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

The members’ conference took place on 4th-5th November in Derby. We’ve put together video highlights of the event and speaker slots which offer useful insights about Local Area Coordination to those in the wider sector.

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

Jennie Cox (Senior Local Area Coordinator in York) and Christine Marmion (Project Manager of Ways to Wellbeing: the social prescribing service in the city) came together to address ‘the signposting question’ which they found their teams were frequently encountering.

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

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

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.