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London: Boost safeguarding through multi-agency data sharing The responsibility to safeguard vulnerable residents lies with councils and a range of safeguarding partners, but too often vulnerability is identified too late. Limited data co-ordination between organisations makes it hard to identify people who need support before they hit a crisis and to also understand whether they are known to other safeguarding agencies and the wider safeguarding landscape. Prevention is critical to improving safeguarding and we know that data needs to be more effectively shared across agencies if we are to better protect vulnerable people and reduce the potential of people falling into the social care system. This is a big challenge. Join our meeting to hear learnings from a powerful project, backed by the LGA and NHS Digital, to link data across adult services, children's services, public health, the NHS, Police and Fire and Rescue Services. Join us to hear: - How this innovative and ground-breaking approach to combining administrative datasets has created a clear view of safeguarding concerns across all partners - How new smart approaches to data management have tackled the security and data governance challenges - How the data is brought to life to help multi-agency safeguarding teams, social workers and other frontline safeguarding teams improve communication, liaison and decision making With guest speaker Paul Withers, Data Protection Manager, Walsall Council.	21/9/2021j/n/Y	10:00 BST2021-09-21T09:00:00ZH:i T	2 hours	Register
How Autumn’s income shocks will hit low income families The factors that have kept many low-income families out of poverty in the past year are changing, meaning many thousands will be worse off. Families are set to be hit by big income shocks with the ending of furlough, the reintroduction of the Minimum Income Floor, the loss of the £20 a week Universal Credit increase and the ending of the Benefit Cap's grace period. New data analysis from Policy in Practice predicts significant losses for some families who will struggle to cope and who will need the support of frontline organisations to help them through. In this webinar we will explore what the Autumn may bring for low-income households and how support organisations can work now to prevent hardship and prepare for an increased demand for services. Join this webinar to learn: - How much different households are set to lose when Covid supports are withdrawn - What support tools are available for individuals and organisations - Best practice advice from a frontline organisation We will be joined by Monica Kaur from the Money and Pensions Service.	29/9/2021j/n/Y	10:30 BST2021-09-29T09:30:00ZH:i T	1.3 hours	Register
How Kent County and district councils collaborate with data to tackle poverty Covid has turned our world upside down. Many residents in Kent, as elsewhere, have experienced financial hardship whilst, for organisations, the pandemic has been the catalyst energising them to work differently. In summer 2020 Kent Districts and Communities Recovery Cell set up a group to focus support to residents at risk or already experiencing financial hardship because of the pandemic. Residents unused to facing financial hardship suddenly needed help to navigate support and advice systems. The group knew that things are likely to get worse for Kent's residents before they get better as furlough ends and families who were just about managing are tipped over the edge. In a first for local government, Kent county and district councils have boldly chosen to collaboratively share their data to get powerful cross-county insights that will drive their poverty prevention activity. The information will help them to target of a wide range of campaigns to residents such as employment support, free school meal take-up, public health interventions, housing initiatives and benefits take up. Importantly, the project has transparency built in so that councils can very easily benchmark with each other to identify and share best practice in a safe, collaborative way. Join this webinar to hear: - Kent County Council's vision for greater collaborative working with districts - Maidstone District Council's drivers for districts to collaborate with their data - Folkestone and Hythe District Council's impact achieved so far from data-led poverty prevention campaigns We will be joined by guest speakers, Zena Cooke, Corporate Director Finance at Kent County Council, Steve McGinnes, Director of Mid Kent Services at Maidstone District Council, and Jane Worrel, Revenues and Benefits Senior Specialist at Folkestone and Hythe District Council.	20/10/2021j/n/Y	10:30 BST2021-10-20T09:30:00ZH:i T	1.3 hours	Register

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London: Boost safeguarding through multi-agency data sharing The responsibility to safeguard vulnerable residents lies with councils and a range of safeguarding partners, but too often vulnerability is identified too late.

Limited data co-ordination between organisations makes it hard to identify people who need support before they hit a crisis and to also understand whether they are known to other safeguarding agencies and the wider safeguarding landscape.

Prevention is critical to improving safeguarding and we know that data needs to be more effectively shared across agencies if we are to better protect vulnerable people and reduce the potential of people falling into the social care system. This is a big challenge.

Join our meeting to hear learnings from a powerful project, backed by the LGA and NHS Digital, to link data across adult services, children's services, public health, the NHS, Police and Fire and Rescue Services.

Join us to hear:

- How this innovative and ground-breaking approach to combining administrative datasets has created a clear view of safeguarding concerns across all partners
- How new smart approaches to data management have tackled the security and data governance challenges
- How the data is brought to life to help multi-agency safeguarding teams, social workers and other frontline safeguarding teams improve communication, liaison and decision making

With guest speaker Paul Withers, Data Protection Manager, Walsall Council.

