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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.

Optimising data usage to improve services to our communities

Council name: Leicester City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Milton Keynes Council, Canterbury City Council, Lambeth London Borough Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling

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 anticipate customer demands, target scarce resources to not so obvious areas in critical need, predict and prevent future adverse events…

Participative research examining how technology can extend the reach of active ageing services

Council name: North Somerset Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Status: Not funded

A full PDF of application with diagrams will be sent to [email protected] Across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) we have a growing population with the number of over 75’s growing by 31% by 2025. This will put an estimated additional £30m of pressure on the local health system…

Pathfinder integration of health and social care systems

Council name: Gateshead Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Northumberland County Council, Newcastle City Council, North Tyneside Council, South Tyneside Council, Hartlepool Borough Council, Durham County Council, Stockton Borough Council, Middlesbrough Council, Redcar & Cleveland Council, Sunderland Council, Darlington Borough Council, ADASS North East, Connected Health Cities/ Great North Care Record

Status: Not funded

Themes: Adult social care, Children services, Data standards sharing and modelling, Health and social care record

The 12 North East Councils wish to progress their digital ambitions by doing the necessary preparatory work to ensure our digital system architecture is ready to plumb into the regional HIE and social care clientele are fully informed about how we will share and use their data. Supported by ADASS,…

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…

Prototyping an OpenCommunity Data Service model

Council name: Buckinghamshire County Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Adur and Worthing Council, Leeds City Council and the London Borough of Croydon

Status: Funded

Our OpenCommunity Discovery found significant duplication of effort and cost in the provision of community based service information in local areas, as well as significant challenges around interoperability and usability.  Our report estimates that substantial savings across 160 upper tier councils could be made if these issues were addressed, totalling…

Reducing care calls to improve customer satisfaction

Council name: Birmingham City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Worcestershire County Council (Steven Medley), Solihull MBC (John Loughead)

Status: Funded

Themes: Adult social care, Artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, Care assessment, Digital skills and capability, Independent and assistive living

Adult Social Care provides home care support to over 7000 citizens who are vulnerable, frail and may suffer early signs of cognitive impairment.  Following guidance from the NICE, and Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) commitment to provide excellent services, BCC increased the duration of its care visits from 15 to 30…

Registration Services Data - unlocking Local Government opportunities

Council name: Worcestershire County Council (Worcestershire Office of Data Analytics will lead on behalf of all Worcestershire Public Sector Agencies)

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Worcestershire Registration Services, Wychavon District Council, Worcester City Council, Redditch Borough Council, Bromsgrove District Council, Malvern Hills District Council, Wyre Forest District Council, Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Service, West Mercia Police, Worcestershire NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trust, Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust, Hull City Council, Suffolk County Council.

Status: Funded

Themes: Adult social care, Care assessment, Change of address, Children services, Council tax, Data standards sharing and modelling, Health and social care record, Housing/Planning, Local government as a platform, Planning applications

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' is identifying for what purpose, how to share, and what are the business benefits of doing so. Objectives The existing…

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…

Scaling service design and agile methods to transform services

Council name: London Borough of Southwark

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Hackney Council, Croydon Council, Adur & Worthing Councils

Status: Not funded

Themes: Digital skills and capability

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 successes with design sprint and agile discovery projects utilising GDS’ methodology, however traditional council governance, culture and structure make it…

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…

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,…

Simple Sign On

Council name: Durham County Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Wirral Council, Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council, Hillingdon Council, Brighton and Hove City Council, Waltham Forrest Council, Rugby Council, Calderdale Council, Kirklees Council, Derby Council, Hambleton Council, North Devon Council, Cheshire East Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Single sign on

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 the ability to provide a simple and seamless authentication process across multiple case management systems is needed to make the…

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…

Strengthening Information Governance, Ethics and Data Standards

Council name: London Borough of Islington

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Surrey County Council, Kaleidoschope Ltd, Oxford Insights

Status: Not funded

Themes: Data standards sharing and modelling, Health and social care record

The ability to use data better has benefits for councils, their public sector partners, and citizens. However, as local government strives to make better use of data assets, issues of privacy, confidentiality, cybersecurity, and ethics emerge, particularly around data linkage, analytics, and the use of predictive models. For data linkage…

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…

Tell us once ‘move-in’ process

Council name: Sunderland City Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: North East Lincolnshire Council, Kirklees Borough Council, Watford Borough Council, Newcastle City Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Adult social care, Change of address, Children services, Communities, Council tax, Data standards sharing and modelling, Directory of services, Libraries, Local government as a platform, Parking, Waste, Website improvement

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 order to get everything they need when moving house. The current approach means a resident has to make multiple contacts and…

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…

Understanding digital exclusion and inclusion in Local Government

Council name: South Tyneside Council

Stage: Funding application – Discovery

Partners: Bedford Borough Council, Durham Council, Gateshead Borough Council, Sunderland City Council

Status: Not funded

Themes: Digital inclusion, Digital skills and capability

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 those services in ways that put users first. Existing data is often out of date, at local authority level, and…

Using Analytics and AI to Aid the Production of EHCPs

Council name: Ealing Council

Stage: Funding application – Alpha

Partners: Staffordshire county Council, and Suffolk Council

Status: Funded

Themes: Children services

Having ‘blueprinted’ the SEN Assessment process it is apparent that applying digital processes, analytics and AI that the production of Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) can be greatly enhanced. A new system would: Allow schools direct input and assessment of need. Allow and monitor assessments and be a single…

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…