Resources - Transformation and Innovation Exchange
Case Study: West Suffolk Council solar farm and rental income
West Suffolk Council has invested in the renewable energy market and
commercial rent, which has had a secondary benefit of protecting jobs
and business interest in the local area.
Published 05 September 2019
Happy Ever After or Till Death Us Do Part?
A think piece on leadership and technology, by Max Wide of the
Connected Places Catapult, that helps understand the role of
technology as a tool for change (rather than being the change in itself..
Published 05 September 2019
Commissioning as an Approach to Transformation
A think piece on the role of commissioning in transformation, by
Benjamin Taylor and Garath Symonds from the Public Sector
Transformation Academy.
Published 05 September 2019
BEACON COUNCIL RESEARCH REPORT - CRIME REDUCTION IN RURAL AREAS
This paper outlines the key trends in rural crime and suggests a
framework for action to reduce crime in rural areas. It highlights the
difficulties inherent in developing rural solutions and off..
Published 03 September 2019
West Suffolk Council solar farm generates an income of £1.5 million, £100,000 more than expected.
A discussion on Twitter about West Suffolk's solar farm. It saw an
income of £1.5 million coming substantially from a combination of
selling electricity to the grid and income from Renewable Obli..
By
Tim Adams
Published 21 August 2019
The key enablers of developing an effective partnership-based early help offer
This research explores the enablers of and barriers to developing and
sustaining an effective local early help offer. The
findings are based on in-depth engagement with eight local areas
w..
Published 13 August 2019
Case Study Eastleigh Borough Council: Purchasing Property Assets
Case study describing activity that Eastleigh Borough Council
have undertaken to pursue the purchase of a range of property assets
which generate a high investment yield.
Published 07 August 2019
Skills and behaviours to fuel innovation in government - NESTA
Around
the world, governments are investing in innovation skills for public
servants. This NESTA toolkit
explores the kinds of behaviours we need
to see in order to succe..
Published 09 July 2019
Data Visualisation in Children’s Social Care
Report by Coram exploring
the potential of data visualisation to improve decision-making
and performance in children’s social care. A prototype was
..
Published 08 July 2019
Enhancing productivity through employee support (LGA)
A support package from the LGA to improve workforce productivity by
helping them to assess their approaches to performance management and
employee engagement. Offering advice and guidance to hel..
By
Tim Adams
Published 02 July 2019
Ideas to re-recruit social workers (LGA)
Many social workers have left their profession. For some it has been
a while since they left. Whatever the reasons for their departure -
perhaps a career break, caring for a family member - the..
By
Tim Adams
Published 02 July 2019
Workforce Focus (LGA)
The primary aim of this document is to help senior HR professionals
and their teams to develop local action plans for workforce
improvement by providing facts and ideas.
By
Tim Adams
Published 02 July 2019
Epsom and Ewell Borough Council - Income generation and enterprise plan
The
primary aim was to create a strategy that would enable Epsom and
Ewell Borough Council to have an improved approach to commercialism
in services it currently provides. This would ..
Published 01 July 2019
Melton Borough Council - Timesage
Timesage
is a commercial brand for Melton Borough Council. The initial aim
was to develop a pilot with a view to providing chargeable services
to local people using a monthly subscrip..
Published 01 July 2019
Eastbourne Borough Council - CloudConnx
Case study about Eastbourne's CloudConnx - creating affordable
broadband for businesses.
By
Liz Copeland
Published 01 July 2019
Tackling multiple unhealthy risk factors - emerging lessons from practice - (The King's Fund)
This paper sets out the experience, learning and
practice of eight areas (six local authority services and two NHS
services) that are designing services to support their populations to
change u..
Published 01 July 2019
Innovate to save case studies (NESTA)
Innovate to Save was launched in 2017 and took eight
projects through research and development to test their ideas for
improving public services and generating cashable savings. These
..
Published 01 July 2019
Commercialisation: best practice map (LGA)
An online map maintained by the LGA showing councils in England that
are engaged in commercial activities – the data behind the map is
updated on a rolling basis.
The examples on the map are br..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
LGA Consultancy: workforce
The LGA has developed its thinking on workforce around five strategic
themes: organisational development, pay and reward, recruitment and
retention, skills development, leadership development.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Wealden District Council - reducing residents energy bills
Case study about Wealden's partnership with iChoosr to help reduce
residents' energy bills.
