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.
Essex County Council is enabling people to live as independently as possible, by deploying care technologies, reducing dependency on long-term, higher cost care and support. They recognize that most people benefitting from care technology are in the older people population and they are exploring more how care technology can be utilized across other adults.
Essex County Council is committed to supporting unpaid carers, whose vital contributions are often undervalued. In 2022, the Essex All-Age Carers Strategy was developed to enhance support for carers, with six key commitments to improve access to resources, wellbeing, and community recognition. The strategy led to the Essex Carers Model, which includes the Essex Wellbeing Service for initial contact, the Essex Carers Core Offer of Support (ECCOS), a digital service, and the Carers Voice initiative. Extensive stakeholder engagement and coproduction were key to its success. The ambition is to support over 12,500 carers through the redesigned core offer
Responding to the global climate emergency is a fundamental priority for Essex County Council (ECC). Environment has been identified as one of the four core themes of ECC’s Everyone’s Essex organisational strategy.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council was keen to explore how they could use the national shared workforce priorities to support the adult social care workforce programme that they were developing locally.
Yorkshire and Humber, like many other regions, identify their workforce as their biggest asset, but also an area of significant challenge. Keeping pace with a pandemic, and with rapid demographic, political, economic and technological changes, requires a sharpened focus on doing the right thinks to allow the workforce to thrive.
Rotherham Council has developed an early years education and childcare strategy to raise awareness of this important stage of development in a child’s life and ensure oversight of the identified priorities for the borough, with a particular focus on early identification of need.
Holding council meetings online, first adopted in response to the COVID-19 lockdowns, has led to a greater diversity of elected councillors in this geographically large council area.
The ambition for the West Midlands has now been reframed away from a narrow focus on sport to an ambition to becoming an exemplary region for Disabled people across the board.