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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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Richmond and Wandsworth Councils: Using the Standards for employers of public health teams in England to inform a workforce development project

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils have an agreement to share the workforce and staffing structure across the two boroughs. Over the last two years, the councils have reviewed the capacity of their public health workforce to understand its strengths and weaknesses in terms of the required skills and knowledge.

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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.

Commissioning housing support for people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness - Warrington Borough Council

Warrington Borough Council commissioned several organisations to provide accommodation-based and floating support to people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.

Maximising a Council’s soft assets in a leisure context

A project which commenced over three years ago with initial support from the LGA’s Productivity Experts Programme and phase one will launch in June 2019.

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South Tyneside Council: Review of children’s services in the Borough

In October 2018, South Tyneside Council participated in the Productivity Expert Programme to review their directly provided childcare service. This report outlines the project and considers the conclusions of the final report and identifies the way forward. This case study forms part of our productivity experts resource.

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Healthy New Towns Programme: Cranbrook

Cranbrook, is a green field development new town within East Devon to the north east of Exeter. With a current population of about 4,500 expected to rise to over 18,000 by 2030. 

Buckinghamshire Health and Wellbeing Board

Buckinghamshire is a first-wave integrated care system (ICS) within Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. This case study forms part of our integrated care system (ICS) resource.

Rotherham Health and Wellbeing Board

Rotherham is part of South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, a first-wave integrated care system (ICS). The places within the ICS are developing as integrated care partnerships (ICPs), and a key message from the ICS is that ‘place’ is put first.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board

Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are coterminous with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), which is developing into an integrated care system (ICS).

Gloucestershire Health and Wellbeing Board

Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS providers are coterminous with One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS), a second-wave ICS which covers around 635,000 people. This case study forms part of our integrated care systems (ICS) resource.