Social Value Ideas for Leicestershire County Council

Efficiency review investment

The efficiency review and revised transformation programme require a one-off net investment of £20m before becoming self-financing. Officers described the programme as containing 13 benefit proposals,…

“View review has been undertaken by Newton Consulting alongside council officers and lead members and has resulted in 13 benefits proposals in addition…”

£7m underspend allocated

The council reported a £7m revenue underspend for 2025/26 and proposed to use it for debt repayment, highways support, and transformation programme costs. This is a clear budget decision with potentia…

“So the report then sets out a proposed use of that and to spend that £7,000,000 which is focused on a number of strategic and service related prioriti…”

Use of £7m underspend

Cabinet considered and approved proposals to allocate the council’s £7m revenue underspend. The money is split between debt reduction, highway schemes, and funding implementation of the efficiency rev…

“The report recommends a 7,000,000 underspend is allocated to 2 and a half million for the capital financing and debt repayments, helping to reduce fur…”

Efficiency review implementation cost

The council is proposing a large efficiency programme with significant upfront implementation costs before savings are realised. Officers explained that the programme includes both existing MTFS savin…

“Speaker 2: Thank you, madam chairman. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for the invitation to mister Fowler and myself to attend today's meeting.…”

Better Leicestershire programme

Cabinet approved the revised transformation programme, renamed/organised as Better Leicestershire, to bring together all key change activity under a single plan with new governance. The programme is f…

“The proposal is for all key change activities in the council to be brought together into a single coherent plan under better Leicestershire to ensure …”

Hospital discharge experience poor

Healthwatch found that only 46% of respondents rated hospital discharge as good or excellent and only 58% felt involved in discharge discussions. Medication delays and communication problems remained …

“Only forty six percent rated their hospital discharge experience as good or excellent. So that gives us an idea that more than half of the people that…”

Discharge report shows persistent issues

Healthwatch reported that despite previous work, discharge from hospital still suffers from recurring problems: communication failures, delays in medication, and inconsistent patient involvement. The …

“Particular key themes that arose under that title were issues with communication between staff and patients as well as between services and department…”

Discharge work to strategic group

The board agreed that Healthwatch discharge findings should be tied into the strategic discharge group, which will oversee operating procedures and discharge improvement work across UHL and LPT. This …

“So what I'll make sure is that the report is tied into their work program because that's, from a governance perspective, really where it needs to sit …”

Children's social care redesign

Children’s services outlined four linked efficiency proposals: reunification, targeted prevention, family-based placements, and smarter commissioning. The department argued these are evidence-based re…

“Speaker 12: So in respect of children and family services, there are a number of key service demands that need to be met, alongside key government ref…”

Placement cost pressure

Children’s services described very high residential placement costs and shortages of foster and family-based placements. Officers said some children are in residential homes unnecessarily because of s…

“Speaker 12: Currently placement sufficiency both nationally and locally mean more children are living in residential care. This includes children whos…”