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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.

Single unified communications technology implementation for multiple partners

Council name: Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, Melton Borough Council, Blaby District Council, Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, Leicestershire Revenues and Benefits Partnership

Status: Not funded

Themes: Change of address, Content management system, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Local government as a platform

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 considering the market place, procuring and implementing a new solution. This work has identified the opportunity for modern telephony, unified…

Brownfield Land Digital Developer Tool

Council name: Gateshead Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Southwark

Status: Not funded

Themes: Housing/Planning

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 develop a digital tool which is scalable to the extent that it could potentially be adopted by every local planning…

A 'Digital Tool' for all Planning Functions

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Brent Council, Tower Hamlets Council, Lewisham Council, Ealing Council, Westminster City Council, Gateshead Council, Lambeth Council, Waltham Forest Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Planning applications, Website improvement

The problem is that the planning service is provided by a number of out of date systems and processes that are not linked together. This provides a confusing, chaotic, opaque system that does not work for service providers and users. There is no tool for this and there is no roadmap…

Supporting and connecting people using Artificial Intelligence

Council name: Suffolk County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Norfolk County Council, Service Robotics

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Independent and assistive living

The problem that we intend to address is whether we can support and connect people with social care needs through the use of personal AI devices. The capabilities of these devices to augment and enhance our lives is almost limitless, and their value is being proven by the dramatic uptake…

Community connectivity social action platform

Council name: London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Uscreates, Bronze Labs, London borough of Westmisnter,Shropshire County Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital inclusion, Directory of services, Local government as a platform

In the Alpha phase, we seek to address the questions: How do we build connection at a hyper-local level? How do we enable interactivity with conveners across the system? We will respond by adapting an existing technology, Tribe™ https://www.tribeproject.org/, which has been designed to address inequality of care provision, to…

Shared pattern and process library for local government

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Adur & Worthing Councils, Devon County Council, Birmingham City Council, LocalGov Digital, iStandUK, Croyden Council, Brent Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Local government as a platform

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 all delivering similar services, often to meet the same statutory requirement. Whilst it’s impossible to quantify the cost of duplication,…

Creating design patterns for pest control services

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Croydon

Status: Not funded

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 design these workflows and interfaces. Croydon, working with Southwark, propose to develop and publish a set of design patterns for…

Social prescription

Council name: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: London Borough of Sutton

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Communities, Data standards sharing and modelling, Directory of services, Homelessness, Independent and assistive living

By utilising physical and digital interactions to offer human-centred support before needs become critical we could save money on expensive high-need treatments and also ensure our population is happier, healthier and more socially active (win-win). Social Prescription programmes are becoming more prevalent in the UK. Whether a model will succeed…

HIVE Digital Innovation

Council name: Portsmouth City Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Hampshire County Council, Gosport Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Chatbots, Children services, Communities, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Directory of services, Homelessness, Independent and assistive living, Libraries

The fundamental issue to address as part of the project is to produce a one-stop-shop of all services across the city. Currently there are multiple databases and multiple service providers, from the statutory & voluntary sectors, often providing overlapping services. Equally residents and patients currently need to have an understanding…

Norfolk and Waveney STP Hosiptal and Care Home Bed Flow tracker

Council name: Norfolk County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Norfolk and Waveney STP, N&N University Hospital

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Health and social care record

The key objective of the project/programme is to help local people with health and care needs to get access to available beds without unnecessary delays and to save local public-sector money in the process. Norfolk County Council are leading the development of a full system wide Bed Management Tracker primarily…

White Label - Council Website

Council name: Leeds City Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Hackney

Status: Not funded

Themes: Local government as a platform

Web site and service design is a resource intensive and costly exercise across local authorities. Many authorities lack resources to do the work in house, relying on third party suppliers and products to plug the gaps. Providing standardised and thoroughly tested user interface designs considerably lowers the barriers for in-house…

Scaling ADASS East Region’s adult social care provider assessment & market management solution

Council name: North West ADASS

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: North West ADASS, Gateshead Council, Kent County Council, HAS Technology Group, ADASS East

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Data standards sharing and modelling

All 152 Local Authorities with Adult Social Care responsibilities are required to ensure they operate a sustainable, high-quality market for their local population, with efficient operation of all adult social care. The Care Act 2014 sets out the law around market development in adult social care. It enshrines in legislation…

Self-service Digital Care Needs Assessment

Council name: Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Nottinghamshire, Harrow, Stockton

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Care assessment, Directory of services

Adult social care (ASC) is currently one of the most analogue and expensive services that councils deliver. The Care Act increased the pressure particularly around assessments and with an ageing population this vital service will continue to feel the strain, and struggle if left unchanged. Responsible officers across the country…

Joining Up Telehealth, Telecare and Tecnology Enabled Care

Council name: Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucestershire Care Services, Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust, Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Care assessment, Children services, Communities, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Health and social care record, Housing/Planning, Independent and assistive living, Website improvement

Within Gloucestershire we have many silo'ed services that all have the joint aim of increasing independence, mobility and safety within the home and community.  We want to join these up to not only improve the outcomes of the individuals through the shared learning of each service but also remove the duplication…

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…

Consistent Recording of Fly Tipping to Support Service Delivery Efficiencies

Council name: Kirklees Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Data standards sharing and modelling, Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability, Housing repairs, Waste, Website improvement

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 manage fly tipping.  Whilst all Council’s will have an Environmental team that will investigate and prosecute on fly tip reports,…

Making Access to the Council Tax Support Scheme Easier

Council name: North East Lincolnshire Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North Lincolnshire Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Council tax

Council Tax Support (CTS) is a discount thats treat as a benefit for application purposes. Each LA scheme & household contribution levels is different. Discussions within the wider council tax community note LAs are nervous to be 1st to make changes to their local scheme, in part due to high…

Emergency Planning Digital Process Design

Council name: Basildon Borough Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Chelmsford City Council, Colchester Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Communities, Digital inclusion, Directory of services, Local government as a platform, Microsoft and CRM products

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 risk, plan and exercise for emergencies, ensuring business continuity and warning and informing the public during an emergency. Local authorities…

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…

Move In Move Out - Tell us once

Council name: Leeds City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Kirklees MC, Cheshire East Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Change of address

Citizens move home between different local authorities and as part of this process they are required to inform each local authority involved of changes required to the services they and their family need. Characteristics of the family members moving home and their prevailing situations are widely dispersed, families which access…