{"id":79724,"date":"2017-03-14T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4d99cb2bd7964f5373b12345dcaa8290"},"modified":"2017-03-14T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:49:29","slug":"news-story-ministry-of-justice-joins-shared-services-programme-set-to-save-300m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79724","title":{"rendered":"News story: Ministry of Justice joins shared services programme set to save \u00a3300m"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>This marks a major milestone for the Government\u2019s Shared Services programme with the transfer of approximately 75,000 Minister of Justice (MoJ) employees\u2019 data onto the single IT operating platform during the past month.<\/p>\n<p>MoJ\u2019s migration is part of the government\u2019s transfer of back-office functions, including human resources, finance and payroll, to the Shared Services programme. The programme is creating more efficient and cost-effective services for government and the wider public sector.<\/p>\n<p>As well as making significant savings the platform is also secure, sustainable and easily upgraded for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for the Constitution, Chris Skidmore said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I welcome this important step towards realising over \u00a3300 million of savings for the taxpayer through implementing shared services across Government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are addressing the challenges involved in cross-government business transformation and the programme is successfully delivering one of the biggest IT platforms for government in Europe with over 300,000 users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Shared service centres deliver business services at a significantly lower cost to the taxpayer while ensuring effective services for government and the public sector wherever possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government announces that the Ministry of Justice has moved onto the wider Shared Services strategy for government, saving \u00a3300million by 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}