Paula Gilder

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Background

Paula is a very experienced public sector consultant who specialises in financial, governance and social care issues. She started her career as a local authority accountant before moving into consultancy in 1989, initially with Coopers & Lybrand, where she was responsible for developing and managing the firm's local government consultancy work in Scotland.

 

Since 1994 Paula has been self employed and she works either on her own or as a member of teams brought together for specific pieces of work.

 

Costing

bulletInvestigating the costs of the development management service in England in order to inform decisions about the level and structure of planning application fees and the potential for locally determined fees
bulletIdentifying amounts being spent on dealing with offending by young people and how this had changed over the previous five years
bulletEstimating the additional costs incurred by local authorities as a result of their supersparse geography, high levels of deprivation and/or their small size
bulletAnalysing the costs of the Scottish Prisons Service, specifically the costs associated with activities intended to reduce re-offending
bulletProject Manager for a community budgeting exercise considering services for vulnerable young people
bulletAssessing how the costs of meeting Special Educational Needs would be affected by the greater integration of pupils with SEN in mainstream schools

Funding

bulleto Identifying the range of funding streams from the Scottish Executive to community planning partners which are available for partnership working
bulletMapping the funding of local authorities in Scotland and analysing trends in the nature and scale of local government expenditure
bulletDeveloping a needs based formula to underpin the Grant Aided Expenditure assessments for the eight police forces in Scotland
bulletAdvising the Scottish Executive on a range of issues concerned with the development of the Special Islands Needs Allowance

Governance & Risk Management

bulletPreparing guidance about governance, infrastructure and related issues for Community Justice Authorities
bulletAdvising on linkages between a local authority’s risk management strategy and its business planning process
bulletProfessional adviser to a Council’s Audit and Governance Panel o Contributor to “Audit Committee Principles in Local Authorities in Scotland” published by CIPFA Directors of Finance section
bulletDevelopment of a training programme and associated materials for use in the training of current or potential members of Audit Committees
bulletAdvice in the development of a risk management strategy for a local authority and in its implementation

Shared Services & Efficient Government

bulletProviding advice on the relative costs of different approaches to sharing support services between two institutions
bulletConsidering alternative approaches to funding and monitoring community planning which would free up capacity in line with thinking on efficient government
bulletWorking with a group of newly appointed business managers to develop the optimum structure for the delivery of administrative support services

Service/Project Evaluation

bulletEvaluation of "The Journey", a 3 year programme of personal development and volunteering for vulnerable young people
bulletEvaluation of a project which had redesigned the criminal justice system in a part of Edinburgh, adopting a whole systems approach
bulletEvaluating the impact on the people of Colonsay of the Council's 3 Islands Project and of the Digital Communities initiative.

Social Care Services

bulletEvaluating the impact of Self Directed Support arrangements on the clients who receive such payments and their carers
bulletSupporting a review of a local authority’s charging policy for housing support and community social care services
bulletAdvising a local authority on the updating of its strategy for Supporting People
bulletWorking with a local authority to develop a new customer services approach for social services and their joint working partners
bulletAppraisal of the options available for the procurement of 240 care home places in an area to assist in the process of discharging elderly people from hospital

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