by Mevish Khalid | Jul 17, 2026 | Data Sharing, Data Standards, Interoperability, iStandUK News, Latest News, SAVVI
**This blog post was written by Nicholas Oughtibridge, Standards Specialist at Open Referral UK The Problem We Need to Solve Public services need to share information across organisational boundaries more than ever before. Local authorities, NHS organisations,...
by Mevish Khalid | Jun 26, 2026 | Community, Data Standards, Interoperability, iStandUK News, Latest News, Open Data, OpenReferralUK
**This blog post was written by Nicholas Oughtibridge, Standards Specialist at Open Referral UK The Open Referral Validator is a tool designed to help developers and data architects verify that their service directories strictly conform to the Open Referral standard....
by Mevish Khalid | Apr 22, 2026 | iStandUK News, Latest News
iStandUK has announced a significant strengthening of its leadership team and Executive Board as momentum builds nationally around improving the way public services share, use and standardise data. We are excited to announce a leadership transition at iStandUK. After...
by Mevish Khalid | Mar 12, 2026 | Data Standards, iStandUK News, Latest News
As local authorities, central government and public‑sector partners face unprecedented pressures to collaborate and innovate, iStandUK is positioning itself to play an even greater role in shaping the trusted, consistent and future‑ready data standards the sector now...
by Mevish Khalid | Jan 29, 2026 | Application of Standards, Latest News, Local Government, SAVVI
At SAVVI, we remain committed to one core principle: improving outcomes for vulnerable people through the responsible and effective reuse of data. While SAVVI will always be fundamentally a standards‑led initiative, the real value of those standards emerges only when...
