National Data for Local Services Workshop

How much time does your team spend manually updating, verifying and maintaining local service directories?

Across local government, directories for Family Information Services, SEND Local Offers and Adult Social Care rely heavily on external data from organisations like the NHS, Ofsted, CQC and national charities. Yet, too often, individual councils are forced to independently gather and quality-assure the exact same datasets creating duplication of effort and risking outdated information for residents.

Join us online for the National Data for Local Services Workshop, on Tuesday 18 August, open to anyone working in the public sector. This interactive workshop will examine which national datasets councils depend on every day, where data gaps, quality issues and duplicated work occur, which services would benefit from standardised, national data feeds and how Open Referral UK can simplify data flows.

Whether you work in directory services, content and information, data and service or frontline referral teams, this session is designed for local government professionals who work directly with service information. Find out more information and register for a ticket to attend.

If you would like to get involved in our wider work, find out more, or ask any questions,

you can email us at - hello@openreferraluk.org.

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Thanks @Mevish-iStandUK .

I urge any UK council officers responsible for maintaining information about services that appear in directories and are used for referrals to attend this workshop.

Essentially it’s about understanding what information about services we do (or could/should) take from central sources for referencing in local datasets. That includes information from central government sources (NHS, Ofsted, etc) and from voluntary community and faith sector organisations.

We want to build a case for making it easier to get such data into local directories rather than councils have to rekey it or just miss important services.