Case studies

The £4.8 million, five-year Trees Outside Woodland project is funded by HM Government’s Shared Outcomes Fund, and delivered in partnership with The Tree Council, Natural England, Defra, and five local authorities.

Grass verges, open land, woodland and individual trees have all been counted in an independent audit commissioned by Darlington Borough Council.

Warwickshire County Council's Access to Food project uses large language models to understand citizens' access to healthy food options.

West Berkshire Council are experimenting with the use of generative AI within services.

North Yorkshire Council's successful proof-of-concept has positioned it at the forefront of AI-powered solutions for children's social care.

Dorset Council, with funding from the Digitising Social Care Programme, are piloting the use of innovative acoustic monitoring in care homes across the whole of the Dorset Integrated Care System.

Somerset Council took a pioneering step by launching a discovery project to explore Microsoft Copilot.

Birmingham City Council established the ‘Foundry’ to accelerate digital transformation and help the council close its budget gap whilst building digital skills and capability. 

Tackling poverty and inequality is at the heart of the overall vision for the future of Leeds. The Financial Inclusion team take an innovative, test and learn approach to support residents with dignity and deliver on this ambition.

The ESCC set up a project based on a ‘social prescribing' approach to personalised care. The project aimed to use Personal Health Budgets to support care experienced young people who were identified as experiencing difficulties with their Mental Health and Wellbeing, whose lives were impacted adversely from their own experiences in life, as well as through the Covid-19 pandemic.