Case studies

Despite domestic abuse being a national issue that affects huge numbers of people, it's a problem that's often hidden and that people can find extremely difficult to talk about. This can mean that victims, or people at risk of abuse don't always know where to find information that can directly help them.

When Essex County Council decided it needed to change the way the organisation worked,it went straight to its people. Holly Baker, People and change communications manager at Essex County Council explains all.

When the Essex Partner's Group began developing their vision for the Future of Essex the council knew its corporate story needed to reflect the wider ambitions for the place.

The LGA supported project was aimed at supporting the implementation of the Future of Essex Vision priority to prevent and tackle homelessness across the county.

In May 2023, Essex County Council unveiled the new Carbon Cutting Essex app, which will play an important role in helping Essex to transform to become a greener county.

Essex County Council secured £100,000 from the first round of the UK Community Renewal Fund to establish a new electric vehicle centre at Harlow College.

Essex County Council trialled three new messages to Blue Badge customers to find the most effective way of encouraging them to apply online rather than by post.

Essex County Council is working with Dimensions, a not-for-profit support provider for people with autism and learning disabilities, to provide housing brokerage to people with a wide range of needs, combining housing brokerage; tenancy sustainment and rent deposit schemes which were previously split between four providers.

An example of how a large- scale community dance project achieved transformational social and cultural outcomes and won national awards for its contribution to community cohesion.

The consortium formulated the bid intended to enable fraud investigation capacity to be retained by councils following the introduction of the Single Fraud Investigation Service (SFIS) by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).