UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Laying the foundations for better local public services
We will design safe, secure and useful ways of sharing information to build trust among our partners and citizens, to better support the most vulnerable members of our communities, and to target our resources more effectively.
Welcome to the Digital Planning Improvement Fund 2025/2026. This page provides essential guidance for Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) interested in applying for funding. Applications open on 26 June 2025. […]
Welcome to our digital citizen engagement toolkit which is designed to support local authorities (LAs) in using digital tools for improved consultations and engagement in planning. Developed with a user-centred […]
Join techUK as they put the spotlight on local government tech innovations, reflect on the digital trends of the past year and make their predictions for 2024.
This has been an important, madly busy week for our new Local Digital Collaboration Unit. In just a 2-week period, we received 389 unique expressions of interest in running collaborative Local Digital Fund projects from 171 organisations. Taking open to the whole next level, our next next task is to publish the whole lot on our website.
The Declaration was co-published with 45 organisations on 4 July 2018. This is our ambition for local public services, and our commitment to making it happen. We are a collective […]
In this blog post, we’ll share some reflections from our first roadshow, which visited 5 cities across the UK throughout June and July. The events aimed to inform our plans […]
It’s notoriously difficult to scale innovation around the local public sector. Technology designed for one local authority doesn’t just slide neatly into another, because council systems speak different languages and […]
