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04 Nov 2010

... the most effective public services have to be designed to target effort on preventing problems rather than the more expensive option of fixing them further down the line.

This is exactly what the Mansfield District Council Housing Solutions (MARS) Scheme set out to achieve. By working successfully with credit unions and private landlords, not only did they provide excellent services to vulnerable people in the community but they also created net cost savings of £231,594 for the authority.

View the MARS video case study to see how their idea earned them a 2010 Delivering Chances Award for Integrated Services.

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