Invitation to SAVVI Leadership

“Can you help us to improve how we find and support vulnerable people?” – asks Phil Swan, Chief Digital Officer at Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Finding and supporting vulnerable people is a key issue for the public sector. Be it supported families,...

National Progress in Tackling Homelessness

This blog has been cross-posted from the iNetwork Website and was written by Tom Hindmarch.   On the 1st March iNetwork attended the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) event, “Delivering Together to End Rough Sleeping”. Rough sleeping and...

SAVVI in Partnership

SAVVI stands for Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability, a project funded by DLUHC Local Digital Fund that is delivered by iStandUK and iNetwork, two local public sector programmes hosted by Tameside Council. The ultimate vision for the project is...

A BOLD Programme shares SAVVI Objectives

The MoJ has recently announced a new programme: Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD). This national programme is backed by £20 million of investment, to improve the connectedness of government data so that policy-makers and those working on the frontline of UK...

Diving Deeper with the Tech Industry

From a SAVVI perspective, we are keen to understand how (and the extent to which) the SAVVI data standards and model that we have come up with over recent months could be usefully adopted by the tech industry. We are not under the illusion that we know best; afterall,...