Interesting links weekending 2025-06-08
Interesting links I’ve found
For my reference really but you’re welcome to share
Developing community power standards with Manchester City Council - Interesting and probably standards are helpful but I’d like to see more on the impact
Talking of outcomes TPXImpact re-upped this post from GDS about service outcomes always worth refering to
Talking of outcomes (again) they feature large in Nesta’s test and learn playbook disappointingly this is addressed to UK gov so it may not be too much use in the foothills of localgov
Talking of Test and Learn, nod along to James Plunkett’s Neighbourhoods as engines of change
Principles for services organisations (sort of a maturity assessment) is worth a bookmark
A gonorrhoea vaccine will soon be available in the UK - vaccines are cool
I went to an LGA webinar on financial inclusion and came away with some interesting links including:
A case study of the financial benefits of a credit union’s homeless prevention scheme
Can local No Interest Loan Schemes help low-income households to weather financial bumps in the road? A case study from County Durham
Can we make it safe for kids to play in the streets?
With the exception of London, deprived settlements in England tend to have fewer, smaller and further-away playgrounds. Really interesting. I wonder how this maps onto rural areas where many children may live very far from playgrounds.
This is interesting and I’m going to have to think about it some more to understand it Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care
Another card game for dataviz training (not saying that’s a bad thing)
A webinar on Using Connected Vehicle Data to Gain Enhanced Insights into Road Network Performance <- Interesting though I’m not sure that data is the constraint so much as money to fix potholes on the network
