The Local Digital team

Building confidence and expertise in local government for successful digital transformation

The Local Digital team, 21 April 2022 - Local Digital, Local Digital Declaration, Local Digital Fund, Local Digital Team, Local Digital Training

In the Local Digital Declaration, we outline our commitment to ‘creating the conditions for genuine organisational transformation to happen’. A key element of this is ensuring there are the training courses, knowledge sharing, and communities of practice, needed to create …

Exciting next steps for Local Digital and Cyber

The Local Digital team, 22 March 2022 - Cyber, Local Digital, Local Digital Declaration, Local Digital Fund, Local Digital Team

The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backed by multi-year funding to the tune of £85 million.

We’re awarding funding to 9 projects through Round 5 of the Local Digital Fund

The Local Digital team, 16 November 2021 - Local Digital, Local Digital Fund

Today we’re pleased to announce the 9 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through Round 5 of the Local Digital Fund. The aim of the Local Digital Fund is to help councils transform their digital services in line …

How our training offer is supporting local government with day-to-day working

The Local Digital team, 18 October 2021 - Local Digital, Local Digital Training

It’s been seven months since we launched an online library of training courses to support our local government colleagues to develop their digital skills while working remotely. In that time, we’ve had 218 applications from people working in more than …

Round 5 of the Local Digital Fund is now open

The Local Digital team, 6 September 2021 - Local Digital, Local Digital Fund

We’re thrilled to announce that the Local Digital Fund is open for applications from council-led digital projects in its fifth round of funding. In this latest open round, we’re inviting local authorities to submit proposals for alpha and beta projects …

MHCLG launch two beta products in a first step towards digital planning reform

The Local Digital team, 30 June 2021 - Digital Planning, Local Digital

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a private beta of two new council-led digital planning products, funded by MHCLG’s Local Digital Fund. This is an exciting step towards 21st Century digital planning systems that use data and human-centred design …

The Cyber Support team’s technical remediation and support activities

The Local Digital team, 18 March 2021 - Cyber, Local Digital

During the cyber security discovery last year, we identified five areas of opportunity for MHCLG to support councils in improving their cyber health. One of these areas was technical remediation: providing support to councils identified through the survey on mitigating …

Kicking off the Cyber Health Framework Alpha phase

The Local Digital team, 2 March 2021 - Cyber, Local Digital

In June 2020 the Local Digital Cyber team completed a discovery into cyber security at local authorities. We found that: There are many cyber standards, but no clear baseline. An effective cyber baseline must encompass culture, leadership and ‘cyber first’ …

Creating a more flexible funding model for the Local Digital Fund

The Local Digital team, 17 February 2021 - Local Digital, Local Digital Fund, Local Digital Team

Since 2018, the Local Digital Collaboration Unit (LDCU) has funded 35 projects through multiple phases of work and across five rounds of funding - including our relatively recent C-19 Challenge. Through the Local Digital Fund, we’ve given out nearly £5 …

A look back at Local Digital in 2020

The Local Digital team, 11 January 2021 - Local Digital, Local Digital Declaration, Local Digital Fund, Local Digital Team

In the year that the Local Digital movement turned two years old, we saw some huge shifts as a team and as a department. Although COVID-19 response dominated our focus in 2020, there were also plenty of positive developments and …

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