Long and successful strategic relationship

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Liberata has had a long and successful strategic relationship with the London Borough of Bromley since 2002. During the lifetime of the contract, Liberata has taken on additional services and expanded our finance and HR services to schools. Bromley face enormous cost saving challenges and needs to save £30m over the next four years.

How Liberata helped

Increased efficiency

Supporting employers during changing times by removing paper from the DBS process, reducing processing times and ensuring people can start jobs earlier and employers can be assured they have completed the checks.

A personal approach

Changes were made to the citizen contact process as part of a Static Debts Pilot Project. With the creation of tailored communications to long term debtors, there has been a higher engagement with Recovery Officers for the first time in many years.

Technology

Working jointly with the council we have developed, tested and implemented the first phase of the ASH debt recovery system. The team and management are benefitting from the automation of tasks, increasing efficiency and the visibility of work performance and the status of debts at a glance.

Social value

Our staff will discreetly assess a customer’s needs as to whether an appointment is the best way to engage with them ensuring more appointments are available for those who need them most.

Our targets were...

Expand the channel shift programme

with the roll out of additional self-serve functionality.

Multi-skill contact centre teams

to enable them to rotate between face-to-face and phone services allowing us to use the best resources in the right place.

Increase support for vulnerable customers

by allocating more appointments to them.

Create and deliver new services

which included the launch of an online DBS service and a new process in the collection of static debts.

Overhaul the revenues and benefits appointment process

which has reduced no-shows and late arrivals.

Work in partnership

to deliver further efficiencies through the roll out of the ASH debt recovery system.

What we achieved

£44k

collected from static debts that were due to be written off

99.92%

accuracy on payroll

94%

of schools in the borough using our services

792 hours

removed from DBS processing time

92.3%

of customers seen in 15 minutes

£773k

additional cash collected in Council Tax and Business Rates arrears

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As a Council we are focused on ensuring that the services delivered are both sustainable and of the highest quality. We are delighted to be working with Liberata to help deliver these services on behalf of our residents and businesses. Liberata stood out with its ability to drive transformational change and improve customer access and digital services.
Richard Baker
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
Following a formal process and tender notice, Liberata stood out with its ability to transform our services and improve customer access and digital services. Liberata has demonstrated it can achieve high collection rates across business rates and Council Tax services and benefits by improving processing times. We look forward to working with Liberata to help transform these services for our residents and ensuring we are providing the appropriate levels of support to the most vulnerable in our area.
A spokesperson for Swindon Borough Council
Swindon Borough Council
Eastleigh Borough Council has worked with Liberata for a number of years who undertake the council's empty home reviews, and I must say, their service exceeded all expectations. From start to finish, they demonstrated professionalism, efficiency, and a genuine commitment to addressing this critical issue in our community. Thanks to Liberata, the council has been able to maximise our empty home bonus year on year. This positive impact on our community cannot be overstated.
Kerrie Thomas
Eastleigh Borough Council
The RV Finder service from Liberata has really helped us ensure that our data is as accurate as possible and, when the VOA has processed the outstanding cases, I fully expect to see more than £1,000,000 of additional RV. The “risk and reward” model works well and the Council only has to pay for their success and the service is something that we will use on a regular basis.
Steve King
Leicester City Council
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