The strategic alliance of High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and the sharing of its services, including an Equality & Diversity Policy Officer, has already begun to generate savings and increase efficiency in just under a year.

The East Midlands Property Alliance (empa) has been formed by Local Authorities in the East Midlands to improve the delivery of property services to their communities. empa is tasked with providing best practice and efficiency savings to the local authorities for construction and related services. As at October 2009 twenty-eight East Midlands local authorities are members of empa.

An innovative training approach has enabled authorities in the East Midlands to make lasting improvements to their services whilst saving money and building internal capability.

Lincolnshire County Council have used an ‘internal review’ approach to achieving whole council Investors in People (IIP) status.