PRESS RELEASE
The Institute of Revenues Rating and Valuation have entered into a strategic partnership with
Q2 who are focused on improving performance and efficiency in Local Government and have helped over 70 Councils deliver significant savings during the last 17 years.
The partnership will see the two organisations assist authorities in understanding how their future resource requirements for ongoing Housing Benefit administration and Universal Credit implementation will vary over time and allow them to compare their progress with each other using Q2’s QPredict Resource Modelling Service.
QPredict is a tool which allows organisations to quickly determine what impact changes they are considering will make on staffing and other costs. It also allows organisations to compare different scenarios using task volumes, time taken and allocation of tasks to job roles and related costs across one or many locations. It will then show you how many staff you need to deliver that level of work taking into account matters such as sickness levels and holidays.
The partnership with the IRRV was signed at a launch event hosted at the University of Warwick Science Park’s Blythe Valley Innovation Centre.
Steve Taylor, Managing Director of Q2, said: “We’re delighted to have formalised this partnership with the IRRV. The collaboration will see us providing support to authorities across the UK, allowing them to forecast their resource needs and benchmark their revenues and housing benefits services, regionally and nationally”
Chief Executive of the IRRV, David Magor, said “We’re confident this new collaboration can play a major role in supporting Local Authorities to prepare and react to the welfare reform agenda and deliver best practice across the UK.”
The partnership has also seen Q2 and IRRV publish a joint white paper titled ‘Sustaining your Revenues and Benefits Services through Universal Credit and Beyond’.
Mark Homer, from the University Of Warwick Science Park said: “This collaboration has the potential to have a hugely positive impact on the work of a vast number of Local Authorities and we were pleased to host the national launch.”
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Notes for the Editor
The Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV) was founded in 1882 and has over 4,000 members. It is the UK’s leading professional body in the field of local authority revenues, valuation for local taxation and locally-administered benefits.
Contacts for further information:
David Magor OBE IRRV (Hons), IRRV Chief Executive: 07736 673414 (including out of office hours) and Steve Taylor at steve.taylor@q2.ltd.uk
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