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Browse project applications from Rounds 1 to 3 of the Local Digital Fund. Since Round 4, we no longer publish all applications on our website. However, you can find applications for successful projects on their individual project pages.

Addressing low engagement in extracurricular activities by children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, by targeting inequalities of opportunity to reduce social, economic and employment barriers, and improve social mobility

Council name: Cambridge City Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

At our discovery phase we delivered XP and XPlore: a small-scale project with 339 children and young people in 6 schools, living in areas of higher deprivation and low social mobility, with a higher concentration of children receiving free school meals (FSM); to understand what methods would increase their extra-curricular…

Attainment Automation for Looked After Children and Care Leaver case management systems to address monitoring, tracking and reporting requirements.

Council name: London Borough of Newham

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

The CLA Live Web Application - SaaS is currently in use by Newham Virtual School and Barking and Dagenham Virtual School. It has proven itself to be successful as a specialist tool to track and monitor EET, manage the integrated preparation of Education Plans with key professionals around the child…

Automating Reminders and Confirmation to Bookings and Transactions

Council name: North East Lincolnshire Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Barnsley, Gov Notify , North Yorkshire CC , Lincoln City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Children services, Local government as a platform

Problem Statement Our problem is how we better automate communication & contribute to the reduction in missed appointments & request feedback. Our discovery looked at the problems & challenges for parents separated from their children.  How this leads to a high number of no-shows & late cancellations supervised contacts. But…

Better signposting to non statutory services for adults

Council name: Buckinghamshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Southwark, Essex, North East Lincolnshire

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Care assessment, Communities, Directory of services, Independent and assistive living, Website improvement

NHS Choices estimate that over the next 17 years more than 16 million of us will be over the age of 65. With less money available and increasing demand, adult social care services across the country are under increasing pressure. The most forward thinking councils are investing in early intervention…

Build a standardised re-usable, affordable, EHCP portal.

Council name: Warrington Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

The objective is to build a portal that will allow people to use a common system across different Local Authorities, will support standardisation of information and will break the vendor lock-in created by existing proprietary technologies. The project will leverage prior Discovery projects: “Single View of a Child” delivered by…

Building Capability: Digital Commissioning and Supplier Relationship Management

Council name: Government Digital Service (GDS)

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Crown Commercial Service (CCS), London Borough of Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital skills and capability

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 and digital / technology teams working together effectively At a local level Hackney is looking at how to build skills…

Care & Housing predictive model for improved life chances

Council name: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: London Borough of Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Care assessment, Data standards sharing and modelling, Homelessness, Housing application

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 homes in London as result of the housing crisis is increasing dramatically. The new ten year housing plan target (2019…

Childrens Social Care demanding modelling

Council name: Suffolk County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Suffolk County Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Children services

The number of Children in Care (CiC), both in Suffolk and nationally, has been rising, whilst expenditure has been rising at an even faster rate. Conversations with practitioners, backed up by the data, also reveal changing characteristics in the CiC population, all of this means that current commissioning models need…

Common Data Model for Children's Services Statutory Returns

Council name: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Greater Manchester Combined Authorities, Manchester City Council, Wigan Borough Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Children services

The problem: Every day, our Children’s Services Departments (CSDs) make key decisions deciding the future of vulnerable children without timely and relevant comparable data. Without this, they cannot accurately assess what works and what doesn’t or make well-informed commissioning decisions. Statutory returns processes specifically are very inefficient and cost-intensive. Although…

Community Led Information Platforms

Council name: City of Wolverhampton Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Walsall Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Communities, Directory of services, Independent and assistive living

We want to discover how we reduce demand on the public sector by developing community led digital platforms to connect local people, to each other, activities, information and assets. The Care Act 2014 requires councils to provide information and advice on how people can lead healthier and more active lives.…

Concept deployment of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) across shared partnership

