Case studies

Case studies range from multi-agency approaches, regional initiatives, awareness raising campaigns and comprehensive service reviews.

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.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council's communications team reviewed existing data across different council departments to grow its subscriber base to over 75,000 residents.

In 2012, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, through its Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB), created a short development programme. It was intended to bring a greater focus and coherence to the work being undertaken across the borough to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. The programme was designed to:

The council and partners in Durham took an inclusive approach by ensuring that the main NHS providers were included in the decision-making process in order to drive improvements in health and wellbeing and to add value to the current way of working and to ensure a more coordinated patient pathway.

The LGA provided leadership support and development for Sandwell Health and Wellbeing Board during May to September 2012. The support identified the following challenges: