Members' area - New Local

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Telling your Story of Council and Place

Ideas and reflections on the challenges of: Developing a simple narrative that is owned by partners and communities, not just the council, and reflects the diversity of voices and...

19th May, 2022

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Narrative building • Place building • Strategy and leadership

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Freeing up the Frontline for Community Power

Ideas and reflections on embedding a more autonomous and permissive working culture; building greater resilience within the workforce; and creating a culture of co-production with local partners and communities....

2nd March, 2022

Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Culture • Participation and co-production • Partnerships

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The Climate Emergency: Mobilising your Residents

Ideas and reflections centred around three main challenges: Engaging the whole community on climate change. Telling an external story connecting local and global environmental issues. Ensuring climate change is a priority...

8th November, 2021

Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Members • Mobilisation • Strategy and leadership

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Community Deliberations: Practicalities for Positive Conversations

Ideas and reflections centred around three main challenges: building trust with communities; creating an organisational culture that values and enables community deliberation; and ensuring that councils are engaging with and...

1st September, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Democracy

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Making the Most of International Relationships

Councils share their lessons learned from partnerships with Europe, Miami-Dade County in Florida, and with a charity in Sierra Leone.

22nd July, 2021

Partnerships • Strategy and leadership

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How to Run a Successful Commission

Six key factors to consider when setting up a commission that will help you maximise impact.

22nd June, 2021

Commissioning and Procurement • Democracy • Devolution and reorganisation • Political Economy • Strategy and leadership

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The Climate Emergency: Mobilising your Council

Balancing short-term and long-term political and financial pressures with the imperative to respond meaningfully to the climate emergency.

25th May, 2021

Budgeting • Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Finance • Members • Mobilisation • Strategy and leadership

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Putting Community Power into Practice

Pivoting from the short-term emergency response to Covid-19 towards long-term organic community development.

24th February, 2021

Community Power • Culture • Democracy • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Working with Central Government

How to build relationships with Whitehall and present persuasive evidence to civil servants.

22nd February, 2021

Central government • Community Power • Local government • Members • Partnerships

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Organising for Change

Avoiding a drift back to old norms and ways of working, addressing exclusion and preserving accountability.

15th February, 2021

Community Power • Culture • Local government • Local government reform • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Establishing a New Working Relationship with Partners

New Local partnered with Social Finance for an innovation exchange on establishing a new working relationship with partners.

20th January, 2021

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Members • Partnerships

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Better Jobs for People Locally

Creating partnerships to maximise impact on jobs, and how to match skills to opportunities.

8th December, 2020

Community Power • Economy and business • Education and skills • Employment • Members • Partnerships • Skills

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Leading Partnerships to Transform Place

How to create a sense of shared purpose and navigate each partner's different objectives and cultures.

9th November, 2020

Community Power • Culture • Members • Narrative building • Partnerships • Place building

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Making the Member-Officer Relationship Work

How to build a shared agenda and tackle big decisions with elected members.

22nd September, 2020

Community Power • Digital • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Mobilising communities through deliberative practices

Experiences of engaging communities - both successes and initiatives that didn't work as well as hoped.

15th June, 2020

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Democracy • Members

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Measuring Impact and Improving Performance in Complex Systems

How to identify what to measure and get buy-in for assessing impact.

30th April, 2020

Community Power • Culture • Impact • Innovation • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Using Behavioural Insights to Manage Demand

Exploring how to manage demand using insights from behavioural science.

13th December, 2019

Behavioural Insights • Community Power • Impact • Innovation Insights • Members • Strategy and leadership

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The Environmental Challenge

How to overcome common challenges and think strategically when implementing climate change policy.

4th December, 2019

Climate change • Community engagement • Community Power • Innovation Insights • Members • Narrative building • Strategy and leadership

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Transforming Organisational Culture

Insights of changing organisational cultures in councils from chief executives.

29th November, 2019

Culture • Innovation • Innovation Insights • Leadership • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Testing Ideas through Prototyping

Exploring the importance of prototyping in developing an innovation.

28th November, 2019

Community Power • Design • Impact • Innovation • Innovation In-depth • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Design for Social Outcomes

How does the design of the places we live, work and play shape our health and sense of belonging?

