Case studies

With health and fitness a priority for all firefighters, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service wanted to find a way to support their employees to live healthier lives. Corporate communications manager Alex Mills explains how they achieved their objective.

In January 2015, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council went out to tender for the school nursing service and didn't receive any bidders. Between January and March, they did an options paper and Cabinet decided in March 2015 to transfer the service in-house and propose that they should subsequently explore also bringing health visiting in-house.

Herefordshire Council worked to support Leominster community to develop responses for people engaged with adult social care and families facing crisis.

Colchester Borough Council has utilised its own CCTV network to deploy a fibre broadband network across its city centre for less than 10% of the cost of installing it from scratch.

The Event Organisers Forum gave event and festival organisers the opportunity to hear first-hand the details of running a successful and safe event.

A case study on the support provided by the London Borough of Hillingdon to support children with SEND, and their families, to ensure positive outcomes.

Suffolk’s library service is provided by an industrial and provident society, with Suffolk County Council’s role as expert commissioner.

West Sussex Music Trust, the county’s music education hub, is a not-for-profit company with charitable status.

The Arcadia Library and Leisure Centre opened in February 2016 – a new-build, combined facility in Levenshulme, which cost £9.1 million.

In 2013, Bradford Libraries commissioned a review of its library service. This was a major piece of work and involved considerable consultation with library users and non-users and other stakeholders.