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Shared legal service with neighbouring authorities
Neighbouring authorities buying similar external legal work might share specialist capacity, reducing external spend — if governance and conflicts are resolved.
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Commercial demand, suppliers, partnerships, neighbouring authorities, businesses and external funding.
- Which partner authorities have similar demand?
- What hosting and charging model is lawful and acceptable?
Cross-service connections
Governance & legal → Children's services Demand link
Care proceedings are often a significant legal demand driver.
Governance & legal → HR & workforce Shared capacity
Shared recruitment and training for scarce roles.
Rationale
Pooling scarce specialist capacity can improve resilience as well as cost.
Inappropriate when…
- Partners' demand profiles conflict
- Set-up costs and governance burden outweigh savings
Evidence required
- External legal spend by category
- Partner appetite
- Conflict management model
Potential public impacts
- Improved resilience
- Risk of reduced local responsiveness
Statutory & governance checks
Shown for England. No clearance is implied.- Requires validation
Legal power to provide services to other public bodies — no researched source yet
- Requires validation
Procurement rules and contract terms