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Browse project applications from Rounds 1 to 3 of the Local Digital Fund. Since Round 4, we no longer publish all applications on our website. However, you can find applications for successful projects on their individual project pages.

A 'Digital Tool' for all Planning Functions

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Brent Council, Tower Hamlets Council, Lewisham Council, Ealing Council, Westminster City Council, Gateshead Council, Lambeth Council, Waltham Forest Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Planning applications, Website improvement

The problem is that the planning service is provided by a number of out of date systems and processes that are not linked together. This provides a confusing, chaotic, opaque system that does not work for service providers and users. There is no tool for this and there is no roadmap…

A Digital Service for Monitoring Affordable Housing Provision

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Fareham Borough Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, LB Hackney, Greater London Authority, Future Cities Catapult

Status: Not funded

Themes: Housing/Planning

Southwark Council wants to ensure that affordable housing is available to the people who need it. Southwark Council, together with the MHCLG and other organisations, such as housing associations, want to be able to better use data to make evidence-based and transparent decisions around the allocation and usage of affordable…

Addressing low engagement in extracurricular activities by children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, by targeting inequalities of opportunity to reduce social, economic and employment barriers, and improve social mobility

Council name: Cambridge City Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

At our discovery phase we delivered XP and XPlore: a small-scale project with 339 children and young people in 6 schools, living in areas of higher deprivation and low social mobility, with a higher concentration of children receiving free school meals (FSM); to understand what methods would increase their extra-curricular…

An online digital solution providing a Con29 service

Council name: London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: LB Southwark, LB Waltham Forest, LB Hackney, Greater London Authority

Status: Not funded

Themes: Building control, Data standards sharing and modelling, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Housing/Planning, Website improvement

HMLR Local Land Charges (LLC) project aims to streamline the LLC ‘service’. Its scope did not include the second element of the current service i.e. provision of replies to questions, which are prescribed in the law society ‘Form Con29’. Completion of the form and provision of a copy of the LLC…

Attainment Automation for Looked After Children and Care Leaver case management systems to address monitoring, tracking and reporting requirements.

Council name: London Borough of Newham

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

The CLA Live Web Application - SaaS is currently in use by Newham Virtual School and Barking and Dagenham Virtual School. It has proven itself to be successful as a specialist tool to track and monitor EET, manage the integrated preparation of Education Plans with key professionals around the child…

Automating Reminders and Confirmation to Bookings and Transactions

Council name: North East Lincolnshire Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Barnsley, Gov Notify , North Yorkshire CC , Lincoln City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Children services, Local government as a platform

Problem Statement Our problem is how we better automate communication & contribute to the reduction in missed appointments & request feedback. Our discovery looked at the problems & challenges for parents separated from their children.  How this leads to a high number of no-shows & late cancellations supervised contacts. But…

Better case management of FOI and SAR requests

Council name: London Borough of Hackney

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Suffolk Council, Stevenage Borough Council (Digital Declaration signoff in progress), Cornwall Council (Digital Declaration signoff in progress)

Status: Funded

Themes: Freedom of information

In response to an earlier discovery process around Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and Subject Access Requests (SARs), Hackney made a set of process improvements, commissioned an open source service that provides a simple user journey for members of the public for making FOI requests, and procured a closed source…

Better signposting to non statutory services for adults

Council name: Buckinghamshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Southwark, Essex, North East Lincolnshire

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Care assessment, Communities, Directory of services, Independent and assistive living, Website improvement

NHS Choices estimate that over the next 17 years more than 16 million of us will be over the age of 65. With less money available and increasing demand, adult social care services across the country are under increasing pressure. The most forward thinking councils are investing in early intervention…

Brownfield Land Digital Developer Tool

Council name: Gateshead Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Southwark

Status: Not funded

Themes: Housing/Planning

The Alpha stage of the project will be the development of a digital planning tool (the Tool) prototype to support the SME housing building industry. The project objective is to develop a digital tool which is scalable to the extent that it could potentially be adopted by every local planning…

Build a standardised re-usable, affordable, EHCP portal.

