Hilary Hall - Director of Adults, Health and Commissioning at The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

The pandemic galvanised the community into action to work together to support those that were clinically extremely vulnerable and others who needed support.

Harnessing community support is at the heart of our Adult Social Care Transformation Programme and Transformation Strategy and so our response to the pandemic was very much about supporting communities to support themselves. We did this by giving community groups and local initiatives practical and financial support. Within ten days of the first lockdown announcement, we set up an information database called Lyon and a web based contact centre to connect community groups with people in their local areas who needed support.