Innovative and successful stories of data analytics in local authorities were shared by our LIFT Dashboard clients at our recent steering group. Read more.
A visit to Croydon Council’s award winning Community Connect/Food Stop
Croydon Council’s Community Connect/Food Stop initiative is shortlisted for an LGC Award 2019. Jade Alsop goes behind the scenes at Community Connect/Food Stop and looks at the successes achieved to date.
How data and design can tackle homelessness: Luton case study
Policy in Practice and Uscreates are working with Luton Borough Council to show how data and design can tackle homelessness.
Big Issue founder leads Policy in Practice discussion on preventing vulnerability
Policy in Practice’s third Leading Lights Network event was sponsored by Lord Bird, founder of the Big Issue, and held at the House of Lords. The theme was preventing vulnerability, with a particular focus on the Homelessness Reduction Act. Read this summary of what was discussed.
Using data to fight poverty in the UK
Some local authorities are targeting their support programmes using data to fight poverty, wrote Deven Ghelani and Jane Mansour in this article for the CPI.