Funding Service: why combining self-service with a human touch works best for grant teams 

What we mean by guided self-service  In the world of designing and launching new funds, guided self-...

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My experience on the Summer Internship Programme in MHCLG 

A career in MHCLG Digital is open to everyone regardless of their background. The Civil Service Summ...

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Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge 

Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider se...

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Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems

Complex problems  Most of the problems that today’s governments are trying to address are complex. I...

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Setting the foundations for effective data use in local government

In this blog post, we share the insights behind our approach to scaling data standards and an update...

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From Homes for Ukraine to community building: my journey as a business analyst Fast Streamer

I’m Luke and I’m a business analyst in my first year of the ‘Digital, Data Technology and Cyber’ Fas...

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Delivering at pace: introducing Common Tools as a Service

For the past 18 months, my team and I have been leading a new initiative at MHCLG called Common Tool...

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Exploring the use of artificial intelligence to streamline the planning process

Planning documents often contain vast amounts of valuable information, but accessing and using this ...

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Unlocking collaboration: new ways of working in our delivery community of practice

Delivery managers are accountable for the delivery of products and services. Due to the dynamic and ...

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Applying user ecosystem thinking in Funding Service Design

In DLUHC’s Funding Service Design team, we design ways to improve the user experience of applying fo...

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Join the Funding Service Design team

DLUHC’s Funding Service Design team is improving DLUHC’s funding service – we are redesigning key el...

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Join us at our virtual Digital Recruitment Days and explore your next career move

Do you work in engineering, user research or interaction design, and are looking for a rewarding and...

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Scaling data standards to support local government

One major challenge councils face is unconnected technology solutions that can’t share data with eac...

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A foot in the Digital Front Door: expanding digital thinking in policy-making

In this post, Greg Winfield, Head of User-Centred Policy Design at DLUHC, talks about how adding use...

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Future Councils Pilot insights: Common challenges to digital transformation in local government

The aim of Future Councils was to understand the conditions required for councils to become modern a...

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Developing a service to assess and understand cyber resilience in local government

The DLUHC Local Digital team is supporting councils in England to build their cyber resilience. Thro...

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Funding Service Design: Using content design to reduce the burden on applicants

In September 2022, I started on a new project as a content designer in the Funding Service Design te...

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Transforming digital services for councils through our Round 6 projects 

We’re pleased to announce the 16 council-led digital projects that will be awarded funding through R...

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Future Councils: Meet our 8 pilot councils

We are delighted to announce the councils that will be taking part in the pilot of Future Councils -...

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DLUHC Housing and Planning Minister visits Buckinghamshire Council to see new Digital Planning software in action

DLUHC Housing and Planning Minister, Lucy Frazer alongside Councillor Martin Tett, Leader of Bucking...

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Local Digital: 2022 in review

Local Digital is on a mission to bring together everyone required to make excellent local public ser...

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Continuous Data Assurance Helps to Make Better Services

In September 2020, the Energy Performance of Buildings Register Find an energy certificate service w...

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The 12 Milestones of DLUHC Digital Planning 2022

There may not be any partridges or pear trees in sight as we reach the end of 2022, but the DLUHC Di...

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DLUHC continues to support Local Planning Authorities to scale the adoption of digital citizen engagement tools

The PropTech Engagement Fund continues to build on its success as we launch the next round of fundin...

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Insights from the Cyber Assessment Framework for Local Government pilot

In September 2022, the DLUHC Local Digital team kicked off a pilot with a cohort of councils to expl...

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The Planning Software Improvement Fund is open for applications

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)'s ambition to improve local authori...

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Future Councils: Delivering pathways for councils to become modern and resilient organisations

We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open to join the pilot of Future Councils. Fut...

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PropTech sector wants to help deliver Housing and Planning ambitions

Screenshot of attendees at the PropTech Roundtable In the summer the DLUHC Digital Planning team hel...

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Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund is open for applications

We’re excited to announce that Round 6 of the Local Digital Fund is now open for applications from c...

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