Join us in the Innovation Zone
for a coffee
"Welcome back! We are delighted to be sponsoring the LGA Annual Conference’s Innovation Zone and look forward to finally catching up face to face with friends and colleagues over the next three days.
The sessions we are running over the next few days are designed to share insights and reflections from our current client and partner programmes – whether that’s in Norfolk where we are using big data and advanced analytics to drive an effective prevention agenda; our local and regional analysis of the implications of the forthcoming charging reforms; or our initial reflections on the Delivering Better Value in SEND programme.
Please pop by, say hello, and grab a coffee!"
Steve Phillips
Senior Partner at Newton Europe
'Spotlight on' session
Karl Lokko
Wednesday 29th June 12:25pm-1:10pm
Not to be missed, Karl is a former gang leader turned activist, poet, public speaker, adventurer and personal advisor to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Having grown up on the gang-ridden Myatts Field estate, Karl saw his first shooting at the age of 12 and went on to be shot at, stabbed, cut in the face and witness to his close friends’ murders. It wasn’t until the intervention of a Church-run anti-youth violence project that Karl was able to denounce his gang involvement and turn his life around.
Now a successful campaigner, Karl works to reform gang culture and fight for social justice.
Innovation Zone sessions
"Since we were last here, our focus hasn’t changed – we continue to work in partnership with local government to reimagine public services, in a way that guarantees to improve outcomes and reduce cost. However, I am proud that our programmes, both locally and nationally, have evolved in their breadth and scale. Our sessions are designed to share insights and reflections from our current client and partner programmes."
Steve Phillips - Senior Partner, Newton Europe
Preparing for the implementation of adult social care charging reform
Tuesday 28th June, 3:20pm-4:00pm
Rachael Shimmin - Chief Executive, Buckinghamshire County Council
Daniel Sperrin - Director, Newton Europe
The forthcoming reforms to the way in which people pay for their care will have a dramatic impact on local authorities, providers and service users, both operationally and financially. With many details about how these reforms will work in practice still to be confirmed, Newton has worked alongside the County Councils Network and a sector-wide Steering Group to bring new insight on the impact of the charging reforms, and to advise on practical ways in which these impacts can be mitigated.
This session will share the output of the work (which will be relevant to any local authority with responsibility for adult social care), an assessment tool which will help local authorities understand the impact for their council, and how other councils are thinking about how to implement the reforms. www.futureasc.com/reform
A resident-centred approach to adult social care: using big data and advanced analytics to drive an effective prevention agenda
Wednesday 29th June, 1:25pm-2:05pm
James Bullion - Executive Director, Adult Social Services, Norfolk County Council
Phil Mandeville - Director, Newton Europe
This session will explore how Norfolk County Council is combining innovative machine learning techniques, frontline expertise, and big data to create an intimate understanding of residents and service users. This is improving the council’s ability to connect communities and offer the right support at the right time. They are building a connected-data platform where machine learning can be used to automatically extract insight on evolving strengths and needs from case notes, allowing for the creation of advanced analytical models showing the level of risk different people face. This is enabling a more targeted and personalised place-based commissioning strategy, whilst also empowering practitioners and the voluntary sector to proactively support people before they reach crisis point.
This session will also explore how the council plans to track the benefit of any interventions so they can continuously learn and improve, whilst providing a solid evidence base for more effective future investments in the community.
Designing the ‘delivering better value in SEND’ programme
Wednesday 29th June, 11:40am-12:15pm
Edwina Grant - Executive Director of Education and Children's Services, Lancashire County Council
Chika Chukwujekwu - Department for Education
Stephen Knight - Partner, Newton Europe
Oli Clipsham - Business Manager, Newton Europe
This session will share early thinking on the scope, approach, and timelines to the ‘Delivering better value in SEND programme’. As one of many planned engagements with all local authorities, including the 55 chosen to be part of the programme, the session will be look to discuss and seek feedback from authorities on the approach, and how to best work together to deliver on the objectives of the programme.
Fringe session
Preparing for Social Care Reform
Wednesday 29th June, 5:15pm-6:15pm
Queens Suite 2, Harrogate Convention Centre
County Councils Network and Newton Europe
The County Councils Network and Newton are pleased to invite you to a fringe at the LGA Conference on Preparing for Social Care Reform, following the launch last month of new research which you can find here.
Please email CCNevents@local.gov.uk to register for this session.
Our work
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"I think the programme’s biggest difference is its ambition. We haven’t had many programmes that work across systems like this. I think that’s the real uniqueness of the Connect programme and it keeps people at the heart of what it’s trying to do. It’s not just about efficiency, it’s about outcomes." Nick Presmeg, Executive Director for Adult Social Care, Essex County Council
"It is a really excellent example of a “win-win”, where the resident has a better life than they would have had and, at the same time, the financial burdens on the system are also relieved." Cllr John Spence, Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health, Essex County Council
"Forward Thinking has given me an awareness to further explore avenues and strategies to promote independence, as well as enabling the service users to be heard to voice to their preferences and goals!" Social Care Assessor, Royal Borough of Greenwich Council
Get in touch
We'd love to hear from you so please get in touch to share your thoughts or ask any questions about our sessions.
Who is Newton?
Newton works as partner to the public sector to design and deliver largescale, complex, transformation and improvement programmes.
As specialists in operational improvement, we work alongside local authorities, NHS Trusts and government departments to take an evidence-led and bottom-up approach to reimagine and redesign digitally-enabled public services. In doing so, we put 100% of our fees at risk to deliver programmes which have a measurable and sustainable impact on outcomes for people, staff engagement and finances.