Innovate08: The winning entries
Over the past decade the real success story in local government has been its rapid service improvement.
Councils are now entering stage two of that journey with reform, efficiency and innovation inextricably linked.
Innovate08 was launched with partners Microsoft to capture and showcase the entrepreneurial talent that has helped shape local government today and will drive it into the future. We called for new ideas to help solve social, economic and environmental challenges that had the potential to be developed and shared with the rest of local government. And we tested those ideas in a dragon’s den-style presentation day.
This supplement is the next step in sharing these ideas with our readers in the hope that they will inspire and stimulate yet more innovation.
Some of the solutions are simple yet incredibly effective, while others use technology to tackle wider issues of engagement and worklessness.
The winning idea from Kent CC stemmed from its own year of innovation and draws together a number of key policy themes from engagement to empowerment. As the team put it ‘we want to open people’s eyes to information and services and we recognise that individuals are the experts in their own lives’.
For LGC, innovation remains one of our key themes and we hope that Innovate08 is just one of the ways we can help to share new ideas and stimulate debate on how to improve services.
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