Just a word or two on the exciting challenges we are getting involved with in the Local Authority Sector. While the jobs are not huge the challenges certainly are.
- At one authority we are helping the council understand why their “Social Cohesion” scores are going backwards. This will involve workshops in schools and in the community.
- We will be training a Local Authority senior team in innovation, but the challenge we will be using to do this is “Motivating the Estate” and coming up with creative ideas for dealing with the poverty of aspiration and opportunity experienced by NEETS living on a deprived council estate.
- At another we are dealing with “Social Inequality” and helping shape the themes that will be addressed in the corporate plan.
- We are helping one Local Authority with “Economic Prosperity and Adult Skills” and helping develop the key themes that will help address an economically depressed borough with high levels of social problems.
These are really exciting challenges and ones that will help us demonstrate that the approach works in the most challenging of circumstances.
