Best Practice

  • Embedding wellbeing in Northern Ireland

    By Lauren Pennycook | November 28, 2018

    Carnegie UK Trust is working with three community planning partnerships to help them address the challenges they face in collecting, analysing and incorporating the data needed to develop a wellbeing framework. Lauren Pennycook outlines the aims.

  • We’re delivering a digital Dorset

    By Penny Mell | November 28, 2018

    As Dorset Councils Partnership transitions into one new council, Penny Mell shows how the combined workforce organisation has focused on digital skills development with the aim of creating a digitally inclusive culture

  • Reinvigorating local democracy

    By Will Godfrey | November 7, 2018

    A conference in Newport this week looked at the future of democracy. Will Godfrey emphasises the city’s ‘proud history of making its voice heard’ and says the role and influence of local government is now more important than ever

  • Outcome-focused alliances should be the only show in town

    By Steve Kay | November 6, 2018

    Steve Kay says the challenges we face are never simply down to money alone - and in North East Lincolnshire Council 'where we are successful it is because we have put outcomes for children and families at the very heart of what we are doing'.

 
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