your position?
  • Is the support offering right?
  • How do you get serious consideration from decision

makers?

  • Is there more we could/should/must do from your

perspective?

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Department for Culture, Media & Sport

Thank you for your input