Derbyshire County Council has been recognised for the design of a new Equalities Impact Assessment (EIA) and embedding it successfully into the Council's ways of working, particularly within project management across the Council. The revised EIA assisted in achieving Level 3 of the National Equality Standard for Local Government. During the Level 3 assessment Derbyshire County Council was particularly commended for its work in the use of equality mapping, consultation and research, as well as for its strong record on promoting disability equality.

The development of a new Equality scheme in 2009 gave Nottingham City Council the opportunity to simplify its approach to equalities and embed it into services, departments and key processes such as performance management and commissioning.

This approach has already brought a number of benefits including clearly showing the Council's equality priorities and how people can support them, an emphasis on outcomes rather than activities, clear accountability and a greater freedom for officers to achieve outcomes through existing work.

‘Fair price, Fair care' across the East Midlands

Through the implementation of a Care Funding Calculator across the region's authorities, Adult Social Care Services in the East Midlands have generated over £2 million in savings since 2008, forecast to become £4.5 million cumulatively when the 2010-2011 figures are included. This represents an average price reduction of 17%.

Corby Borough Council, and partners, have been awarded a Green Flag by the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) for recovery and rejuvenation in the town following One Corby approach to regeneration and service delivery adopted in 2004.