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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.

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…

True user value of AI Voice Technology

Council name: Newcastle City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North of Tyne Combined Authority (inc Northumberland County Council), Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Sunderland City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Chatbots, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability

There has been a growth in the availability and use of AI Voice technology, e.g. Google Voice / Amazon Alexa, within the service industry, e.g. 1 in 10 British citizens now own such a device (YouGov). Research shows this is to grow, with more devices becoming AI Voice enabled and an increase in…

Discovery to explore the benefits of a common API platform

Council name: London Borough of Hackney

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: London Borough of Southwark, LB Croydon, Lewisham Homes

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling, Local government as a platform

As signatories to the Local Digital Declaration we want to break our dependence on inflexible and expensive technology that doesn’t join up. This means using modular building blocks for IT, and open standards to give a common structure to the data we create. But we can’t achieve this by switching…

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…

Organisational Digital Skills for Life

Council name: Ashfield District Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Mansfield District Council, Southwark Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Digital skills and capability

We are seeking to adopt a whole organisation approach to embedding digital skills across the workforce. It is essential that we seek to equip our employees with the skills, knowledge and understanding to live, learn and work in a digital society. ‘Digital for Life’ is key to successful transformational change…

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…

To improve the Electoral Registration process

Council name: Harrow Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: TBC

Status: Not funded

Themes: Single sign on, Website improvement

The current processes around electoral registration and the annual canvass are both paper driven and resource intensive. As a result, these services are unnecessarily costly to run. The chance to digitise and potentially automate this service area offers the opportunity to reduce cost, improve the carbon footprint and enhance the…

Digitising viability assessments to maximise affordable housing delivery

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: LB Hackney, LB Lambeth, LB Tower Hamlets, Huntingdonshire District Council, Greater London Authority, Future Cities Catapult

Status: Not funded

Themes: Housing/Planning

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 prototypes of data-driven tools that enhance the process Test these prototypes with users and stakeholders Demonstrate the technical feasibility of…

Information Technology Projects Financial Flows Integration

Council name: Colchester Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Brentwood Borough Council, Castle Point Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling

The majority of IT enhancements to business area improvements do not significantly consider the impact to Income Management and Finance Systems. All too often these areas end up with supplementary reports and manual processes which take up officer time and reduce department efficiency. Our proposal is to identify core financial flows…

Pathway to City Scale Data Sharing

Council name: Sheffield City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North East Lincolnshire Council, David Ferguson, [email protected]

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling, Local government as a platform

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 ‘why’ question; outlining many potential benefits and risks. The next stage for us is to understand how to take the…

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…

A Digital Service for Monitoring Affordable Housing Provision

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Fareham Borough Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, LB Hackney, Greater London Authority, Future Cities Catapult

Status: Not funded

Themes: Housing/Planning

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 to be able to better use data to make evidence-based and transparent decisions around the allocation and usage of affordable…

Housing Options for Older People

Council name: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Haringey, London Borough of Islington

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Care assessment, Directory of services, Housing/Planning

Local authorities have a duty to ensure that people can get the information and advice they need to make good decisions about care and support, including preventative measures such as attention to their home circumstances. Yet cost constraints, as well as lack of expertise, make this challenging. We want to…

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.…

Local Social Progress Index

Council name: London Borough Of Barking and Dagenham

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Redbridge

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling, Local government as a platform

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 need to be addressed. It is however, currently difficult to understand the differing pressures on communities in a spatial context…

Local review of gaps and opportunities for loneliness prevention

Council name: Cambridgeshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Huntingdonshire District Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Communities, Health and social care record

Loneliness is a universal public health issue that   impacts health and wellbeing (Nyqvist et al., 2016) and generates more demand for social care and health services. The problem that this project seeks to address is a lack of understanding of how and where our council should deploy interventions. Within…

Improving outcomes for vulnerable adults after hospital discharge

Council name: Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Optalis, Wokingham BC, AWS, Thought & Impact

Status: Not funded

Themes: Independent and assistive living

We are seeking to address a strategic priority of the Council Plan; to enable older residents and vulnerable adults to live independently & a strategic main theme of our Joint Health & Well Being Strategy; to enable residents to maximise their capabilities & life chances; specifically to improve the outcomes…

Open collaboration pipeline

Council name: London Borough of Hackney

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Hackney, GLA, Kingston and Sutton, Local gov digital

Status: Not funded

Themes: Local government as a platform

The structure of local and central government lends itself to public organisations working in silos to devise solutions to meet their own needs. This leads to huge inefficiencies through duplication of spending, lack of collaboration and sharing of knowledge. The vision for Pipeline is to develop an online tool that…

Intelligent Process Automation of Back Office services

Council name: Suffolk County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Suffolk County Council, Babergh District Council, Mid Suffolk District Council, East Suffolk Councils (Waveney and Suffolk Coastal), West Suffolk Councils (St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath), Norfolk County Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Local government as a platform

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 to introduce Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to deliver high and medium volume transactions that are of a simple or moderately…

Work with me - an accessible online platform for people with LD and their support networks

Council name: Cambridgeshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: LGSS, Peterborough City Council, Peterborough City College, Thera, Papworth Trust, Speak out council, Switch Now, Princes Trust

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Content management system, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Independent and assistive living

There are many problems to solve when it comes to helping people with Learning Disabilities (LD) and / or additional needs find employment.  The particular problems we are trying to solve with this bid are – people with LD don’t always know what options are available to them after education…