London's Tower Hamlets Council has signed a £70 million deal with services firm Agilsys in an effort to enable ICT to deliver its share of the savings - and create new local jobs.

The seven-year strategic partnership deal with Agilisys is expected to generate more than £29 million in ICT cost savings. Agilsys will implement the council's new finance and HR systems, as well as support its transformation programme.

The deal comes as part of efforts to combat the need to make £100 million of cuts over four years.

The council insisted that the IT team's employment terms and conditions will be fully protected, and that they will also have a no compulsory redundancy guarantee.