The newbie edition — what am I doing now? Two weeks ago I started a new job at Hackney Council as Head of Digital for Social Care. Many of you will know that in Oct last year, Hackney was the subject of a fairly vicious cyber attack. Gov colleagues, if you haven’t made time to watch Matthew Cain’s reflections…

A few months ago, Camden and Central Bedfordshire successfully pitched for funding from MHCLG’s C19 recovery fund to figure out how to overcome some of the data sharing challenges we saw in the first phase of the pandemic. Specifically between local authorities and their local voluntary and community sector (VCS)…

At the National Children and Adult Services conference in Bournemouth, the Minister for Children and Families announced the Government’s commissioning of a consortium to develop and incubate a new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. …