Knowing the public landscape
How the UK and Welsh public sector fits together.
A day on the public landscape: mapping the public sector, Westminster and Whitehall, the Senedd, the NHS in England and Wales, policing, councils, fire and rescue, devolution, housing and multi-agency working.
- Level
- Immerse
- Learning time
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Serving the public
- Price
- £249
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Officers, managers and partners who work across public bodies
Overview
Residents rarely know which tier owns their problem, and leaders who understand how the whole system fits together give better answers. This day begins with a map of the wider public sector and the statutory duty behind every public body, then Westminster, from the stages of a bill to select committees, the House of Lords and the Parliament Acts, and Whitehall and the Carltona principle. In Wales it explores the Senedd and the reserved powers model, then compares the NHS in England with NHS Wales. Policing, councils since 1835 and three models of fire and rescue follow. It ends with devolution, housing regulation, Awaab's Law and multi-agency working.
Aims
The aim is to help officers and partners explain who decides and who is accountable across the public sector, answer residents with confidence about which body owns their issue, and work well with partners whose rules, funding and lines of accountability differ from their own.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Classify any public body using the ONS map, and identify the statutory duty and specific powers it works from.
- Explain how Parliament makes law and holds government to account, and prepare your organisation to give evidence to a committee.
- Apply practical questions about duties, handovers and a shared picture when your work crosses an organisational or national boundary.
What you'll develop
By the end of this Immerse, you will be able to:
- Classify any public body using the ONS three way map and identify the statutory duty and specific powers it works from.
- Explain why the House of Lords can revise and delay legislation but cannot block the elected government, using the Parliament Acts and the Salisbury Convention.
- Identify whether a policy area is devolved, reserved or partly devolved under the reserved powers model, and why that decides who you engage.
- Describe how NHS Wales is governed, from the Welsh health minister and Director General to the seven Local Health Boards, national bodies and the Joint Commissioning Committee.
- Distinguish two tier, unitary, combined authority and parish arrangements and identify which council delivers a given service in each.
- Compare the accountability models of local government, policing, NHS bodies, NHS England's functions and fire and rescue.
- Describe the types of local authority in England and explain what a combined authority and its mayor can and cannot do.
- Describe how MAPPA, integrated health and social care and joint emergency response bring separate bodies together around shared work.
Built from 8 parts.
11 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Westminster from the insideThe public sector map and the House of CommonsBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 02Lords and WhitehallThe House of Lords and the centre of governmentBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 03Wales and the NHSThe Senedd and the NHS in EnglandBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 04Health and policingThe NHS in Wales and policing governanceBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 05How councils came to beTypes of local authority and council structuresBitesize · Foundations of Local Government2 modules
- 06Fire and the council differenceFire and rescue governance and how local government differsBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules
- 07The bigger political pictureNational politics and local government reformBitesize · Working in a Political Environment2 modules
- 08Housing and working togetherWhere housing sits, and multi-agency workingBitesize · The Public Sector2 modules