LogMeIn (United Kingdom)

ABSTRACT This case study examines the application of systems approaches to facilitate cross-departmental collaboration in local authorities when addressing complex health determinants through spatial planning. It focuses on a co-design workshop delivered with East Sussex County Council, an upper tier authority in England, which brought together public health practitioners, built environment professionals, Food Partnerships, and National Health Service (NHS) stakeholders to address healthy food environments. With the aim of using a ‘whole-systems approach/working’ to provide an opportunity for collaboration, shared learning, and facilitation to develop an improved understanding and ‘level’ of consistency across East Sussex (a two-tier authority) on how to enable and create healthy food environments. The workshop enabled participants to align perspectives, develop common language, explore conflicting priorities, and map knowledge, mechanisms, and policy levers that influence healthy food environments. The study analyses workshop methodology, outcomes, and limitations, highlighting how structured cross-departmental and cross-sectoral engagement using systems thinking enables participants to visualise complex relationships between planning and health outcomes. Findings demonstrate improved partnership working, policy alignment, and enhanced cross-departmental understanding. The workshop provided valuable facilitation and opportunities to gather insight for other local authorities seeking to overcome institutional silos and improve collaboration between planning and public health departments.

✨ New features and improvements Add base support for Amharic. Add noun chunk iterator for Danish. Updates to French, Portuguese and Romanian stop words. 🔴 Bug fixes Fix issue #6705: Fix deserialization of null <code>token_match</code> and <code>url_match</code> for the tokenizer. Fix issue #6712: Prevent overlapping noun chunks for Spanish. Fix issue #6745: Fix minibatch iterator when size iterator is finished. Fix issue #6759: Skip 0-length matches in the <code>Matcher</code>. Fix issue #6771: Support <code>IS_SENT_START</code> in the <code>PhraseMatcher</code>. Fix issue #6772: Fix <code>Span.text</code> for empty spans. Fix issue #6820: Improve <code>Doc.char_span</code> <code>alignment_mode</code> handling. Fix issue #6857: Remove <code>--no-cache-dir</code> when downloading models. Fix issue #8115: Fix offsets in <code>Span.get_lca_matrix</code>. 👥 Contributors Thanks to @alexcombessie, @AMArostegui, @bryant1410, @Cristianasp, @garethsparks, @jenojp, @jganseman, @jumasheff, @lorenanda, @ophelielacroix, @thomasbird, @timgates42, @tupui and @yosiasz for the pull requests and contributions.