Rose Crozier, head of IS at Belfast City Council, has
been appointed as the new president of the Society of IT Management
(Socitm).
Crozier’s council has played a key role in plans to
share services between all 27 councils in
Northern Ireland.
The appointment comes just months before local authority IT
directors learn how much money they will get over the next three
years.
This summer, the Treasury will announce the budgets for every
local authority in the three-yearly Comprehensive Spending
Review.
Council leaders expect that the Treasury will ask for further
year-on-year efficiency gains. IT departments will be involved in
most major projects to cut local authority costs.
Crozier will lead Socitm’s response when the Treasury reveals
its plans to consolidate public sector contact centres. Whitehall
watchers expect the Treasury to announce these plans at the same
time as the
Comprehensive Spending Review.
Earlier this year, a Socitm survey of nearly 3,000 senior
council officers found that only a third of councils shared contact
centres.
Councils cut IT spending by £600m in 2007
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