... supporting the sector. Shared standards, processes and schema A couple of months ago a workshop was held in which it was shared that in another industry a total lack of any shared standards was hampering ...

... structures of the UK. There is no way LGDS would be able to operate without investment, and the provision of such investment would clearly demonstrate that local government wasn’t simply another item ...

... The fact that it hasn’t is a failure of epic proportions – I’ll leave a discussion of exactly why this has happened for another day. Far more importantly, you may wonder what we should do instead. We ...

... that here’s another one. The unemployment rate for White people in Birmingham is about 9%. What’s the rate for Black people? If you doubled 9%, try again. The answer is actually three times higher – 26%. ...

... I just wonder if I’ll be writing another post on the same issue in five years!   ...

... one style over another upon them. With the exception of transactions (bookings, payments, information, etc…), which should all be done online, collaboration needs to be tackled using a range of tools ...

... was that at Cabinet meetings when George Osborne said "ok, we need to make another couple of billion....any ideas?", whilst everyone else looked down and shuffled their papers, E-Pic could barely wait ...

... a need for more open data, the need for some sort of software or the need for GDS (or its local government equivalent – more on that another day…). The way these things are set up means that the conversation ...

... of wearable tech or another, be it the sensors in your watch which check your health or simply the belt you wear which knows when it should loosen itself. Trouble is, at the more sophisticated end of the ...

... may stay on our work blog. Who knows? One thing I do know is that 2015 will see a lot more public writing from me, one way or another. I apologise in advance.    ...

... here's a brilliant piece for you to read through about a pretty serious topic; social care...   I will ease you in with a simple thought- the way we care for one another matters most about society. ...

... instantly to demands to change gear and direction. Taken over the duration of the match titanic struggles are played out, with the balance of success teetering one way or another rbased on the decisions ...

... Council who are set to lose another 1,000 staff on top of the 1,000 who have already left. The move equates to 1 in 6 members of the current workforce being made redundant or retiring and not being replaced ...

... a competitive pitch. He described it as a “scandalous waste of money”. Another senior figure involved in the decision to award £299,800 from the Cabinet Office to the organisation said the funding request ...

... by some extremely painful and difficult birthing pains after which all of that gets forgotten as you look into the baby’s eyes and resolve to have another one as they are so fantastic. You develop a form ...

... gave them the chance to meet a wide range of organisations and suppliers looking to work with local government in one way or another, as well as hearing from MPs about how central government is responding ...

... Another argument for more integration: Local councillors have a 77% approval rate: almost 70% more than MPs 6)      We’d predicted that there would be a lot of talk of economic development but a surprising ...

... in local government, and another eight in the voluntary and community sector before that. Over all that time I've always worked in some way, shape or form in the world of community engagement, be that ...

... of another local planning authority they may fail the test of compliance with the duty to cooperate or the plan may be found unsound.   Hence the title of this article; first one to get to PINS (the ...

... Network. Another guest post, this one from Mark Upton, argued that we need to create ‘safe spaces’ for public servants across central and local government to get to know each other better and discussed ...