Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) are a requirement of data protection legislation but are seen as an intensive and onerous process. We know a range of templates are currently used resulting […]
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Laying the foundations for better local public services
Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) are a requirement of data protection legislation but are seen as an intensive and onerous process. We know a range of templates are currently used resulting […]
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 […]
Councils increasingly have transformation teams with digital skills but they tend to be small teams struggling to manage the demand from services wanting digital change. There have been small scale […]
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 […]
Missed bin reports are a problem to all LAs that have responsibility for them. The impact is customer contact through whatever channel, some of which is real and some through […]
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 […]
The user experience for accessing pest control services online is inconsistent across local authorities, and inefficient for the user, pest control practitioners and local authority staff. Councils are duplicating effort to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]