Case studies

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).

Helping people through the recession Erewash Borough Council has been working with partners to help local people through the recession. It aims to ensure that residents with money worries or mortgage problems know how to get the support that's available.

With the help of Mind, Oxford City Council set about improving rates of sickness absence related to stress and anxiety by better equipping line mangers and staff to understand and talk about mental health issues at work.

How a council embedded equality into the heart of its long - term vision for the City and its corporate and business plans.

The LGA and English councils can learn a lot from international experience and innovation on meeting today's housing challenges. Following a request from the LGA's People and Places Board we have drawn together a collection of international housing examples from Europe and across the world.