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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Promoting independence and resilience

Lancashire County Council used customer profiling tools to see who would benefit from low-level interventions.

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Supporting Lives, Connecting Communities

Suffolk County Council is changing attitudes, cultures and behaviours to social care through its ‘Supporting Lives Connecting Communities' programme.

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Customer-led transformation: Services and benefits take up by low income families

The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities sought to understand young families' needs to improve engagement on existing and future services.

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Children’s health and wellbeing in Croydon

Croydon focused on the 'early years' to design and implement a programme based on early intervention and prevention rather than dependency.

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London Borough of Harrow: transforming services through digital

The council wanted to reduce the resources being used on paper-based services and the processing of electoral registrations, while providing customers with a convenient one-stop site to register for a number of services, thereby improving the customer's experience and reducing costs.

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East Lindsey District Council: delivering affordable housing through the Housing Capital Programme

Between 2004 and April 2015, the Council committed to invest £7,625,000 of capital income to deliver new affordable housing

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Understanding customer needs to support older, vulnerable adults

Chorley Council used its Circle of Customer Need methodology to better understand the needs of older people experiencing fuel poverty.

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Environment and Housing - Housing - Case studies - Increasing access to the private rented sector through Homefinder

Homefinder.uk.com is a new website which aims to improve the standard of privately rented properties in Leicestershire.

Promoting independence in older people

The London Borough of Hackney has delivered a major transformation programme to promote independence.

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Wealden District Council

Working with developers for the past two and a half years to unblock stalled developments.

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