South Tyneside Council
We would like to learn more about digital skills, exclusion and inclusion in relation to local government digital services and understand how to reduce non-participation and improve the delivery of […]
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Laying the foundations for better local public services
We would like to learn more about digital skills, exclusion and inclusion in relation to local government digital services and understand how to reduce non-participation and improve the delivery of […]
Southwark Council wants to ensure that affordable housing is available to the people who need it. Southwark Council, together with the MHCLG and other organisations, such as housing associations, want […]
Moving house is stressful and this is not helped by the complexity of the public sector front-end, as a new resident has to navigate individually a disjointed mass of bureaucratic processes in […]
Local Authorities have made significant progress in providing digital services to the public. As this journey continues it is becoming increasingly apparent, both from customer feedback and professional teams, that […]
We are seeking to speed up the viability assessment process and reduce administration, while also increasing the provision of affordable homes. Main objectives for the alpha phase are to: Build […]
This project aims to address rising homelessness affecting councils across the UK. We would like to see how this can be controlled and prevented through early intervention. Our vision is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our project wishes to bring joined-up, best-practice digital thinking to the challenging problem of local service directories. Every local authority, health organisation, police force, together with other voluntary sector partners […]
The Alpha stage of the project will be the development of a digital planning tool (the Tool) prototype to support the SME housing building industry. The project objective is 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, […]
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 […]
There is an increasing need for reliable data on proposed and approved development in order to measure progress toward housing delivery and other Government priorities. Obtaining even limited data on […]
The cost of providing social care to families has increased by 8.4% in Waltham Forest over the last 5 years and at the same time the pressure on providing quality […]
Suffolk County Council and our partners need to safeguard front line services by ensuring that we execute back office work in the most effective and efficient way possible. We want […]