Local Area Coordinators are on hand to help people build bridges between groups, identify funding, establish and sustain new groups, and support people to use their voice in order to co-design public services, as demonstrated by this example from the London Borough of Haringey.

In our recent report, ‘It’s Time for Local Area Coordination’, Neil Woodhead (Derby City Council’s Social Capital Development Manager) shared his insights from the last seven years of leading Local Area Coordination in Derby.  In this excerpt, Neil outlines the crucial role that relationships play in making Local Area Coordination work.

July ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.

We’re excited to launch our new report ‘It’s Time for Local Area Coordination’. The report outlines what Local Area Coordination is and how it offers huge and long lasting positive impacts on individuals, communities and public sector bodies.

In this blog for co-production week, Nick Sinclair explores how Local Area Coordination is a great way to drive forward the principles of co-production, focusing on community involvement in the recruitment of Local Area Coordinators across our Network.

The formative evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in Haringey has now been published by Leeds Beckett University. The evaluation reviews the Haringey programme to date following the initial set up in late 2017.

June ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.

In March of this year, it was a real privilege to welcome a group of leaders from Singapore to visit some Local Area Coordination areas in Wales and England and to share both our learning, outcomes and contribution to reform of Local Area Coordination.

May ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.

April ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.

The summative evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in York, compiled by the University of York, has now been published. The evaluation reviews data collected along with interviews with people who have made use of Local Area Coordination, community members, and Local Area Coordinators.

March ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.