Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Laying the foundations for better local public services
Problem Statement The Digital Economy Act 2017 enables greater powers to share Registration Services data for birth, deaths and marriages with other local public sector partners – the common ‘problem’ […]
Councils across the UK hold an incredible wealth of data but have been slow to mirror the private sector in optimising this data as a strategic and operational tool to […]
Every local authority is tasked with hundreds of functions, and through individual transformation programmes many are redesigning them to provide better, cheaper services. There are hundreds of councils across England […]
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 […]
Local Government organisations use a broad range of website platforms to provide information and online services to local citizens and businesses. Many of these platforms are limited by proprietary formats, […]
As per the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 local authorities are a category 1 responders and have a key role in supporting emergency services and are equally responsible for assessing the […]
Problem: councils struggle to implement modern APIs for local address lookup which resolve unique property reference numbers (UPRNs), so where digital services are developed by or in collaboration with third […]
The fundamental issue to address as part of the project is to produce a one-stop-shop of all services across the city. Currently there are multiple databases and multiple service providers, […]
Many councils across the UK are finding that “inclusive growth” is a key philosophy for building better and more resilient communities. It is also widely understood that societal inequalities will […]
Problem Statement Evidence and agreement exists about the benefits and opportunities to be gained from sharing data between public sector organisations. NESTA, INVOLVE and others have completed work tackling the […]
By utilising physical and digital interactions to offer human-centred support before needs become critical we could save money on expensive high-need treatments and also ensure our population is happier, healthier […]
Working in partnership, all authorities have investigated options available and explored the benefits of adopting new approach for communication technologies, together with utilising the benefits of a partnership approach to […]
Within Gloucestershire we have many silo’ed services that all have the joint aim of increasing independence, mobility and safety within the home and community. We want to join these up to […]
