11th March, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
Bristol City Council is working in partnership with Locality and Power to Change on the re-design of its homecare model. Keep it Local Network This work is part of the Keep it Local campaign, for councils moving away from bureaucratic commissioning and big outsourcing contracts. Instead they are unlocking the power of community: building strong ...
9th March, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
Collaborative partnership is at the heart of our approach to transforming the health and social care system in Telford and Wrekin. The dynamic Integrated Place Partnership programme works together to improve outcomes for local people by adopting a strengths based approach – focussing upon offering early help, targeted prevention and a joined up response at ...
5th March, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
Peopletoo were engaged to co-design a multi-agency approach to ensure the delivery of effective, cohesive Early Support Services to meet the needs of children, young people and families across the diverse communities of Kirklees. Following a review of Early Support Services, Peopletoo were commissioned to implement the recommendations of the programme. The key focus was ...
4th February, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
We are changing the way we help young people aged 12-17 in care and on the edge of care. Too many Salford young people in care are placed in children’s homes outside the city, meaning they have to change schools, move away from their friends and family and don’t always get the support they need. ...
22nd August, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
We were asked to engage with a wide range of people using a story-telling approach to identify the key priorities for the new Adults Alliance Health and Wellbeing strategy over the next 5 years and begin to define a new relationship/nature of engagement between organisations and communities. Read more: Health and Social Care in Dudley ...
19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
Generations are coming together across the Royal Borough of Greenwich with a series of activities bringing nursery children together with elderly residents. The benefits of intergenerational activities, such as reducing social isolation and fostering community links, have been known for quite a while now. The Council’s Early Years’ service has brought together a number of ...
3rd April, 2018 / Nicola, 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 ...
26th March, 2018 / Nicola, 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 / Nicola, 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 / Nicola, 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 / Nicola, 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 / Nicola, 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 ...
2nd October, 2015 / Nicola, CCIN
The City of Edinburgh Council is innovating to support a range of common interest groups such as co-operative societies and social enterprises to establish themselves across the City. These common interest groups involve a wide range of people from academics to elected members and from private sector investors to local people to co-produce of services ...
6th June, 2014 / Nicola, CCIN
Background Increasing financial inclusion is a council priority and a financial inclusion strategy was adopted by Cabinet in 2009 to shape this work. The purpose of the strategy was that: Norwich City Council will work with key organisations from the public, private and third sectors to ensure that all residents in Norwich have the resources ...
19th May, 2014 / Nicola, CCIN
Oldham Council is seeking to drive up standards in home care by taking a leadership role in shaping the way services are designed, delivered and accessed. Why do we need ethical care? Increasingly more frail elderly people live at home, and need high levels of good quality personal care to help them continue to lead ...
19th May, 2014 / Nicola, CCIN
Oldham Council has created a sustainable source of funding to help drive social action and community initiatives in the borough. What is the COF? The Co-operative Oldham Fund (COF) works to grow local voluntary, community and faith organisations across the Borough, providing grants to help deliver innovative community initiatives that generate lasting and sustainable benefits for ...
