Southwark Council
From our discovery, we identified council tenants’ and leaseholders’ user needs and barriers for going online to report and book a repair and that a common service pattern for online […]
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Laying the foundations for the local public services of the future
From our discovery, we identified council tenants’ and leaseholders’ user needs and barriers for going online to report and book a repair and that a common service pattern for online […]
All local authorities need to manage their finances through income management (IM) and reconciliation processes: matching expected income against actual income allocating actual income to paying users’ accounts (for example, […]
HMLR Local Land Charges (LLC) project aims to streamline the LLC ‘service’. Its scope did not include the second element of the current service i.e. provision of replies to questions, which […]
Problem Statement At Newcastle City Council we have adopted an agile approach to developing digital services for our customers. We don’t, however, have a consistent process to receive, analyse and […]
NHS Choices estimate that over the next 17 years more than 16 million of us will be over the age of 65. With less money available and increasing demand, adult […]
The processes within B&NES Bereavement Services for burials, cremations and memorialisations are inefficient and outdated meaning the service is unable to maximise income generating opportunities. A discovery project would uncover […]
All local planning authorities face a common problem in terms of significant numbers of the applications found to be invalid. This is frustrating for service users and an unnecessary cost […]
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 […]
This project aims to address rising homelessness affecting councils across the UK. We would like to see how this can be controlled and prevented through early intervention. Our vision is […]
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 […]