Troubled Families Webinar 11th July 11:00 BST Join our webinar to see how one of our clients reduced their troubled family data analysis from three months to just TWO hours. Information lies at the heart of the government’s determination to deliver a step change in the quality, accessibility and coherence of services’ for children and […]
Fraud Detection Webinar 4th July 11:00 BST Benefit fraud is rife in the UK. The government believes it costs £1.2bn annually some studies put the estimate much higher at least £5.5bn a year with Local Government fraud believed to be over £2.2bn; better fraud detection is now critical to help fund local services and reduce financial […]
Eric Pickles – Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Treasury ministers have announced a potential £1bn spending round boost to the Coalition’s troubled families initiative – which would see the DCLG continue to run the payment-by-results scheme and receive funding from across Whitehall. This additional investment in the Troubled Families Programme is great […]
Alan D. Duncan is Director of Data Governance at University of New South Wales, Australia. An evangelist for information and analytics as enablers of better business outcomes, he was named by Information-Management.com in their 2012 list of “Top 12 Data Governance gurus you should be following on Twitter”. His latest blog post offers a personal […]
FREE CLEARCORE INVESTIGATOR DOWNLOAD! See how Infoshare can benefit your organisation – drill down your data with our FREE ClearCore Investigator download. ClearCore Investigator significantly benefits key data quality projects by providing vital and effective analysis of key business systems using data content detection, duplication evaluation, profile analysis and data integrity checks. Download your FREE […]
ClearCore Solution reduces time taken to identify at-risk families from three months to two hours Nottingham County Council (NCC) has worked with Infoshare to effectively execute the recent Government Troubled Families programme. Under this legislation, which came into effect in 2011, councils are incentivised to identify the families struggling to cope and to find new […]
Data journalism is not new: the very first Guardian – or Manchester Guardian as it then was – in May 1821 contained a table of data. For the first time, The Guardian has extracted that table so you can see it for yourselves. The data would seem uncontroversial today: a list of schools in Manchester […]
A great initiative by Francis Maude for encouraging a more open and transparent data centric public sector whilst continuing his SME support…. “The Cabinet Office has today announced a new investment of £8 million to help public bodies release data. Announced by Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude and Business and Skills Minister Matthew Hancock, the […]
“Data becomes central to innovation and to all decision making, fuelling growth and making the organisation’s operations more efficient.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Read this article on: https://www.baselinemag.com/it-management/creating-a-corporate-data-culture/
Organisations around the UK have found that by investing less than £1OOK, they have been able to identify fraudulent activity to the tune of over £2 million. These organisations in both the private and public sector have applied a strong data quality process to their in-house data and they were able to claim success in […]