lightning talk given at an ODI workshop

1. Untold stories:
Local government data
the personal and the
political
Data gaps and narrative possibilities
Ingrid Koehler
Local Government Information Unit

2. Two stories
• Elections data: the most open data should possibly
be
• Home care data: social care needs, health
conditions and experience of care – the most
(nearly) closed data should be

3. Powerful Insights
for Better Care
Honest data about people’s ever changing care needs

4. Why CoCare?
• Making outcomes based
commissioning a reality
• Inspired by the Burstow
Commision on the Future of
the Home Care Workforce
• The only solution designed for
local authorities within the
local government family
• An outcomes ethos: for
individuals, care workers,
families and councils
• Designed for multi-agency and
informal care

5. • Home care monitoring app
designed to put individuals at
the centre of their care network
• Measures what really matters:
outcomes, independence and
experience.
• Effective communication
amongst professionals and the
wider care network.
• Co-designed at Kingston Council
What is CoCare?

7. The sad state of local elections
data
Although these are pretty good examples…

8. A world of possibilities in localgov

9. Ingrid Koehler: ingrid.koehler@lgiu.org.uk
@ingridk
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