UK Prison Service to save £35m a year with new HR shared services model  

12 December 2008:

Robin Wilkinson said the roll-out of a new shared services model would be completed next year and aimed to radically improve how HR was delivered within the service.

As a result of the changes, the number of head office HR staff has been cut by 370, with some posts transferred to the new shared service centre based in Newport, Wales. About two-thirds of the former heads of personnel in individual prisons are now HR business partners, Wilkinson added, with the remaining third made up from fresh blood.

"The driver behind this [project] was money and it has enabled us to completely transform what we do and how we do it," he told Personnel Today.

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Source: Personnel Today

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