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%.

Nottinghamshire County Council has been awarded a Green Flag for innovative approaches to the provision of wellbeing to its older community, through improved access to services and new preventative services in the form of the ‘Notts 50 Plus Scheme.'

An independent MORI survey reported user satisfaction figures of 76.9% (over 90% for trams) for public transport in Nottingham making it the joint highest in the country. This, combined with the sustained increase in use of public transport in the city, 7% since 2004 excluding concessions, has earned Nottingham City Council a Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) Green Flag.