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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Project Orpheus: Building resilience to online extremism in Portsmouth

With external funding to support counter-extremism delivery decreasing, Portsmouth worked with international partners to devise and deliver work with young people to protect them from online harms and improve critical thinking skills in partnership with local and national third sector providers.

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Promoting council services using email

Seven Dorset councils set-up an email system to promote their online services on the joint website Dorsetforyou.com.

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Promoting good health

To help ensure good take-up of health checks in Suffolk, workshops are held for people with learning disabilities and their carers explaining what the annual checks involve and how people can get registered for them. They are run by a team of peer educators who are people with learning disabilities themselves who have been trained by Ace Anglia.

Promoting independence and resilience

Lancashire County Council used customer profiling tools to see who would benefit from low-level interventions.

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Promoting independence in older people

The London Borough of Hackney has delivered a major transformation programme to promote independence.

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Promoting walking opportunities to hard to reach groups

Walk Glasgow is aimed at those least likely to regularly exercise, to improve the health and wellbeing of city residents.

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Providing access to e-forms via smartphones at Cannock Chase and Stafford Borough Councils

The forms included e-payment functionality and integration to back-office systems.

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Providing an alternative to care home and supported housing

Lancashire County Council's Shared Lives scheme matches people with learning disabilities with families in the community so they can live in their home, becoming part of their family, developing independence and friendships, gaining confidence and new living skills.

Providing council tax support for young people out of authority

Council tax support was given to a young person placed out of authority in need of financial assistance. This had a positive impact and has since been rolled our further.

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Providing digital support for housing and homelessness

Kent Homechoice aimed to develop three new online, mobile friendly tools for housing applications and advice.

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