DAY-1 STATUTORY ASSURANCE

De-Risking the Most High-Stakes Public Merger

Merging councils face legally binding Vesting Day deadlines. If Council Tax billing fails, benefits payments stall, or safeguarding records become inaccessible during cutover, the financial and human costs are catastrophic.

Civic Shift brings battle-tested transitional architecture, cutover runbooks, and multi-supplier decommissioning strategies. We ensure your Joint Committees, Chief Executives, and S151 Officers have total visibility and confidence from day one.

Core LGR Transformation Areas

✓ Day-1 Statutory Continuity: Fail-safe cutover plans for revenues, benefits, and social care.
✓ Systems Rationalisation: Consolidating duplicate Northgate, Civica, Idox, and Capita instances.
✓ Target Operating Model (TOM): Unified service delivery architecture for the new unitary body.
✓ MTFS Efficiency Realisation: Eliminating duplicate licensing to release multi-million savings.

ENGAGEMENT LEVELS

LGR Transformation Delivery Tiers

Bronze Level

LGR Digital Readiness & Risk Diagnostic

Rapid baseline audit of merging councils' IT estates and Day-1 statutory risks.

✓ Multi-council IT inventory
✓ Day-1 statutory risk register
✓ S151 Officer briefing paper

Silver Level

Workstream Convergence & Transition Blueprint

Systems consolidation plan and data migration blueprint for priority workstreams.

✓ Priority workstream blueprints
✓ Data migration & archiving strategy
✓ Cutover runbooks for core systems

Gold Level

Full Unitary Target Operating Model & Delivery

Comprehensive LGR digital transformation across all uniting councils.

✓ Unitary Target Operating Model
✓ Multi-supplier decommissioning roadmap
✓ Single view of the citizen platform

★ Platinum Level

Full Ownership of Problem (Day-1 Continuity)

When failure is not an option. Full practice accountability for Day-1 readiness.

✓ Guaranteed Day-1 statutory readiness
✓ Stalled supplier dispute resolution
✓ Embedded Transformation Director

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