[View the full Beyond Benefits report here] Late last year, Dom blogged about a project that we were kicking off with Lewes District Council to look at how they and their partners might be able to help people who are struggling financially, particularly in the light of upcoming welfare changes. We’ve spent an insightful couple [...]
In our first major step into working with local public services outside of the UK, Patchwork will be launching in Australia over coming months, kicking off a pilot with a consortium of councils thanks to our partners MAV (or Municipal Association of Victoria) and a number of local councils. Originally designed with frontline practitioners in [...]
Whether you’re on the sharp end of change, implementing that change or just reading about it in the news, you’ll no doubt be aware there’s a huge shift coming in the way benefits are delivered. I’ll leave you to try and understand the complexity of change for yourselves (here’s something to get you started), but [...]
Councillor Camp is coming! Councillor Camp will be a free day-long event held on Saturday 12th January at Facebook’s new Central London headquarters (fancy huh?). The idea of holding an event around digital and social stuff with local politicians has been bounced around here at FutureGov HQ many times in recent years. [...]
Originally posted on the Patchwork blog We had the pleasure of officially launching Patchwork, our brand new safeguarding app on Thursday 27 September. Developed over three years, it was a real honour to proudly share Patchwork with the fantastic group of people who turned up to celebrate with us, from like-minded social care experts, to [...]
[This post was originally published over on the Patchwork blog] It’s three years to the month since we first shared our idea with the world. Today sees us celebrate the launch of version one of Patchwork at our “Working with Troubled Families” event. Today really marks the start of a new phase for Patchwork. The official, post-pilot launch. Yes you heard it [...]
Far be it for us to pass up the opportunity to support really great people putting on really great local government related events, this summer (such as it is) we will be heading on down to two fun and fascinating events to listen, learn and share our thoughts with localgov curious colleagues on all things [...]
Talking to a room full of child protection practitioners at the launch of our work with Brighton and Hove
The sun was shining on Liverpool for Labour Conference last week, but that did not stop Labour activists from heading inside and filling up the room for our second Local, Social, Digital fringe meeting. You shouldn’t doubt their judgement though, they were promised Tom Watson MP (and a free lunch of bacon butties). Tom, as [...]
You can sign up to the event here or by visiting our Facebook event page. We kick off the first of our three Local, Social, Digital fringe meetings in Birmingham this Sunday at the Liberal Democrat Conference. We’re hoping to get an enthusiastic reception from a party where politicians have already embraced social media. Liberal Democrat MPs [...]