The Review found broad support for a more strategic role for GOs in future. A programme of transformational change will help GOs to streamline their role and build on their strengths to become more influential bodies. The new key objectives for the GO Network will be :
• transforming the way central Government focuses on places, by working with local and regional partners to determine priorities and stretch performance.
• translating Departmental policies into operational delivery, by providing focussed policy and performance feedback to departments about regional delivery challenges and solutions in delivering PSAs
• supporting and challenging regional strategies to improve their quality and consistency.
• more strategic engagement with central government, with each GO taking the lead for a specific policy through the Regional Director working with the relevant department’s senior management on policy implementation and strategic policy advice
Implementation of the review will build on the challenging efficiency agenda set in the 2004 spending review to transform the GO Network into a smaller, more focussed network in the years to come.
