Regional Centres of Excellence
- The Regional Centres of Excellence programme concluded on 31 March 2008.
- From 1 April, the nine Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs), which represent a merger between the Centres of Excellence and their improvement counterparts, went live.
- The RIEPs are partnerships of councils and other local service providers working together to deliver excellent Local Area Agreement outcomes, achieve 3% efficiency savings and support economic growth and community empowerment. The foundations laid by the Regional Centres of Excellence, which have helped councils deliver over £4bn in efficiencies, will be integral to the success of the partnerships.
- The RIEPs will play a crucial role in ensuring that all councils and their partners can access support from a range of programmes and initiatives and in doing so, will provide a place for a single conversation on improvement and efficiency needs.
- A new national RIEP website will be available in the near future. In the meantime, this site will remain live so you can access its information and you can also visit individual RIEP sites where these are live – some are also under development.
- The RIEPs are supported by a Programme Office, based at the Improvement and Development Agency (I&DeA). Contact details for the Programme Office can be found below:
- Keith Beaumont – Programme Manager
Email: keith.beaumont@idea.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7296 6828
- Adrian Bentley – Project Coordinator
Email: adrian.bentley@idea.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7296 6754
- Seth Brook – National Communications Manager
Email: seth.brook@idea.gov.uk
Tel: 07976 109192
