Local delivery placed centre stage by HCA

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has published a new staff structure that focuses the whole organisation on regional and local delivery.

The structure, which has been produced for consultation with the entire staff, re-casts the HCA’s existing resources to make the most impact on the ground. It creates a single, unified HCA with a close relationship between corporate and regional teams and a consistent emphasis on high quality, cost effective, local delivery.

The new structure adds 100 staff to front line regional delivery teams without increasing the total size of the HCA. It achieves this by increasing the number of posts in the nine regions by 60 and reducing the number of posts across the corporate teams by the same number. At the same time some corporate activities, together with approximately 40 posts associated with them, will be moved to the regions.

Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive of the HCA said: 'Just four months after creating the HCA we are today consulting staff on its final shape. This makes a reality of our vision of a national agency that works locally. We are already delivering the new business of the HCA and our regional teams are engaged in their first single conversations with local authorities. This new structure builds on the skills and expertise of our staff to create quality places. It gives us the regional capacity to deliver our ambitious new programme, bringing life to local visions right across the country.'