This podcast continues our series ‘Weathering the Storm’. The session is hosted by Nick Sinclair with special guests Jennie Cox and Joe Micheli from the Local Area Coordination team in York.

In this article Jennie Cox, Senior Coordinator in the Local Area Coordination team at the City of York Council, explores how being an asset-based area has helped organisations and communities across York to come together through the Coronavirus pandemic.

This new report draws upon published evaluation studies of Local Area Coordination, and explores the opportunities and challenges associated with implementing strength-, assets- and placed-based initiatives models within Local Authority social service settings.

We are pleased to launch our first full episode of our new podcast series ‘weathering the storm’. The session is hosted by Nick Sinclair and Clenton Farquharson with special guest Ralph Broad.

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.

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.

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.

The independent evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in Suffolk, compiled by the University of Essex, has now been published.

This evaluation took place in the early stages of operation of Local Area Coordination in Waltham Forest. It demonstrates that the Local Area Coordination approach in Waltham Forest “is successful at improving the quality of life and self efficacy of people who would otherwise remain vulnerable and disconnected from their community and neighbourhood resources and formal services.”

In partnership with the Local Area Coordination Network and Inclusive Neighbourhoods, Leeds Beckett University have produced a proposed theory for change around the sustainable strategies for Local Area Coordination programmes.

The IIDL Exchange took place at the end of May with the Local Area Coordination Network, Thurrock Council, and Inclusive Neighbourhoods running a session around Local Area Coordination in England and Wales with a focus on the transformation of services.