The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is intended to provide powers to introduce minimum levels of service during strikes across certain key sectors. The government’s intention is to mitigate the disruption of strike action to the public and ensure their safety.
Authors: Stephen Miller, Ruth Bonino, and Abarna Harindra – Clyde & Co
9th May 2023
BSA member Clyde & Co have produced the following article on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill.
The Bill is intended to provide powers to introduce minimum levels of service during strikes across certain key sectors.
Click here to read the full article.
For further information, or to find out more about the BSA, please contact bsa@bsa-org.com
Guest Blog by Professor Gary Sturgess
The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit has an honourable history, and the decision by the current Prime Minister to re-establish it is to be welcomed. As a business leader commented to me recently – good government is five percent policy, 10 percent implementation and 85 percent delivery.
In tracing the origins of the PMDU, we must go back to the ‘Next Steps’ report, published by the Efficiency Unit (as it was then called) in 1988. The formal title of this report – ‘Improving Management in Government’ – captured the organisation’s mission, and that one report, written by a small team over a period of several months, had a profound impact on the structure of government over the decades that followed. (And, by the way, ‘Next Steps’ claimed that 95 percent of the Civil Service was concerned with delivery.)
Continue reading “Business Services Sector are ideal partners in government quest for delivery”The BSA has written to Michael Gove following this week’s welcome announcement that fully vaccinated critical workers will be able to leave self-isolation in exceptional circumstances, under plans to prevent serious disruption to vital public services, and to request that full consideration is given to BSA members in this regard.
Read the letter in full here.
The BSA has published its response to the Department for Education’s consultation on flexi-job apprenticeships.
Read the full response here.
Ahead of World FM Day on Wednesday 12th May, members of the Business Services Association’s Cleaning Committee have prepared a series of their personal profiles aimed at promoting the cleaning sector and to celebrate working within Soft FM.
The profiles below are testament both to the rewards of working within the industry as well the variety of potential routes to working within Soft FM.
The BSA Cleaning Committee provides a forum to share industry best practice, including on skills and training, draws up messaging about the sector and represents the interests of cleaning service providers to stakeholders. Thank you to those committee members who have supplied their profiles below.
Continue reading “BSA Cleaning Committee Personal Profiles for World FM Day 2021”The BSA has responded to the Government’s publication of the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement.
We strongly welcome the Green Paper, which reflects a significant step forward in the Government’s continued efforts to increase the value and efficiency of public service delivery – efforts that the BSA and its members have long supported.
We hope that the recommendations contained within this response can further support the Government’s work in this crucial policy area and have therefore only responded to the most relevant questions for BSA members as set out in the consultation.
The Business Services Association is delighted to confirm its support for His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’ Terra Carta, part of the Sustainable Markets initiative.
Terra Carta will provide a roadmap to 2030 for businesses to move towards an ambitious and sustainable future; one that will harness the power of Nature combined with the transformative power, innovation and resources of the private sector.
Further details, including how to register your organisation’s support for the initiative, can be found here.
The BSA has made its submission ahead of Budget 2021. The submission focusses on the following: project delivery; investment and green recovery; supporting businesses and VCSE organisations; and the levelling up agenda.
You can read the full submission here.
The BSA will be submitting supplementary documents. Please send any further comments or matters arising to piers.neill@bsa-org.com
The BSA has responded to a letter from Gillian Keegan, Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, following our proposal on levy funded short courses.
Read the full letter here.
The BSA has sent a supplementary letter to the Chancellor following the Government’s recent announcements of further support measures for job retention, retraining and upskilling.
The letter builds upon many of the points in our submission ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review and focuses on job retention, upskilling and retraining (including Kickstart), supplier relief and office leases.
Read the full letter here.
Mark Fox, BSA Cheif Executive, wrote to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to set out members’ priorities ahead of the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review. The Submission focussed on project delivery; investment and green recovery; supporting business and VCSE organisations; and the levelling up agenda.
Read it in full here.
In response to Covid-19, and for a temporary period, the Business Services Association’s Apprenticeships, Skills and Training Group proposes that Levy funds should be able to be spent on courses that are shorter than 12 months.
BSA Member CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP has produced the following briefing note – setting out the key implications of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020.
Read the full post here: https://www.cms-lawnow.com/ealerts/2020/07/corporate-insolvency-and-governance-act-2020
The BSA has submitted the following feedback to the five BEIS task forces on economic recovery.
This includes a letter to Business Secretary Alok Sharma from the BSA Chief Executive Mark Fox.
Continue reading “BSA Contribution to BEIS Taskforces on Economic Recovery”
The BSA’s Regional Panels have drawn together a paper on reopening Britain’s economy and how the role the sector has to play to further the Government’s Levelling Up Agenda.
Continue reading “Getting Britain Going Again: The Levelling Up Agenda”
The BSA Scotland Group has produced a paper on Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: 10 lessons from lockdown.
Continue reading “BSA Scotland Group – Inclusive and Sustainable Growth”
The BSA has received the following documents from BEIS in relation to the NHS Test and Trace Programme.
Continue reading “NHS Test and Trace – Workplace Guidance and other documents”
The latest FAQs on Covid-19 Testing.
Continue reading “Coronavirus National Testing Programme FAQs v6 18.5.20”
The BSA has produced a paper setting out the challenges and opportunities members have identified in the short and medium term, as the economy sets out on its recovery journey.
The BSA welcomes the Government’s publication of the roadmap and the working safely guidance. However, we urge the Government to work more closely with business and the VCSE sector to ensure a smooth re-engagement in delivery of public and private services.
You can read the full document here. [Updated 25.6.20]
The BSA’s summary of the Government’s Plan to Return document.
