FINANCE

Pensions data improvement drive

By Dan Peters | 30 May 2018

Local government pension schemes (LGPS) will be visited next week to be given advice on how to im...

DIGITAL

GDPR and you

By Jos Creese | 29 May 2018

Every council is a data-driven business. GDPR marks the starting line for better data management ...

HUMOUR

Click me baby one more time

25 May 2018

Everybody’s inboxes are currently packed with emails urging them to opt in, sign up or re-registe...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Evolution vs revolution

By Andy Begley | 22 May 2018

There is a data revolution coming, and Shropshire Council has embraced this to help improve local...

WHITEHALL

Dawes: Another Section 114 possible

By Dan Peters | 10 May 2018

Marsham Street's top official has told MPs she cannot give them a ‘categorical assurance’ there w...

DIGITAL

Data changes pose imminent challenge to every council

By Andrew Larner | 24 January 2018

The new General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in May this year – presenting yet ano...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Finance settlement 'shambles' after provisional data wrong

By Dan Peters | 18 January 2018

The local government finance settlement has descended into a shambles after it emerged allocation...

WHITEHALL

Accuracy of DTOC figures questioned

By Dan Peters | 29 November 2017

Senior adult social care leaders have raised concerns with government over the accuracy of the da...

BUSINESS

Gwynne urges rates relief data review

By Mark Conrad | 21 November 2017

Marsham Street’s plan to name and shame councils failing to deliver business rates relief has tur...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Blending public health strategy with data

By Gerrard Abi-Aad | 06 November 2017

Gerrard Abi-Aad explains how Kent CC's data strategies have helped to revolutionise the way the c...