Council name: Stevenage Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

Stevenage Borough Council and East Herts District Council run  shared ICT and Revenue and benefits partnership. At present many processes and information transfers within both organisations are a manual process.  Both councils wish to initiate a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to reduce manual processes. There are many iterative processes within…

Data-Led Digital Discharge - Support, Enable, Empower, to Prevent Re-entry (encourage self caring rather than Council reliant services)

Council name: London Borough of Havering

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

This solution has been chosen from our discovery outcomes due to the disparity digital / IoT deployments across Newham, Havering, Brent & LBBD already with digital technologies across: Older Adult Extra Care Schemes Learning Disability Schemes Independent Living Post Hospital Discharge Adult & LD Living Independently in the community It…

Developing Family Context: a solution that puts information on family context into the hands of social workers so that they can better access and support children and their family

Council name: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Beta

Partners: Leeds City Council and Manchester City Council

Status: Funded

Our proposed beta solution: The Family Context tool will provide social workers in Children’s Social Care with information on relevant family members and their interactions with key services (police, adult social care, housing and schools). This will enable Social Workers to make more informed assessments of safeguarding risk and support…

Digital data protection impact assessment (DPIA) tool

Council name: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council is our named lead partner, Due to the nature of our work we will be working with the 10 Local Authorities in GM. Three areas have signed the Local Digital Decleration (Wigan, Manchester and Stockport) and we will be actively encouraging the remaining authorities to sign as soon as possible

Status: Funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling, Digital skills and capability

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 in a complicated and fragmented approach particularly across partnerships. Challenges include that process are reliant on a small number of specialist staff…

Digital identification and support of vulnerable citizens pre-crisis.

Council name: Mid Sussex District Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Status: Not funded

TellJO is a digital self-assessment sent out by a local authority to its customers, enabling the local authority to proactively identify and engage with their vulnerable citizens at pre-crisis. The discovery phase of the TellJO project was funded by TellJO as a pilot to test the following hypotheses: 1.Do people…

Discovery to help understand how we can modernise online council accounts

Council name: Cheshire East Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

The problem of low account take-up exists in many authorities; particularly with low take-up across high volume transactional services such as Benefits; Council Tax; Rent etc. Some of the perceived problems, we will look to understand, include;   Poorly designed websites; mobile first principles not observed across the whole site;…

Emergency Planning from manual to digital

Council name: Thanet District Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, University of Kent

Status: Not funded

Themes: Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Data standards sharing and modelling, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Directory of services

The Local Authority works in partnership with other organisations to improve the resilience of Kent and to ensure a coordinated response to emergencies. Emergency planning should aim to prevent emergencies occurring, or reduce the effect of an emergency. Our process is heavily reliant on manual intervention to develop, complete and…

Engaging and communicating with children in social care

Council name: Barking and Dagenham Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

Our aim is to empower children and young people known to the local authority and enable them to take better control of their lives. Providing the appropriate channel for young people to voice their concerns and request help or guidance in a way that is comfortable for them would allow…

Establishing a service design pattern for user feedback

Council name: Newcastle City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North of Tyne Combined Authorities (inc Northumberland County Council)

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Building control, Care assessment, Change of address, Chatbots, Children services, Communities, Council tax, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Directory of services, Freedom of information, Health and social care record, Housing application, Housing repairs, Libraries, Local government as a platform, Parking, Planning applications, Single sign on, Taxi Licencing, Waste, Website improvement

Problem Statement At Newcastle City Council we have adopted an agile approach to developing digital services for our customers. We don’t, however, have a consistent process to receive, analyse and act upon our users using Beta public services. This view is shared with collaborative partners, North of Tyne group. Having…

Exploring issues around a sharable model of IoT standards for security, interoperability and data so that emerging IoT applications can be incorporated into a standard framework.

Council name: Roayl Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

Internet technologies around IoT are promising radical improvements in how we serve our residents and businesses. This gives rise to a range of emerging opportunities to achieve significant social and economic benefits for our communities. However, we need to make sure that we put people first and foremost in this…