Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Laying the foundations for the local public services of the future
This project, led by Birmingham City Council, will develop a platform to enable field workers to capture data to present casework in a consistent format, and to provide the ability to assign ‘risk markers’ to people or places.
More information, including outputs and working-in-the-open activities, will be published on this page as the project progresses. In the meantime, you can read the project application (Microsoft Word Doc) to find out more.
The project, led by Birmingham City Council, is awarded £350,000 of funding through Round 5 of the Local Digital Fund to conduct a beta phase.
The whole project team from Birmingham City Council joined members of the Local Digital team to talk through their journey to beta development, and their progress in the development of a ‘Guardian App’.
The team held their Sprint 7 Show and Tell on 21 Jan 2022. The 50+ attendees were given an update of their work and progress, and were shown a demonstration of the tool.
Their aim is to allow their 7000 field workers who work ‘on the ground’ to be able to, through their mobile phones:
The Show and Tell guides you through a caretaker’s user journey. These caretakers do health and safety inspections on council properties, including tower blocks and communal areas.
Through the use of the app, workers can assign themselves a job, inspect an area and add evidence such as photographs and videos to their report. At the moment, this is all paper based. This creates additional work for field workers and makes it difficult to assign and track inspections and jobs.
The project held a Show and Tell to share their progress from Sprints 8 and 9, as they are now 85% of the way to delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
During the Show and Tell, the team also talked about:
