Blog posts

Get to know the team members supporting councils through their CAF journey and find out how we’ve helped councils build their resilience.

The cyber threat to local government is real, increasing, and evolving. Four years into the Cyber Support programme, we’re sharing insights from our cyber work.

We explore why shared digital approaches are so important, barriers to standardisation, and how councils are making them work.

We are launching a discovery phase to explore how One Login could benefit local government.

Tom Smith highlights the push for AI adoption, digital transformation and cyber resilience in councils.

The Warning, Advice and Reporting Point (WARP) meetings bring together information security, assurance, and governance practitioners from local government.

Our social housing data community will tackle some of the biggest data challenges in the sector.

The adoption of the ORUK data standard continues to increase. Here’s a look at the progress so far and what’s to come.

Find out about our work to explore solutions to the data challenges faced by the social housing sector.

We’ve brought together a group of changemakers to drive the implementation of the Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standard across local government.

Local Digital have made additional investments in data standards to ensure they scale and reach their full potential, but we want to go further.

The pilot enabled us to gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for digital transformation in local government.

In this blog post, we’ll provide an update on our work to develop the CAF and share how your council can start getting ready.

We’re pleased to announce an ambitious 3 year plan for the Open Referral UK (ORUK) data standard that could potentially deliver millions of pounds in annual savings.

We reflect on our progress and share our plans to adapt our approach to take on a more strategic role as a ‘steward’.

Read some of the interesting findings from our independent evaluation of the Local Digital programme to understand the impact and value-for-money of the support we offer to local government.

In this blog post, we want to outline the challenges we’ve identified with the cohort and invite you to share your feedback and experiences.

This month marks a key milestone for the Local Digital Declaration as it reaches its fifth anniversary, and we’ll be celebrating throughout July.

Following the success of last year’s Executive Education Programme in Digital Transformation for UK Local Government, we decided to run the programme again.

We’re pleased to announce the 17 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund.