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Troubled Families and the Digital Economy Bill
Posted by:
Sarah Henry, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data Sharing, Government Data Programme, Making better use of data, Policy, Public Service
Sarah Henry, GM Connect, Manchester City Council Life is complicated; for some, extremely so. Although no two stories are alike, there are some tell-tale signs that individuals or families are struggling. Imagine poverty and hardship, struggle paying bills and rent …
Data Science Accelerator - the Sheffield 'hub'
Part of my role leading DWP’s Sheffield data science team is working on the Data Science Accelerator scheme with GDS. We’ve now run two successful cohorts from here, and I’m looking forward to continuing with this success as the programme …
Comparing registers with other data products
Previously, we described some technical features needed to support the creation of registers. When we talk about the technical details, we often get asked whether a register is like a particular data technology such as a relational database, a graph …
Technical features of a register
On the registers team, we are building a product that provides teams with data that is good enough to build services on. Registers are defined by certain characteristics such as being live data and being the only authoritative list for a …
Meet the custodian of the beta local authority England register
We’re pleased to announce that the local authority England register has been released to beta! In this guest post the register’s custodian, Stephen McAllister, shares his experience of going through the register creation process and responding to the feedback received …
How registers emerge
The Registers Design Authority is a small team focused on building a service to help quickly establish open registers across government. Like any digital team, we need to understand our users and how best to meet their needs. Our primary …
What we’ve learnt so far about how users find and use data
We recently shared what we've learned so far about how government data is published. This has already helped us think about how we can improve the way we do this, but we still want to know more about users at …
Open data, open working, open government
Last month the Open Government Partnership (OGP) celebrated its fifth birthday in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. It was an exciting milestone for an organisation which has grown over five short years from an ambitious …
Introducing the register history page: tracking a register’s creation
A few months ago, we published some guidance on GOV.UK that explains how registers are created. We did this to meet what was a previously unfulfilled user need. We often come across people who collect, manage or store data for …
Meet the custodian: alpha territory register
A few weeks ago, the Department for Communities and Local Government’s local authority England register was released to alpha. Hot on the heels of that, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) second register - the territory register - is now …
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