Case studies

Although the existing Surrey survey data was a useful tool, the arguments benefited from being broadened out to encompass evidence and examples from beyond Surrey to demonstrate to new partners the economic benefits of employing hidden talent and that this is not just a local agenda but part of a larger set of issues being recognised and championed globally by both small and large employers.

Surrey Heath has consolidated a mix of old on-premise and other cloud GIS services into a single XMAP Cloud GIS system. The service provides mapping and GIS services for staff, public and contractors. It supports our accelerated agile working agenda whilst also saving the Council licensing costs and implementation costs.

The Surrey Index provides information at various levels of geography: boroughs and districts, ward, Local Community Networks, and Primary Care Networks, super output areas, and also allows a comparison with our statistical neighbours, and includes the most recent data available on a whole host of indicators.

Surrey County Council has set up a specialist outreach team to work with the most hardto-reach drinkers.

In 2014 East Surrey CCG embarked on a project to improve the medical care of residents of nursing and residential homes. This example of a local initiative forms part of our managing transfers of care resource.

Surrey County Council has been utilising the strength of the voluntary, community and faith sector to reach those communities that are most in need of extra support.

Walsall council used mobile testing and adapted their approach to reach different groups.

The Government announced that surge testing was to take place in Norfolk on Tuesday 16 February.  The testing started the following day focussing on the market towns of Diss and Roydon, which are home to around 10,000 people. 

In May 2017, North Somerset Council added a new suite of financial wellbeing products to its employee benefits package. At no risk or cost to the council, they have already delivered an average saving of £1,029 for those who have taken advantage of them.

East Sussex County Council worked over three months, across the council and partners, prototyping a new multidisciplinary outreach operations team. They provided intensive support to residents in temporary accommodation to enable them to live more independently.