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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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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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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Liverpool: Making it easier to access PrEP

Liverpool’s sexual health service provider Axess has improved access by setting up a PrEP Express service from its three sexual health clinics.

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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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Buckinghamshire: Creating smokefree sidelines and parks

Buckinghamshire Council launched Smokefree Sidelines in 2022. The campaign encourages local football clubs to not allow smoking or vaping at youth matches.

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Newham: Targeting manual workers and people with long-term conditions

Quit Well Newham was launched in January 2021. It provides quit aids such as nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes alongside expert support from a stop smoking adviser

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North East Lincolnshire: Equipping children with the skills to say no

The INTENT programme was developed by team of psychologists at the University of Leeds and its use is now being supported by the social enterprise Evidence to Impact.

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