See the LIFT platform in action

View a short demo of how local authorities combine their datasets with our policy engine to make better decisions

In this short demo of the LIFT Platform, we look at how councils can identify residents who are financially vulnerable; how they can proactively target support to them and how they can track their journey over time.

View the demo to see how councils identify:

people affected by changes to Universal Credit and the benefit cap
households that have been made newly vulnerable by the COVID-19 pandemic
households that don’t have any financial resilience
trends that bring households to this place
benefit and support take up

The demo also shows how councils can reach out to individual households identified by LIFT and, using our Better Off Calculator, a personal review of the family’s income and expenditure can uncover ways to boost financial resilience.

Identify vulnerability

Proactively target support

Track progress over time

Features of the LIFT Platform

Administrative datasets can yield powerful insights that give a fuller picture, and help drive change. LIFT allows local authorities to combine their datasets with our policy engine to make better decisions.

You can see how individual households are impacted by policy changes, now and in the future. Use the information to identify the most vulnerable families, target support to them, and track the change.

Online, interactive, cloud based dashboard
Ability to export data into MS Excel
Quarterly refreshed data
Scope for tailored development
Ability to set different access levels for specific groups
Training and support

Functions of the LIFT Platform

Explore your data over time

Reveal poverty trends across your low income households. Track the prospects of households and see which support activities are working best. Identify people in danger of crisis before it hits. Plan and forecast strategic and operational activity proactively to prevent hardship. All of this is achieved via a bespoke LIFT dashboard.

Give visibility to those who need to know

Explain the complex picture of reforms to Cabinet and show Members who in their ward is affected by reforms. See the situation of households you rarely engage with.

Proactively target limited support budgets

Target support to people who need it most now and uncover hidden pockets of poverty. Identify families who are struggling and who’ve never engaged with you before. Get recommendations for action from policy experts.

Predictive analysis helps plan for the future

Develop your ability to carry out powerful predictive analysis by tracking households over time. Create evidence to show the impact, or otherwise, of your support interventions.

Make smarter decisions, faster

The ability to drill-down from a local authority level to ward level, right down to individual households leads to better strategic decisions, and the ability to implement them operationally.

Reveal drivers of living standards in your area

Dissect your data yourself. Compare impacts by location, by vulnerable groups, by tenure or other factors you need. View sub groups, such as those in arrears or those at risk of financial crisis.

Inspirational stories from clients using
the LIFT Platform

Data analytics using the LIFT platform allows Haringey Council to identify vulnerable residents, target relevant support and track changes in living standards. The corporate board identified that people, culture and processes can be a barrier to the wider use of data.

LIFT helped Haringey Council to improve the financial resilience of carers. It also helped the council by tackling both the data challenge, and the people, processes and culture challenge that Haringey and many other councils face. The financial return was over £560,000 to residents and over £162,000 to the council.

Each household helped by the campaign was better off by almost £37,000 in total, or £7,534 per year for five years.

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