Birmingham City Council
In January 2008 arc 4 organised a series of workshops to enable Birmingham CC staff to see how other authorities and organisations had handled clearance, to share best practice and debate the topic. The City Council had undertaken a Kickstart-related project and were looking to upgrade their RRO rehousing and support packages and wished to explore how other LAs carried out their consultation and used the information gathered to put together supportive housing packages.
Hywel Williams (Service Manager on the Pathfinder Team) commented: "The workshops hit the right note with our staff and were definitely at the right level. We learned a lot about how clearance areas are being developed. From start to finish, arc 4 understood exactly what we wanted - and delivered it!" Guy Chaundy was so pleased with the outcome of the workshops that he felt that "there would be benefits to be had in have a final session focusing on an LA led Clearance scheme with a similar tenure mix to that of current BCC projects" and has asked arc 4 to facilitate this. arc 4 welcome the opportunity to carry out more work with Birmingham CC who have also decided to use arc 4 's Masterclasses to support their senior staff through this complex topic of affordable loans.