Insights and action learning
Continuously improving Future Ready
Insights Focus Groups
Urban Foresight ran a series of focus groups at the start of July aimed at gathering deeper insights into emerging areas of interest across the Future Ready cohort.
Focus Group 1
Green skills in local government
Focus Group 2
Integrating health and social care within local net zero
Focus Group 3
Decision-making in housing and retrofit projects
The three sessions saw between 15-30 attendees each, with representation from Future Ready project leads, delivery partners and nominated internal colleagues from our participating local authorities. The Future Ready team are currently building a dedicated Insights space on the Community Platform, where we will share the summary reports from each session.
Thank you to everyone that came along, and we’re looking forward to sharing the insights space with you soon!
Action Learning
You told us →
- Small, deep and focused conversations were the most effective mode of learning during this period.
- Face-to-face meetings remain highly valued, particularly the unstructured time in and around these events.
- Participants are affecting change through initiating conversations, influencing leadership, engaging with other actors in their place and plugging Net Zero into their Councils processes and systems.
Significant learning →
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53% of you said it was learning about the issues Future Ready peers face and how they are approaching them.
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29% of you mentioned citizen engagement referencing the Cardiff workshop.
Connections were made →
11 self-organised working groups established.
6 facilitated policy groups set up.
Multiple 1-1 meetings and direct exchanges.
Creating ripples →
The project provides strong foundations to support internal conversations and decision making.”
I am now having discussions/influencing at leadership level in the Council, these have been instigated through a gap analysis on embedding net zero within the Council as well as developing relationships and conversations on net zero with senior leaders. We have included a net zero section in our service delivery plans and this is beginning to influence some services.”