Tag: Prevention

Graham Beamish and Marie Pye explain how Suffolk and Norfolk County Councils have saved 1000 years’ worth of care days for children and young people.

As the Government’s agenda for local government, devolution and public services takes shape, a ‘new local’ is emerging, built on the principles of power, prevention and place.

Using outcomes-focused relational working to reduce demand on statutory services can be difficult, but it has the potential to help local authorities effectively deliver preventative interventions.

This member-exclusive Innovation Explored explores long term investment in prevention and working in different ways in partnership across local systems of public services and voluntary sector organisations

Making the case for preventative services can be difficult, so it is vital that interventions can evidence their efficacy. Bridges Outcomes Partnerships have been working as part of the changing systems in children’s services in Norfolk and Suffolk where,...

Colleagues throughout local government are still stuck between the rock of shrinking resources and the hard place of rising demand in many (if not all) service areas. The effect of the cost of living crisis is creating increased volatility...

New Local is partnering with UCL's IPPO on a research project focused on the severe fiscal constraint faced by local authorities.