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Govern-IT learning simulation (serious game)
Govern-IT models a local authority. Teams play services, members and external partners,
together they need to improve the local authority. The members team have to show
leadership and, along with corporate team, steer strategy. Efficiency savings have
to be made and quality improved while managing risk.
Some of the key messages include:
- Prevention is better than cure.
- Risk management is not the same as risk aversion.
- Considering impacts across the whole council is key to achieving good governance.
- Overview and scrutiny improves services, community focus, and decision-making.
Govern-IT brings clarity to a complex problem by showing cause and effect. Delegates
get to see the ‘big picture’ and to develop win-win solutions, which makes the issues
real, relevant, and manageable.
Govern-IT has been used in local council member induction, cabinet member recruitment,
shared learning across city councils, and governance training.
Applications/Outcomes:
- Increasing awareness of governance.
- Risk analysis and contingency planning.
- Understanding cause and effect.
- Shared learning across local authorities and departments ( to reduce silo perspective).
- Team building and Away Days.
- Induction (including member induction).
- Cabinet Member recruitment.
Audience
- Local Council Members.
- Local Council Officers.
- Finance and Audit Teams.
- Overview and Scrutiny committee members.
- Local Authority Planning and Policy teams.
