What are other local authorities doing?

Looking at the range of advice and guidance produced, there are a number of different models that boroughs could consider. However, all the models identified here and elsewhere primarily fall into three distinct approaches;

• Strategic reorganisation/ rationalisation
• Shared Services
• Private Sector Provision 

Strategic reorganisation/rationalisation

These boroughs have made a conscious decision to keep strategic control of the services they deliver whilst radically reviewing the current delivery model. There is a  recognition of the need to adapt to the current, more challenging, realities. For example;

• London Borough of Brent has had a radical rethink of its libraries provision. The Libraries Transformation Project proposes an extension of the range of services provided while also rationalising the number of libraries within the borough.
• London Borough of Camden has recently completed a public consultation on how its library service should be reorganised in order to deliver £1.6m in savings. Following the public consultation,  Camden will be looking to re-shape and re-scope library services through a “mixed model” that spreads the impact of savings between reductions in opening hours and fewer libraries

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