2nd November, 2018 / CCIN
iSandwell is a community development program that mixes frontline facing citizen engagement with smart city thinking to improve the use of digital in the region to alleviate social issues. Sandwell Council work closely with the community and voluntary sector to develop innovative training and support over a range of activities. Read about these activities: Digital – ...
3rd April, 2018 / CCIN
Fuel poverty – living on a lower income in a home which cannot be kept warm at a reasonable cost – is a big issue for local government. According to the Annual Fuel Poverty Statistics Report 2017 (2015 ONS Data) currently, over 2.5 million households have to choose between heating their house and other essential ...
3rd April, 2018 / CCIN
For effective services, a better relationship is needed between people who deliver and use services. Organisations are looking towards citizens having an active role in design and delivery (co-production). There are ‘pockets’ of examples of lived experience/decision maker relationships across Greater Manchester. However, talk of better relationships has not yet ‘tipped over’ into widespread action, ...
28th March, 2018 / CCIN
The Thriving Communities (TC) programme is the bedrock of the Oldham Cares programme and central to the Oldham Model contained in the Oldham Plan. It focuses on creating the conditions for sustainable prevention, social action and change which are pre-requisites of achieving the overarching outcomes of the wider programme. It will do this through developing ...
27th March, 2018 / CCIN
Overview Those commissioning public services are increasingly being expected to oversee rapid large-scale local change that achieve financial savings, but also to make services more accessible, personalised and focused on prevention. In Lambeth they have seized the opportunity to transform the mental health care system. By creating a radical new commissioning model and set of ...
26th March, 2018 / CCIN
The Motiv8 Challenge was developed to tackle Anti-Social behaviour being carried out by young people with the aim of improving our communities, tackling youth unemployment and raising the aspirations of young people in Sandwell. The project is specifically aimed at young people in Sandwell who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) that may ...
26th June, 2017 / CCIN
Local charities who work with Stevenage Borough Council were concerned that many older people do not ask for help when they first need it but instead wait until they are having a crisis. This can mean they end up having a lengthy stay in hospital which could have been avoided. The council worked with them ...
26th June, 2017 / CCIN
Since the Mental Health Works event held at the Park Inn in April of 2016, what originally started out as a small working group of key stakeholders has become a major networking group for the Borough of Telford and Wrekin with the mental wellbeing of the local population as its primary focus. Telford Mental Health ...
26th June, 2017 / CCIN
The city is the only one in the UK to offer an annual affordable warmth dividend to all vulnerable elderly people over the age of 80 – £100 every winter since the new Administration was elected in 2011. The Council also delivers a major domestic energy efficiency programme, levering in national and local funding sources ...
24th February, 2016 / CCIN
Former prisoners who have successfully beaten drugs and alcohol are to be trained as coaches to help whole families tackle addiction together in Salford. Salford City Council has won £100,000 in government funding to train up to 30 ‘family recovery coaches’ to help addicts break the habit and stop their children going on to misuse ...
