Case studies

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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Hackney early interaction project

The Hackney Early Interaction Project is a pilot project which has gathered and applied learning on how local services can best facilitate children’s early language development. The project has taken a deep dive in to one neighbourhood in the London Borough of Hackney, by mapping and building on the strengths of current local systems to enhance the universal and early language offer in the community. The Hackney Early Interaction project has been funded through the North-East London Integrated Commissioning Board (NEL ICB) Place Based Partnership from September 2022-March 2024.

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Increasing uptake of the Healthy Start scheme in Hounslow

In January 2022, the uptake rate of the Healthy Start scheme in Hounslow was 49 per cent After implementing a series of awareness raising and educational interventions, the uptake was 57% in January 2023. Following another year of more targeted promotion of the scheme, the uptake was 71 per cent in 2024.

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Blackpool: Providing dedicated support to sex workers

Blackpool Council has an integrated alcohol, drugs and sexual health support service for all residents known as Horizon and delivered by a partnership of different organisations.

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Newham Council's Just Transition Plan

Newham Council launched the UK’s first Just Transition Plan to support its local net zero targets. The plan shifts focus from a purely decarbonisation approach to a wider stance embedding core principles of increasing equity for residents and adapting to the worsening impacts of climate change.

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Bristol: Encouraging the black community to use PrEP

Bristol city council and local NHS have made HIV prevention for people of African or Caribbean heritage a key priority.

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Brighton and Hove: How a PrEP app is helping manage demand

A digital pathway for PrEP has been developed  in Brighton and Hove to allow people to manage their PrEP digitally, reducing the number of appointments they need to attend A community clinic has also been set up and has had great success in engaging seldom-seen groups

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Whitechapel Development Programme

The life sciences development in Whitechapel will become a core part of the UK-wide life sciences industrial strategy, aiming to accelerate innovation and adoption of new healthcare products and services, providing substantial new economic, employment and training opportunities for local communities in Tower Hamlets. The One Public Estate partnership has enabled these benefits to be identified and quantified to support the case for the life sciences cluster to become a key driver of regeneration in East London.

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London: Raising awareness through a multi-media marketing campaign

32 London boroughs started collaborating on HIV prevention marketing campaigns 10 years ago when the Do It London brand was launched by the London HIV Prevention Programme.

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Southwest: Creating a sex positive PrEP message for wider populations

Councils in the south west started looking at ways of increasing equity of access of PrEP in other groups to address this in late 2021.

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Derbyshire: Spreading knowledge far and wide

The integrated sexual health service has created an HIV Pledge for local organisations and individuals to sign up to.

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