Case studies: Real-life examples of government activity

A maths teacher and his school have made flexible working a success at a secondary school in Croydon.

This case study looks at the benefits of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner's secure by default self-certification.

The owners of this Buckingham hair salon tell us why they decided to register as a limited liability partnership (LLP), and why a strong family feel is important for their business.

Milan provides an insight into his training contract within the Competition and Markets Authority

Find out how Hackney Council moved services to the internet and lessons learned from the migration.

Primary Authority partnership with Monmouthshire County Council helps SA Brain & Co develop a more effective Food Safety Management System.

Primary Authority partnership with Glasgow City Council ensures Arnold Clark operates in a consistent and compliant manner in its Trading Standards matters.

Primary Authority partnership with Wakefield Council helps Acorn Mobility Services keep its regulatory compliance costs to a minimum.

Halton Borough Council developed a draft whole systems action plan as part of phase 4 of the whole systems approach to obesity.

Lewisham Council agreed an action plan and evaluation as part of phases 5 and 6 of the whole systems approach to obesity.

Suffolk County Council secured senior leaders' support and set up a core working team as part of phase 1 of the whole systems approach to obesity.

East Herts Council District Authority created a system mapping workshop as part of phase 3 of the whole systems approach to obesity.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough collated local information about obesity and current actions as part of phase 2 of the whole-systems approach to obesity.

Londoners can now access sexual health testing online, through the new Sexual Health London (SHL) service, which was introduced in 2018.

A central component of Umbrella Sexual Health in Birmingham is the work being undertaken by a formally contracted network of 174 community pharmacies.

Sexual Health Teesside is a collaboratively commissioned sexual health service with a prime provider that works to one contract signed by all 7 commissioners.

A review of Coventry City Council's statement of licensing policy (SLP) benefits from considering public health and health equality issues.

Government-backed working capital helps technology company secure landmark deal in the US.

An examination of the National Insurance Fund’s future.

Protecting pensions of NHS supply chain workers

Advice on implementation of government policy.

Expert witness analysis on costs.

This case study looks at how setting up a regional group has helped forces to meet their responsibilities arising from section 33 of PoFA and the SC Code.

Contract with Chernobyl New Safe Confinement was won with support from UK Export Finance (UKEF), Welsh Government and Lloyds Banking Group.

PHE and local partners encouraged the rough sleeping and homeless community to attend a TB screening session by offering a wider range of services at the event.

Essex Girl Beauty sells innovative products to beauty salons and retail customers around the world.

Saira provides an insight into her training contract and post-qualification experience within the Government Legal Department

Charles provides an insight into his training contract within HM Revenue & Customs

Learn how the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) used natural language processing to identify patterns across prison reports.

Actuarial expertise to economic regulators.

Advising on alternatives to commercial insurance.

How GAD is helping the World Bank and developing countries plan better for financial losses relating to natural disasters.

How Government Actuary's Department (GAD) used a streamlined approach to complete actuarial valuations of 20 public service pension schemes.

Analysis of pensions for same sex and opposite sex couples.

Report on actuarial valuations of 90+ pension funds.

Modelling the impact of the £95,000 pay-out cap.

Advice and analysis on airline insolvency costs.

The International Charter: Space and Major Disasters (“the Charter”) is a global agreement which aims to provide a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters.

How Manchester city council identified gaps and offered training to prepare social workers for the NAAS assessment.

Learn how the Swedish Land Registry used natural language processing to handle land registry requests more efficiently.

Learn how the Government Digital Service used classification and natural language processing to make GOV.UK more accessible.

Learn how a research institution used clustering to optimise heating and energy consumption.

Learn how a market research start-up used classification and clustering to gain insights to their free-text survey responses.

Learn how the Department for International Development (DFID) used computer vision to estimate populations.

Learn how the Department for Transport (DfT) used clustering to ensure MOT standards remained high.

Learn how a signalling company used regression to reduce train delays.

Lessons from the CMA's investigation into office design companies who broke competition law by cover bidding.

Find out how Cafcass migrated its email services to the cloud and the challenges they had to overcome.

Learn about how Network Rail moved to the hybrid cloud, the challenges it faced and the technologies it used.

A city-wide, multi-agency strategy in Stoke on Trent to tackle the high incidence of speech and language delay identified in children in the early years.