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Digital LGR Playbook launched!

1 day 2 hours ago
One of the projects I have been working on for the last 6 months or so is the playbook of support for councils going through reorganisation, which specifically looks at the digital and digital-adjacent things that need dealing with. It’s really great to see it emerge in the open and for people to start using […]
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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 20 February 2026

3 days 4 hours ago
Short week last week as I took a couple of days off for half term. Also, I need to get into the habit of writing these during the week they actually refer to. This week’s worky highlights: Some more Skillstats demos, which were as helpful to me as they were those on the receiving end. […]
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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 13 February 2026

1 week 2 days ago
Another Tuesday posting! Weeks are flying by. I guess this is part of getting older. That and getting increasingly bad at remembering, well, anything. This week’s worky highlights: The publication of the LGR DDaT playbook has been postponed for a couple of weeks. It’s a shame but can’t be helped. In the meantime we are […]
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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 6 February 2026

2 weeks 2 days ago
A Tuesday posting but I don’t suppose anybody minds – most of this was written last week though, promise. This week’s worky highlights: The LGR DDaT playbook is on the cusp of release, which is very exciting. It’ll be nice to be involved in getting a project out of the door for the Local Digital […]
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Accessibility Statements – how well are councils in the UK and Ireland doing with keeping them updated?

2 weeks 3 days ago

This blog post considers how well council websites in the UK and Ireland are meeting legal requirements to review their accessibility statements. How many councils have an Accessibility Statement? The majority of councils in the UK and Ireland (398 – 97.1%) publish an accessibility statement on their main websites. 12 councils (2.9%) currently don’t publish […]

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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 30 January 2026

3 weeks 5 days ago
January has felt like a looooong month, and I haven’t really enjoyed it. Doesn’t feel like I am remotely up to speed after the festive break, still! So tired. So very tired. This week’s worky highlights: Getting some of the info-gov stuff sorted for clients using Skillstats – DPIAs and that sort of thing. Slightly […]
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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 23 January 2026

1 month ago
Blogging has been a little light this week. Just not that much stuff to link to, and I’ve been in a headspace where I’ve not had too many share-worthy thoughts or ideas. I’ve been tired – maybe that’s the reason. I also didn’t post this on Friday but left it til the following Monday! Silly […]
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📅 Weeknote w/e Friday 16 January 2026

1 month 1 week ago
Let’s see how long I can keep this up for! This week’s worky highlights: We are recruting for two big roles at Luton Head of Innovation Delivery and Data Deputy Data Protection Officer & Compliance Improvement Manager Also at Luton, we have identified 5 big areas of work that we need some more investment in […]
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Recategorising over 3,000 blog posts

1 month 1 week ago
I have been frustrated with the state of the categories on this blog for some years now. That’s right – years. This site has been going in one form or another for over 20 years – the first post being in 2004 – and there’re over 3,000 posts on here in total. Over that time, […]
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Accessibility overlays used by councils in UK and Ireland

1 month 2 weeks ago

Back in late 2023 I reviewed the number of councils using accessibility overlays (also known as accessibility or assistive toolbars). I was aware that concerns have been raised about this technology, so decided to find out which councils are using them. Two years on I carried out another review to find out if there has […]

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AI is not a strategy

1 month 2 weeks ago
AI is not a strategy, it’s a tactic. Once all the fuss has settled down, we will be in a position where specific AI tools are useful in specific circumstances – it won’t have “transformed” anything. We had exactly this conversation about robotic process automation a few years back. And before that, cloud. And before […]
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