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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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Lincolnshire County Council: creating strategic alliances for employment and skills challenges

Lincolnshire County Council are faced with the challenge of working across a large and dispersed county. By creating strategic alliances, they have developed provision that enables them to meet their skills and employment challenges. This case study examines the current system, and what is needed to improve outcomes for the local community.

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Lincolnshire County Council: getting people engaged

The NHS and county council in Lincolnshire have worked with partners to use social media and the local press to get the message out there about the importance of self care. It has helped reach thousands of local people. This forms part of our resource on self care.

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Lincolnshire County Council: Supporting children in care, care leavers and Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children with their mental health needs

Lincolnshire County Council have sought a different way to support their care experienced children with their mental health. Knowing that there are sometimes long waiting times for specialist support, the council identified a way to support social work staff to hold the mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of care associated children.

Lincolnshire Independent Living Partnership: hospital avoidance response team

The hospital avoidance response team – HART – service is delivered by members of the Lincolnshire Independent Living Partnership and takes referrals from secondary care discharge hubs, A&E in-reach teams, the ambulance service, primary care and community health providers. This example of a local initiative forms part of our managing transfers of care resource.

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Lincolnshire: hospital avoidance response team

The hospital avoidance response team – HART – service is delivered by members of the Lincolnshire Independent Living Partnership and takes referrals from secondary care discharge hubs, A&E in-reach teams, the ambulance service, primary care and community health providers. This example of a local initiative forms part of our managing transfers of care resource.

Lincolnshire: Let’s embrace the ratings system

Lincolnshire County Council was the first council to go through a pilot CQC assessment. The council's Executive Director for Adult Care and Community Wellbeing Glen Garrod said he was motivated to put Lincolnshire forward because he believes it is time for social care departments to open themselves up to a system of inspection with ratings.

Lincolnshire: care home trusted assessor

Managing transfers of care: an example of how a local area is working to implement system change. In Lincolnshire, a number of delays were occurring while waiting for care homes to visit the acute hospital to carry out assessments. Lincolnshire chose to address this through the introduction of a care home trusted assessor role, which would not only enable assessments to be carried out more quickly, but would also help to develop relationships and trust across the system.

Linking People, Place & Parking in Sleaford Town Centre

In 2017/18 North Kesteven District Council undertook a customer-led review of parking provision that resulted in a joined-up approach to managing parking quality, quantity and cost within Sleaford town centre.

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Little Minds Matter Bradford

This project aims to help families understand the importance of good mental health and offers support where there are concerns or challenges with the parent-infant relationship as a result of for example, a traumatic birth, loss or bereavement, low mood or anxiety.

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Little Troopers: cross-agency partnership to support young, vulnerable families in Swindon

Little Troopers is a cross-agency partnership between Swindon Libraries and Information Service, Family Nurse Partnership, Housing, and Care Leavers teams to support young, vulnerable families. The open, drop-in group is for parents up to 25 years, with the average age around 20, and their children up to age three.

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