THAT Cabinet

(a)               Note progress made on the Shared Services Project since March 2010  and

(b)               Note the current challenges and risks, principally:

                                                                           i.      Review of the Business Case;

                                                                         ii.      Partnership agreement for establishing the JVCo;

                                                                       iii.      Fundamental requirement for cultural and process change across the whole of HPS to deliver savings;

                                                                       iv.      Implementation of the Agresso system in April 2011;

(c)               Note the key role of all stakeholders in leading the organisational and cultural changes required to deliver transformed support services and savings;

(d)               Note that a further report seeking formal decision to agree terms of the partners’ participation in the JVCo will be presented to the Board and Cabinet in September.