By
Liz Copeland
Published 01 July 2019
The 21st Century Public Servant - experiences of individuals working in councils and the wider public sector (LGA)
The Local Government Association (LGA), Society of Local Authority
Chief Executives (SOLACE) and Public Sector People Managers'
Association (PPMA) have been working together with our academic
p..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Disability confidence - equalities and inclusion
The LGA recognises the value and importance of equalities and
inclusion, not only as a legal obligation for employers, but as a way
of attracting, developing and retaining talent. The Disability
..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Apprenticeship support programme (LGA)
LGA provided support to councils so they can maximise the Return on
Investment (ROI) of their apprenticeship levy.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Wellbeing and inclusion support (LGA)
Wellbeing and inclusion are essential for a happy, high performing
and productive workforce. These web resources from the LGA cover
building strong, sustainable, people-oriented organisations.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Wellbeing and resilience at work resources (LGA)
Promoting emotional resilience and wellbeing improves the health of
an organisation as well as that of its employees. This podcast from
the LGA highlights some of the different models and ways of..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Gender pay gap analysis (LGA)
Data, information and discussion on the gender pay gap in local government.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Managers' guides to flexible working (LGA)
These online documents from the LGA explain why hiring flexibly can
be beneficial to councils and how to go about it.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Workforce and human resources support (LGA)
LGA resources to work with councils and their partners to help create
a workforce able to respond to major changes within the public sector.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Council for Disabled Children (CDC) - Case Law Directory
Council for Disabled Children, community focused case study for legal
issues relating to disabled children and young people
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Barking and Dagenham video - we make our city
Barking and Dagenham, community focused case study, video about
working within the community (not guaranteed to work in Internet
Explorer browser)
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Social Care Future blog
Glimpses of the future: How do areas shift from marginal change to
serious re-design around what really matters to people and
communities? Discussions and breifings via blogs from a variety of
..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Scottish Local Government Benchmarking Framework on the Knowledge Hub
Knowledge Hub group whose purpose is to collaboratively develop a
comparative benchmarking framework for Scottish Local Government that
supports the targeting of transformational/change resources..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Care and health toolkits and support (LGA)
Collected care and health toolkits, support and resources from the LGA
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Health and wellbeing research and shared learning at the LGA
Support, research and shared learning on health and wellbeing from LGA
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
European Union Digital Public Services Scoreboard
Reports and analysis on the trends of ICT-enabled benefits for public
services in European member states
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI)
An index on Europe’s digital performance, tracking the evolution of
EU member states in digital competitiveness
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
TED talk - the 'Golden Circle' by Simon Sinek
TED is an initiative where Technology, Entertainment and Design
converged and today covers almost all topics. This is a YouTube video
of a talk by Simon Sinek which looks into the belief and val..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Decision-making and accountability toolkit (LGA)
The DMA approach is an organisational design tool from the LGA and
partners which establishes the number of layers of management that an
organisation needs – and the units within it – to achieve ..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
The Trafford Data Lab
The Trafford Data Lab supports decision-making in Trafford, Greater
Manchester, by revealing patterns in data through visualisation. Many
data sources and free applications to support transformat..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
LGA resources in support of transformation
As councils seek to meet the financial challenge, many are embarking
on significant transformation programmes. The approaches taken are
many and varied, and there is no one ‘right way' to do it. ..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
National Procurement Strategy 2018 - toolkit (LGA)
This toolkit has been developed by the LGA and partners to support
delivery of the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government in
England 2018.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Checking up on the power of prevention in social care in Hertfordshire
Article published in The Municipal Journal, April 2019, by Jim
McManus, Director for Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council
about the council's experience of prevention in health and social ..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Highway maintenance efficiency programme (HMEP) evaluation report 7 Aug 2018
The Strategic Review is part of the Highways Maintenance and
Efficiency Programme offer to support sector-led improvement. It is a
peer-led review of a council’s performance to help identify rad..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
The Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP): Supporting Innovation and Transformation (LGA)
The Care and Health Improvement Programme (CHIP) provides support
for social care, integration and health as well as supporting the
transforming care programme for people with learning disabiliti..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Transformation Programme Cabinet Report - Harrogate June 2018
Harrogate Council report to Cabinet, June 2018, on its transformation
programme. An exemplar way of undertaking and monitoring transformation..
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Corporate peer review in Gloucestershire 2018 - final position statement
Gloucestershire County Council corporate peer challenge report 2018
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Corporate peer review in West Oxfordshire 2018 - final position statement
West Oxfordshire District Council corporate peer challenge report 2018
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Deep dive service review methodology in Cumbria 2018
Cumbria County Council service review and deep dive methodology and toolkit
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019
Treasury Thoughts on Efficiency
Key questions on improving productivity in government from the
Treasury. Drivers of productivity. Informal record of conversations.
By
Tim Adams
Published 01 July 2019