Strategic / Corporate Planning Support
We help our clients identify, develop, and implement lasting strategic change to help them and their organisations meet their business goals. Working alongside our clients’ senior teams, we help develop comprehensive, robust, and practical planning documents ranging from high-level, long term corporate plans to detailed one-year business plans for individual departments. We understand the issues facing organisations within the Local Government sector, including housing and the migrant crisis, and can therefore support you in strategically planning to face these challenges.
Workforce
Planning
We provide project management support to our clients undertaking a range of projects from short, smaller scale projects, to large multi-annual programmes of work. Our team comprises a number of Prince2 qualified practitioners who bring their knowledge and experience to client organisations to ensure success in these bodies of work. We know that managing projects and programmes of work is a constant challenge within the local government sector, and it is critical to ensure this is done in line with best practice to prevent delay or failure. We can manage, or support the management of, these programmes to ensure that they remain on track and aligned with the overall goals.
Economic
Appraisal
We support our clients in planning, preparing, and delivering workshops to inform various processes including strategy development and gather input and views in relation to various matters. In doing so we provide material in advance of workshops, ensure engagement throughout, and document feedback to support our clients. Organisations in the Local Government sector have a broad and diverse range of stakeholders with varying needs and we can provide a tailored service to meet both the needs of these stakeholders, and your organisation.
Project and Programme Management
We support our clients with a broad range of services in relation to ESG whom in the Local Government Sector are subject to mandatory ESG reporting. We can support your organisation in ensuring the implementation of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, the Local Authority Climate Action Plan, and other applicable requirements and targets. For more information on our ESG services click here.
ESG
Services
We are a trusted partner in developing comprehensive business cases tailored for the Public Spending Code. With a deep understanding of the infrastructural guidelines governing capital projects, we seamlessly guide clients through the project lifecycle, from inception to exchequer approval. Our dedicated team excels at providing strategic insights, conducting rigorous economic analysis, assessing and mitigating risks, and emphasising the strategic relevance of projects in terms of delivering optimal value for money. With a client-centric approach, we collaborate closely to integrate our clients’ unique goals and objectives into the business case development process.
Internal
Audit
We support our clients by undertaking reviews and providing recommendations on how best to improve internal control processes, corporate governance arrangements, and risk management procedures in their organisations. The NOAC Internal Audit Report 2023 highlighted 15 key findings and 17 recommendations including the requirement to ensure that there is a system in place to confirm the independence and objectivity of their internal audit function on an annual basis. Our team can support clients in ensuring compliance with best practice and implementing all recommendations applicable to them. For more information see here.
Our services
Strategic and
Operational
Review
We work with a range of businesses and organisations, helping to identify strategic, operational, and costs efficiencies. We conduct detailed evaluations of your current service provision, including value for money reviews, business process re-engineering, client/customer surveys, and efficiency analyses. Working alongside our clients’ senior teams we develop workable plans to achieve real change, based upon many years of practical experience.
Our Local Government team has experience in delivering a broad range of services for organisations within the sector, some of which include:
Business
Cases
Workshop
Planning
and Facilitation
We provide support to our clients in optimising their organisations workforce to ensure the achievement of their strategic objectives. During this process we identify an optimal workforce plan to support our client organisations, assess the current workforce data to identify gaps and overlaps, and provide recommendations and implementation plans to achieve the required state.
An economic appraisal is a systematic process used to evaluate the costs and benefits of a project or policy to determine its overall value and feasibility. We help decision-makers in the Local Government sector to allocate resources efficiently and make informed investment choices. Crowe has excellent experience in the analysis techniques used in economic appraisals, including cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which compares the total expected costs against the anticipated benefits to ascertain net economic value; cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), which evaluates the least costly way to achieve a specific objective; and multi-criteria analysis (MCA), which considers multiple factors and stakeholder preferences when assessing a project's impact. Other methods like economic impact analysis (EIA) are also employed to gauge broader socio-economic impacts and to ensure comprehensive evaluation.