Another great hire at Luton – welcome to James Bovington, joining as principal developer in the newly formed digital team. James is one of the most ingenious and thoughtful devs I’ve come across, so it’s fabulous having him on the…

On the benefits of a bit of external scrutiny

I have had the pleasure over the last couple of years of being a member of Woking Council’s Digital Design Authority. This is a group made up of a few senior members of the digital team at the Council, the…

As an experiment, relating to some work I’m doing for a customer, I asked Google’s Gemini to do some deep research and write a report about the market for revenues and benefits systems for UK local government. You can read…

Digital LGR Playbook launched!

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…