Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands (IEWM) supports local authorities and their partners in their drive to increase efficiency and improve local public services. 

IEWM provides specialist support in areas such as efficiency, transformation, shared services, procurement, asset management, people & leadership development and adult and children's services.

Browse this website to find out more about the support we provide, access useful tools and services, and discover how authorities in the West Midlands are improving their performance and saving money in collaboration with Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands.

A major priority is to support authorities and public sector partnerships to improve efficiency. Since April 2008 we have supported the delivery of over £120m savings and we are well on track to achieve our target of £200m savings by March 2013.

View our latest annual report for 2010/11 and our new film Bringing down the Bill - Improving Efficiency in the West Midlands here.