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  • Lessons Learned From Five Years of Failure
    A blog on how innovation doesn’t need to be cutting edge. Rather it needs to be simple, useful and to make someone’s day that little bit easier.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  27 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Blog
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  • Income Generation For Local Authorities
    There are a range of ways in which local authorities can use their legal powers to generate income. Three ways with significant potential to bring in incoming are charging for discretionary...
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    By:  Kaylash Patel |
    Last updated:  23 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Blog
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  • Westminster City Council – Development of a new digital platform and services for Adult Social Care
    How a new Adult Social Care digital platform can help to improve service delivery and efficiency and deliver better outcomes for service users.
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    By:  Kaylash Patel |
    Last updated:  19 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • Wokingham Borough Council - implementation of a new operating model
    This document provides the ‘blueprint’ for the delivery of the Future Operating Model (FOM) for Wokingham Borough Council (WBC). It includes a refined business case, an...
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    By:  Former Member |
    Last updated:  18 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • Troubled Families Programme
    The Troubled Families Programme helps thousands of families across England to get the help they need to address multiple, complex problems.
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    By:  Kaylash Patel |
    Last updated:  11 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Blog
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  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council use of Building Information Modelling
    East Riding of Yorkshire Council has developed in Bridlington one of the best leisure facilities in the country. Using Building Information Modelling (BIM), the project team has successfully...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  09 Dec 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • Identifying the health care system benefits of housing with care
    The Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN) and Southampton City Council have published the results of a study that highlights the health care system benefits of housing with care.
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Report
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  • How to Develop a Community-Led Approach to Age Friendly Housing in Central Bedfordshire
    This guide by the Housing LIN (Housing Learning and Improvement Network) sets out action that will assist communities in Central Bedfordshire to take the next steps in implementing plans to...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Report
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  • Lessons learned in housing an ageing population
    A report by the Housing LIN ( Housing Learning and Improvement Network)  ...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Report
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  • Successful stakeholder management
    A booklet guide on successful stakeholder management produced from the LGA's Digital Channel Shift Programme
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    By:  Olivia Lancaster |
    Last updated:  18 Nov 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • User research and testing
    A booklet guide on user research and testing produced from the LGA's Digital Channel Shift Programme
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    By:  Olivia Lancaster |
    Last updated:  18 Nov 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • Running a successful project
    A booklet on how to run a successful project produced from the LGA's Digital Channel Shift Programme
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    By:  Olivia Lancaster |
    Last updated:  18 Nov 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • Benefits of using an agile approach
    A booklet guide outlining the benefits of using an agile approach produced from the LGA's Digital Channel Shift Programme
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    By:  Olivia Lancaster |
    Last updated:  18 Nov 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • Pembrokeshire - kerb-side recycling scheme
    Pembrokeshire County Council launched a new, novel kerbside recycling scheme in Autumn 2019.  This Youtube video is a light-hearted communications channel for its residents and is an innovative...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  07 Nov 2019 |
    Type:  Other
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  • Realising the potential of early intervention
    This major report sets out a bold plan of action to ensure effective early intervention is available to the children, young people and families who need it most.
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    By:  Kaylash Patel |
    Last updated:  29 Oct 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • LGA / ODI eLearning modules on better use of data and open data
    The Local Government Association and the Open Data Institute worked in partnership in 2017/8 to develop a series of six online, free eLearning modules aimed at helping to inform users on the...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Training
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  • NHS Secondary use of data governance tool
    This tool consists of six steps that help care systems to establish robust data governance for integrated care. These steps can be undertaken sequentially to provide an end-to-end solution, or...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Tool
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  • LG Inform
    A data tool maintained by the LGA that brings together more than 5,000 pieces of up-to-date performance, financial, demographic and other data about a council and its area, and presents it in...
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Tool
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  • Helping Staff to Embrace Change
    A blog about how to help staff internalise and embrace change, through empowering advocates and champions.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  25 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Blog
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  • Transformation as a Journey
    A blog about how to demonstrate the leadership that is needed to drive change internally.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  25 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Blog
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  • 20 Tools for Innovating in Government
    This handbook from NESTA offers 20 tools proven to help innovation flourish inside government, based on their work for over more than a decade
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  18 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Tool
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  • Shifting power, supporting communities and reshaping public services
    These five case studies from Nesta, are written by local authority innovators working with citizens to reshape public services.
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  16 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • Transforming Outcomes for People, Places and Public Services
    An article about a new community-based multi-agency approach that is demonstrating it can transform outcomes for people in Oldham and as a result is also generating savings for the public purse.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • Developing a New Model for Delivering Children's Social Care
    A case study of how Leicestershire County Council developed a care placement strategy to help them improve the process for managing children in the care system, which involved working with an...
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • Transformation in Rotherham
    An article by Ian Thomas, former Director of Children and Young People's Services at Rotherham Borough Council, on his experience of transforming children's services.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • What is Real Transformation and How do you Make it Happen?
    A think piece on how transformation was delivered in Wigan Council, by Donna Hall, chief executive.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  05 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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...
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    By:  Kaylash Patel |
    Last updated:  03 Sep 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  21 Aug 2019 |
    Type:  Other
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  • 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 ...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  13 Aug 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  07 Aug 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  09 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Tool
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  • 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 ...
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    By:  thumbnail Rebekah Wilson |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  03 Feb 2022 |
    Type:  Tool
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  • 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 -...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  02 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  02 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • A citizen-led approach to health and care: lessons from the Wigan Deal - The King's Fund
    Over a period of six years, public services in Wigan have been through a major process of transformation, based on the idea of building a different relationship with local people. The new...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • 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 ...
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    By:  thumbnail Michelle Pickford |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Case study
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  • LG Inform – Headline Report
    This report compares data about your authority for a range of services to that of other similar authorities. It allows you to examine your authority’s...
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    By:  thumbnail Juliet Whitworth |
    Last updated:  15 Jun 2022 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Other
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Other
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  • 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 ...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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.
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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  • Gender pay gap analysis (LGA)
    Data, information and discussion on the gender pay gap in local government.
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Report
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  • 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...
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    By:  thumbnail Tim Adams |
    Last updated:  01 Jul 2019 |
    Type:  Guide
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