Case studies

Waltham Forest has made early intervention a priority as part of its Prevent work. One of it’s flagship programmes is ‘Digital Resilience’, an education resource for secondary school children and staff designed to safeguard young people from potentially harmful information or views online.

Chorley Council has invested in a number of community action activities as part of the consideration of new service models, moving away from a traditional service delivery approach, to an integrated public services model.

Summary Cycle Blackpool was set up by Blackpool Council to increase the number of people that use and own bikes. This is a way of increasing levels of physical activity and reducing health inequalities. It has started a number of projects that focus specifically on people exposed to health inequalities or already living with chronic conditions.

Calderdale Council's ‘Gateway to Care' has reduced the number of people needing full social care assessments, making significant savings.

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

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

Oldham Council undertook research on the needs of local areas to better understand what motivates different residents to behave in various ways.

Haringey introduced a theory of change planning tool to support development of its early years strategy, working with stakeholders to identify change priorities.

Despite domestic abuse being a national issue that affects huge numbers of people, it's a problem that's often hidden and that people can find extremely difficult to talk about. This can mean that victims, or people at risk of abuse don't always know where to find information that can directly help them.

Central Government is promoting the role of staff-led mutuals in the delivery of public services.