21/9/2021

10:00 BST

2 hours

How Autumn’s income shocks will hit low income families The factors that have kept many low-income families out of poverty in the past year are changing, meaning many thousands will be worse off.

Families are set to be hit by big income shocks with the ending of furlough, the reintroduction of the Minimum Income Floor, the loss of the £20 a week Universal Credit increase and the ending of the Benefit Cap's grace period. New data analysis from Policy in Practice predicts significant losses for some families who will struggle to cope and who will need the support of frontline organisations to help them through.

In this webinar we will explore what the Autumn may bring for low-income households and how support organisations can work now to prevent hardship and prepare for an increased demand for services.

Join this webinar to learn:

- How much different households are set to lose when Covid supports are withdrawn
- What support tools are available for individuals and organisations
- Best practice advice from a frontline organisation

We will be joined by Monica Kaur from the Money and Pensions Service.

29/9/2021

10:30 BST

1.3 hours

How Kent County and district councils collaborate with data to tackle poverty Covid has turned our world upside down. Many residents in Kent, as elsewhere, have experienced financial hardship whilst, for organisations, the pandemic has been the catalyst energising them to work differently.

In summer 2020 Kent Districts and Communities Recovery Cell set up a group to focus support to residents at risk or already experiencing financial hardship because of the pandemic. Residents unused to facing financial hardship suddenly needed help to navigate support and advice systems. The group knew that things are likely to get worse for Kent's residents before they get better as furlough ends and families who were just about managing are tipped over the edge.

In a first for local government, Kent county and district councils have boldly chosen to collaboratively share their data to get powerful cross-county insights that will drive their poverty prevention activity. The information will help them to target of a wide range of campaigns to residents such as employment support, free school meal take-up, public health interventions, housing initiatives and benefits take up.

Importantly, the project has transparency built in so that councils can very easily benchmark with each other to identify and share best practice in a safe, collaborative way.

Join this webinar to hear:

- Kent County Council's vision for greater collaborative working with districts
- Maidstone District Council's drivers for districts to collaborate with their data
- Folkestone and Hythe District Council's impact achieved so far from data-led poverty prevention campaigns

We will be joined by guest speakers, Zena Cooke, Corporate Director Finance at Kent County Council, Steve McGinnes, Director of Mid Kent Services at Maidstone District Council, and Jane Worrel, Revenues and Benefits Senior Specialist at Folkestone and Hythe District Council.

20/10/2021

10:30 BST

1.3 hours

How to support vulnerable people through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis

Together with RedQuadrant we discussed how to support vulnerable people through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in our recent webinar.

Lessons learned: our year modelling Council Tax Reduction Schemes

We share 4 trends we’ve seen from modelling 150+ council tax reduction schemes in 2019 and discuss why discount schemes will be popular in the future.

11 local authorities share their data analytics stories at our July LIFT Dashboard steering group

Innovative and successful stories of data analytics in local authorities were shared by our LIFT Dashboard clients at our recent steering group. Read more.

Aster and Homes for Haringey speak at our July Benefit and Budgeting Calculator steering group

Our Benefit and Budgeting Calculator steering group met again in July to hear about best practice from users and new developments from us. Read more.

How Curo triages support to help customers onto Universal Credit

Emma Owens, (Acting) Head of Lettings, Curo discusses how their triage approach to support sees them focusing 80% of their time on 20% of customers, and how our Benefit and Budgeting Calculator helps.

How frontline organisations can prepare for Universal Credit managed migration

Hear guest speakers Michelle Birley and Nadine Burns, The Guinness Group, discussing the Universal Credit managed migration pilot and how Guinness is preparing.

Using data analytics to understand child vulnerability

Haroon Chowdry, Head of Analysis, Children’s Commissioner’s Office, joined us to discuss how benefits data can help us understand child vulnerability. We shared findings from analysis we did for the CCO on the impact that welfare reforms will have.

Council tax support models that Members can sign up to

Hear guest speaker Allan Clark, Barnet Council, in conversation with Zoe Charlesworth and Megan Mclean, Policy in Practice. As Universal Credit rolls out, we ask how should councils change their council tax reduction schemes, in order to protect their most vulnerable residents?

LIFT Dashboard User Group: 5 new ways to support vulnerable households

Leading local authorities joined our LIFT Dashboard user group to share how their data analytics work supports vulnerable residents. Read about projects that are driven by insights from their household level datasets.

Data analytics: Who’s missing out on benefits in your area?

Listen back to this webinar to hear guest speaker Corin Hammersley, Royal Borough of Greenwich, explain how they identified £20 million of unclaimed benefits for residents using a Policy in Practice LIFT Dashboard.

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