Collaboration is Key for Developing Decarbonisation Skills

The four councils represented in this group, like all Local Authorities across Wales, have tough Net Zero targets. These six Infuse associates identified skills as a major barrier to decarbonisation.

Increasing engagement with SMEs to drive social value procurement

How can we engage small and medium enterprises to improve the quality of working relationships and encourage more smaller businesses to bid for our framework contracts for maintenance in Monmouthshire.

Tackling Complex Challenges in Social Care and Health

From social workers to domiciliary care staff and from childcare settings to residential care homes, local authorities and the providers they work with are struggling to maintain staffing levels sufficient to meet local demand.

How Could a Metadata Catalogue Help Improve Data Accessibility at MCC?

For staff to be encouraged and empowered to innovate within an organisation, they need easy access to the data which can enable them to meet their outcomes.

Where should new council pool company cars go?

If only we knew where the high mileage claimants live, have as their office base and travel to, we could identify the best places to locate electric pool vehicles, so that the staff who travel most can borrow those vehicles easily and so reduce their grey mileage claims, saving the council money and carbon

Speaking to the right people

This case study demonstrates how the use of more innovative engagement methods help to increase involvement with groups that don't normally engage. Using the example of the Barry Wayfinding scheme.

Microenterprises for social care and support in communities

This case study looks at how we can ensure we have robust evaluation plans in place to evidence the impact of Microenterprise in social care and supporting our communities.

Data Science Mini-projects

This case study will cover four data science ‘mini-projects’. These projects include data science themes such as sentence embeddings, data reduction, clustering, topic and time-series analysis, as well as data visualisation and data cleaning. We hope these can act as flavours of how data science can be used to help public servants and others get more from their data. In keeping with the material covered in the Data Lab.

Understanding Energy demand in schools to inform investment decisions

This case study focuses on the possibility of measuring the carbon footprint of our secondary schools based on the scope 2 emissions defined by Welsh Government, in order to better communicate and evaluate investment choices throughout schools.

Improvement in young people’s lives through Public Service

This case study focuses on the idea of creating an evaluation tool that measures the journey and progress a young person makes in social care sessions that is more accurate that the current model. Mainly to better demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of social care service than the current data capture tool, but also to keep in mind the engagement from the young person.

Fleet Vehicles Route to Low Emission

This case study focuses on how can we use information available for various kinds of ultra-low emission vehicles (including cost, efficiency, availability & capability) alongside carbon saving innovation to inform an implementation plan for Councils fleet de-carbonisation strategy.

Participatory Budgeting for Community Engagement

This case study looks into how can we more effectively engage with all citizens in our communities, especially those voices heard less often, to better understand their priorities, interests and needs, as part of building effective Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).

Mapping the CCR Residential Area for Prioritised Decarbonisation

Using data to enable effective decision making for retrofitting homes

If only we knew which homes needed prioritising for retrofit decarbonisation works based on factors like inefficiencies, household health and income. Think of the possibilities if we had a tool to help us see who’s most in need. In this case study we learn how maps and data when used proactively and innovatively can be effective at identifying areas of need across the region. By adopting a regional and collaborative approach we can work together to support the most in need first.

Embedding an ABCD Approach in Local Authorities.

What’s strong? Putting communities first is as simple as ABCD

Putting Communities at the heart of community development by putting them first and last. Ensuring community voices are driving and leading their development. In this case study we learn how embedding an Asset Based Community Development approach in public service provides both what’s needed and wanted in communities. Building on the strengths of communities and co-producing our public services.

Carbon Literacy Training

Making a difference; knowing, understanding, and mitigating our carbon impact.

This case study looked at the impact of wider awareness and knowledge of carbon literacy. Does greater awareness result in greater action? By knowing what the impact is, we can change behaviours to reduce the impact and become more sustainable.

Innovative Procurement - Creating Commercial Opportunities across the Cardiff Capital Region

How do we spend more Welsh public money in Wales, on Welsh businesses?

How do we ensure that the businesses in Wales are prepared for and able to tender and fulfil the contracts? In this case study we examine the data around local procurement and how we more effectively use it to enable our local and foundational economy. It’s the first step to fully understanding and integrating a successful supplier network.

Exploring Viable Solutions to Managing Waste Streams

Overlooked abundance of bioenergy?

Dog waste is a significant hazard to health and the environment. The disposal and waste management of it is outdated and ineffective. With about 10 millions dogs in the UK producing over a million tonnes of waste per year; we ask; is dog waste a viable option for bioenergy in Wales? and what would a deposit or collection scheme look like? This case study explores if and how.

Testing the Infuse Tools - Digital Lending Library

Can we reignite and reinvent an otherwise dormant project by applying innovation skills and thinking?

In this study, the associate tested whether the use the skills, tools, methods, and processes acquired in Infuse could kickstart a stalled Digital Lending Library project.