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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Performance management at Cheshire West and Chester Council

This case study describes how Cheshire West and Chester Council developed a revised performance management framework (PMF) alongside its new council plan.

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Performance management at High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council

This case study describes how High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council have embedded performance management at all levels within both councils.

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Performance management at Rochdale Borough Council

This case study explains how Rochdale Borough Council is working to develop an organisational culture that maximises the benefits of data and performance management.

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Performance management of council-led commercial activity

This review of lessons learned summarises the particular points to consider when looking at governance and performance management of commercial activity within councils.

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Peterborough City Council discovers new income streams

The focus of the programme was to look at ways to generate income from two internally conceived and developed digital solutions. 

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Physical activity

Welcome to our section on physical activity. Right here is where all the useful information on getting active, fit and taking part in exercise will appear.  

Physical Activity Referral Scheme (PARS)

The Active Westminster Physical Activity Referral Scheme (PARs) is delivered by Everyone Health in partnership with Westminster City Council’s leisure contractors Everyone Active, and was previously known as the Exercise Referral Scheme.

Pioneering changes to child protection services - Hertfordshire County Council

Family Safeguarding Teams are multi-agency teams that work with child protection and child in need cases. The Family Safeguarding project allows adult specialists and social workers to focus on direct, relationship-based therapeutic work.

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Pioneering Places

Pioneering Places was a partnership between cultural organisations and multiple councils across Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Ramsgate.

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Placemaking with poetry

Barnsley Museums adopted two unloved Listed red phone boxes in the town centre and transformed them into works of art telling stories of the town’s heritage with words by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

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