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Supporting councils with technology decisions during local government reorganisation

December 18, 2025

Local government reorganisation (LGR) brings significant organisational change and complex technology choices. We’re helping councils make those decisions safely and strategically.

Deploying the Open Referral UK standard with LocalGov Drupal for better service data

December 3, 2025

The Open Referral UK (ORUK) team recently presented at LocalGov Drupal Week, demonstrating how councils can achieve interoperability and cost savings by integrating the ORUK API directly into their LocalGov Drupal websites.

Understanding supplier priorities: insights from the LGA and TechUK local government reorganisation event

November 18, 2025

We joined the LGA and TechUK supplier event to discuss the challenges and possibilities of LGR and explore how the sector can work together.

Improving community service information with Open Referral UK

November 4, 2025

To deliver more reliable signposting, particularly for mental health support, BCP Council and NHS Dorset adopted the Open Referral UK standard.

Digital and cyber support for local government reorganisation

October 27, 2025

We are developing a playbook of guidance, case studies, and tools to help councils with the digital, data, technology and cyber elements of reorganisation.

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Supporting councils with a Cyber Incident Response service

October 22, 2025

MHCLG is making a Cyber Incident Response service available to English councils helping them to respond quickly and effectively to incidents.

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Building understanding of software markets in local government

September 18, 2025

To help councils operate as intelligent buyers and support suppliers to meet sector ambitions, we are developing a software market intelligence tool.

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Key learnings from GOV.UK One Login discovery research for local government

September 11, 2025

In this blog, we share key findings and insights from our research, based on conversations with councils and suppliers.

New councils, new tools – what’s next for Open Referral UK

August 27, 2025

The Open Referral UK (ORUK) community continues to grow, helping to improve how local service data is shared across the UK.

Meet the team supporting councils through their Cyber Assessment Framework journey

June 25, 2025

Get to know the team members supporting councils through their CAF journey and find out how we’ve helped councils build their resilience.

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Supporting local government to reduce cyber risk through targeted interventions

June 10, 2025

The cyber threat to local government is real, increasing, and evolving. Four years into the Cyber Support programme, we’re sharing insights from our cyber work.

The case for common digital solutions across local government

May 22, 2025

We explore why shared digital approaches are so important, barriers to standardisation, and how councils are making them work.

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Exploring approaches for using GOV.UK One Login in local government

April 23, 2025

We are launching a discovery phase to explore how One Login could benefit local government.

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Local Digital’s next steps with Tom Smith, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

April 11, 2025

Tom Smith highlights the push for AI adoption, digital transformation and cyber resilience in councils.

Strengthening cyber resilience in local government through WARPs

February 26, 2025

The Warning, Advice and Reporting Point (WARP) meetings bring together information security, assurance, and governance practitioners from local government.

Building a social housing data community

January 23, 2025

Our social housing data community will tackle some of the biggest data challenges in the sector.

Open Referral UK: the journey so far

January 13, 2025

The adoption of the ORUK data standard continues to increase. Here’s a look at the progress so far and what’s to come.

Transforming the housing sector through improved data

September 30, 2024

Find out about our work to explore solutions to the data challenges faced by the social housing sector.

Introducing our new Open Referral UK steering group

September 20, 2024

We’ve brought together a group of changemakers to drive the implementation of the Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standard across local government.

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Scaling data standards to support local government

April 10, 2024

Local Digital have made additional investments in data standards to ensure they scale and reach their full potential, but we want to go further.

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