29th October, 2019

Community Power • Design • Housing • Impact • Innovation In-depth • Members • Place building • Transport

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Demand Management

Looking at data, culture, and other challenges to adopting preventative approaches.

20th September, 2019

Community engagement • Community Power • Culture • Data • Members • Partnerships

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Budgeting for Impact

A summary of the main ideas and lessons that emerged from the day’s discussions

20th September, 2019

Budgeting • Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Impact • Local government finance • Members

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Tackling Loneliness

Exploring how councils are working to tackle loneliness.

14th March, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Innovation In-depth • Members • Mental health • Wellbeing

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Health and Social Care Integration

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Health and social care • Local government • Members • Partnerships

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Productive Growth

Insight into how to upskill the workforce in your area and building effective partnerships with the business community.

20th January, 2019

Community Power • Economy and business • Education and skills • Members • Partnerships • Skills

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Social Investment Partnerships

Exploring the development of partnerships between local authorities and social investors.

18th December, 2018

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members • Social investment • Third sector and civil society

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Transforming the Relationship Between Councils and Communities

Developing deeper relationships with your residents and moving from a transactional relationship to a collaborative one.

20th October, 2018

Community engagement • Community Power • Community Voices • Democracy • Members • Participation and co-production

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Options for Housing Delivery Vehicles

Exploring the pros and cons of joint ventures, wholly-owned housing delivery companies and council-led delivery.

29th July, 2018

Community Power • Housing • Innovation In-depth • Members • Partnerships

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How can councils adopt digital transformation

Starting with problems, not software and focusing on users’ needs to make the most of new digital tools.

20th June, 2018

Community Power • Digital • Local government reform • Members • Strategy and leadership

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How to use data to guide decision-making

Insight into how to get the right team in place to explore the possibilities of data.

20th March, 2018

Community Power • Data • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Measuring Social Value

Exploring how councils are measuring social value and the impact this can have on procurement processes.

29th January, 2018

Budgeting • Commissioning and Procurement • Community Power • Impact • Innovation In-depth • Members • SMEs • Social investment

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Inclusive Growth in Practice

Exploring how councils are approaching inclusive growth in practice.

29th November, 2017

Community Power • Inclusive Growth • Innovation In-depth • Members • Place building

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Encouraging Behaviour Change

Exploring how councils can make use of behavioural insights.

20th October, 2017

Behavioural Insights • Childrens' Services • Community Power • Innovation In-depth • Members • Transport

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How can local authorities most effectively operate commercially?

Guide to setting up effective governance of commercialisation projects to reduce risks and enable growth.

20th October, 2017

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members

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How can we lead the next stage of local government transformation?

Exploring different methods to frame and implement your transformation programme.

20th August, 2017

Community Power • Leadership • Local government reform • Members • Strategy and leadership

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Establishing a Trading Company

Key questions to ask when thinking about a trading company model, including and case studies of successful examples.

20th July, 2017

Community Power • Finance • Local government finance • Members

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Themes

Telling your Story of Council and Place

Freeing up the Frontline for Community Power

The Climate Emergency: Mobilising your Residents

Community Deliberations: Practicalities for Positive Conversations

Making the Most of International Relationships

How to Run a Successful Commission

The Climate Emergency: Mobilising your Council

Putting Community Power into Practice

Working with Central Government

Organising for Change

Establishing a New Working Relationship with Partners

Better Jobs for People Locally

Leading Partnerships to Transform Place

Making the Member-Officer Relationship Work

Mobilising communities through deliberative practices

Measuring Impact and Improving Performance in Complex Systems

Using Behavioural Insights to Manage Demand

The Environmental Challenge

Transforming Organisational Culture

Testing Ideas through Prototyping

Design for Social Outcomes

Demand Management

Budgeting for Impact

Tackling Loneliness

Health and Social Care Integration

Productive Growth

Social Investment Partnerships

Transforming the Relationship Between Councils and Communities

Options for Housing Delivery Vehicles

How can councils adopt digital transformation

How to use data to guide decision-making

Measuring Social Value

Inclusive Growth in Practice

Encouraging Behaviour Change

How can local authorities most effectively operate commercially?

How can we lead the next stage of local government transformation?

Establishing a Trading Company

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