Council name: Warrington Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

The objective is to build a portal that will allow people to use a common system across different Local Authorities, will support standardisation of information and will break the vendor lock-in created by existing proprietary technologies. The project will leverage prior Discovery projects: “Single View of a Child” delivered by…

Building Capability: Digital Commissioning and Supplier Relationship Management

Council name: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Crown Commercial Service (CCS), London Borough of Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital skills and capability

Across local government generally there’s a lack of skills in digital commissioning; recent engagements have evidenced gaps in understanding / knowledge on: how to most effectively use commercial agreements procurement and digital / technology teams working together effectively At a local level Hackney is looking at how to build skills…

C-19 Challenge: All applications

Council name: C-19 Challenge: All applications

Stage: Funding application –

View all C-19 Challenge applications Applications for the 2020 Local Digital C-19 Challenge were submitted in a different format to the usual funding rounds. You can view all the applications in a spreadsheet: Download .XLXS file Download .CSV file

Can chatbots and AI help solve service design problems?

Council name: Oxford City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Hertsmere Borough Council, Cheltenham Borough Council, Doncaster Council, Preston City Council, North East Derbyshire District Council, Bolsover District Council, Calderdale Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Bromsgrove District Council, Redditch Borough Council, Surrey County Council, Adur and Worthing Councils

Status: Funded

Themes: Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Chatbots

There are problems for local authorities looking to adopt chatbot and AI solutions; There is no shared understanding of the technology and its advantages/disadvantages as a solution to key issues.  There are a variety of products and platforms that already exist on the market, but no objective evaluation of each…

Care & Housing predictive model for improved life chances

Council name: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: London Borough of Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Care assessment, Data standards sharing and modelling, Homelessness, Housing application

The cost of providing social care to families has increased by 8.4% in Waltham Forest over the last 5 years and at the same time the pressure on providing quality homes in London as result of the housing crisis is increasing dramatically. The new ten year housing plan target (2019…

Childrens Social Care demanding modelling

Council name: Suffolk County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Suffolk County Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Children services

The number of Children in Care (CiC), both in Suffolk and nationally, has been rising, whilst expenditure has been rising at an even faster rate. Conversations with practitioners, backed up by the data, also reveal changing characteristics in the CiC population, all of this means that current commissioning models need…

Common Data Model for Children's Services Statutory Returns

Council name: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Greater Manchester Combined Authorities, Manchester City Council, Wigan Borough Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Children services

The problem: Every day, our Children’s Services Departments (CSDs) make key decisions deciding the future of vulnerable children without timely and relevant comparable data. Without this, they cannot accurately assess what works and what doesn’t or make well-informed commissioning decisions. Statutory returns processes specifically are very inefficient and cost-intensive. Although…

Community connectivity social action platform

Council name: London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Uscreates, Bronze Labs, London borough of Westmisnter,Shropshire County Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital inclusion, Directory of services, Local government as a platform

In the Alpha phase, we seek to address the questions: How do we build connection at a hyper-local level? How do we enable interactivity with conveners across the system? We will respond by adapting an existing technology, Tribe™ https://www.tribeproject.org/, which has been designed to address inequality of care provision, to…

Community Led Information Platforms

Council name: City of Wolverhampton Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Walsall Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Communities, Directory of services, Independent and assistive living

We want to discover how we reduce demand on the public sector by developing community led digital platforms to connect local people, to each other, activities, information and assets. The Care Act 2014 requires councils to provide information and advice on how people can lead healthier and more active lives.…

Concept deployment of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) across shared partnership

Council name: Stevenage Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

Stevenage Borough Council and East Herts District Council run  shared ICT and Revenue and benefits partnership. At present many processes and information transfers within both organisations are a manual process.  Both councils wish to initiate a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to reduce manual processes. There are many iterative processes within…

Consistent Recording of Fly Tipping to Support Service Delivery Efficiencies

Council name: Kirklees Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Data standards sharing and modelling, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Housing repairs, Waste, Website improvement

A common problem that many Local Authorities (LA) face is illegal fly tipping.  At a time when budgets remain tight, LAs must find the most efficient operational solutions possible to manage fly tipping.  Whilst all Council’s will have an Environmental team that will investigate and prosecute on fly tip reports,…