Blog posts

The pilot enabled us to gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for digital transformation in local government.

In this blog post, we’ll provide an update on our work to develop the CAF and share how your council can start getting ready.

We’re pleased to announce an ambitious 3 year plan for the Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standard that could potentially deliver millions of pounds in annual savings.

We reflect on our progress and share our plans to adapt our approach to take on a more strategic role as a ‘steward’.

Read some of the interesting findings from our independent evaluation of the Local Digital programme to understand the impact and value-for-money of the support we offer to local government.

In this blog post, we want to outline the challenges we’ve identified with the cohort and invite you to share your feedback and experiences.

This month marks a key milestone for the Local Digital Declaration as it reaches its fifth anniversary, and we’ll be celebrating throughout July.

Following the success of last year’s Executive Education Programme in Digital Transformation for UK Local Government, we decided to run the programme again.

We’re pleased to announce the 17 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund.

We are delighted to announce the councils that will be taking part in the pilot of Future Councils.

Before our selected projects begin their work on Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund, we’re taking a look back at projects from our previous round.

In this blog post, we want to celebrate some of our highlights from 2022 and provide an insight of what’s to come in 2023.

As our first phase of the CAF for Local Government comes to an end, we’re keen to share some insights and feedback before we move forward.

We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open to join the pilot of Future Councils.

We want to set a clear standard and expectation around cyber resilience for local authorities in England, based on the established NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF).

In this blog post, we want to celebrate our highlights from the fourth anniversary of the Declaration and share stories that we’ve heard from the community

This year has seen the Local Digital team travelling around the country for the first time in two years as part of the Local Digital Roadshow series.

In March this year, we teamed up with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Institute to jointly deliver a virtual programme for local government at no cost.

The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backed by multi-year funding to the tune of £85 million.

In this blog post, I want to reflect back on the lessons learnt and achievements, such as bringing local authorities together to solve common challenges, and in particular how a group of local authorities and suppliers are cooperating together to deliver an open source solution.