UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Laying the foundations for better local public services
We will embed an open culture that values, incentivises and expects digital ways of working from every member of our workforce. This means working in the open wherever we can, sharing our plans and experience, working collaboratively with other organisations, and reusing good practice.
Welcome to the Digital Planning Improvement Fund 2025/2026. This page provides essential guidance for Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) interested in applying for funding. About the fund The Digital Planning […]
West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) will explain how they are using artificial intelligence (AI), automation and digital transformation to power and enable innovative, automated and integrated digital services. The council will […]
Welcome to our digital citizen engagement toolkit which is designed to support local authorities (LAs) in using digital tools for improved consultations and engagement in planning. Developed with a user-centred […]
This has been an important, madly busy week for our new Local Digital Collaboration Unit. In just a 2-week period, we received 389 unique expressions of interest in running collaborative Local Digital Fund projects from 171 organisations. Taking open to the whole next level, our next next task is to publish the whole lot on our website.
The Declaration was co-published with 45 organisations on 4 July 2018. This is our ambition for local public services, and our commitment to making it happen. We are a collective […]
In this blog post, we’ll share some reflections from our first roadshow, which visited 5 cities across the UK throughout June and July. The events aimed to inform our plans […]
It’s notoriously difficult to scale innovation around the local public sector. Technology designed for one local authority doesn’t just slide neatly into another, because council systems speak different languages and […]
