Case studies

Innovation in local government is about improving the lives of the people in our communities. Browse through our case studies to see the many innovative programmes councils are involved in.

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Erewash Borough Council: Derbyshire Joint Fraud Initiative

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).

Essex County Council preventing and tackling homelessness across the county

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.

Essex County Council, Kent County Council and Suffolk County Council: COVID-19 virtual care

The COVID-19 pandemic has led the Government to take measures to encourage social isolation and slow the spread of the disease.

Essex County Council: Emergenetics pilot offer

Essex County Council’s Strategy, Insight and Engagement (SIE) Senior Management Team participated in the Emergenetics pilot offer. Read below to find out more about the team and their experience of Emergenetics.

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Essex Online Partnership

In 2017, the coastal flooding emergency at Jaywick Sands in Essex highlighted the need for a merging of data sources between the county council and the districts in order to best identify and evacuate vulnerable residents.

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Essex, Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea: POWER project

A design team came together drawing from staff in CAMHS, education, the voluntary sector and Youth Offending Services from three local authorities. The team examined two local critical cases and identified a need for a primarily solution-focused emotional wellbeing support for children in the 8-13 age range.

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Evidence for contribution of CTS to economy

This is a list of validated national and international evidence that may support your outcomes triangle and logic model for the economy.

Evidencing impact on wellbeing in Northumberland

The case study describes Museums Northumberland bait’s use of the Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) to build quantitative evidence of the positive impact on wellbeing of taking part in arts and culture.

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Experiences of employment and skills devolution: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

"devolution is fantastic and I think we've proved we can manage it".

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Experiences of employment and skills devolution: Tees Valley Combined Authority

The combined authority argue that devolving the skills revenue and capital funding in the UK Shared Prosperity Fund would better allow it to align all funding streams and produce a linear model which would offer support to people from transitions into work to progression in the labour market.

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