In October 2010, the Government announced plans to abolish, merge or substantially reform hundreds of public bodies. These organisations hold huge amounts of unpublished data, in some cases going back many years. Taken together, this amounts to an enormous wealth …
The Local Public Data Panel is an independent panel that exists to promote and facilitate the release of public data. The Panel has played a key role in providing advice on the publication of fine grained and timely local authority …
This is the Local Public Data Panel's final response to the Home Office consultation for which we posted the draft a short while ago. Thank you to everyone who gave comments. Local Public Data Panel response to the Home Office …
This is a draft of the Panel's response. The final response has now been published and sent to the Home Office. The Home Office is consulting about proposals for elected Police and Crime Commissioners to hold UK police forces to …
We've had some great feedback on our draft guidance on publishing local government spend data both on the blog post and in conversation with practitioners. We hope to improve the guidance soon. The role of data standards has come up …
You may have been wondering what the Panel has been up to since our last post. We were restricted in what we could post during the election period, and in addition the Panel meeting scheduled for 20 April had to …
One of the Panel's members, Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal.com, has been working hard on a new project to make May local election results available as open data. The Open Election project offers an opportunity to substantially enhance public access to local election results data, allowing it to be easily identified and reused within a variety of contexts.
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