A Wrap on SAVVI Phase 3

by Shelley Heckman, Published 19 December 2024

Here at SAVVI we have wrapped up phase 3 of the project, and are commencing phase 4. The next phase of the SAVVI project will be the most ambitious of the phases so far and a separate blog will be dedicated to explain what we’ll be doing. For now, this is a short reflection on the project progress so far:

Phase one:

If you have been following us since the project started, you will know that SAVVI came about initially as a response to the pandemic back in 2020. In Phase 1 of the project we heard from those working in local government and proposed the

SAVVI Playbook⁠

. The Playbook contains:

SAVVI model process: the steps of the model include finding people, assessing their needs, supporting them, reporting that work and then improving the process.

SAVVI data standards: SAVVI has defined a concept model that matches the process model. A logical model was then built with entity definitions and constraints, which creates opportunities to build in tagging from terminologies and taxonomies.

SAVVI catalogue: this contains data attributes and datasets that shows how they have been used to locate people with various vulnerabilities.

Phase two:

In Phase 2 of the project we tested the process through pilots, built prototypes of the SAVVI catalogue, and socialised the project. We published two case studies that piloted SAVVI standards: the

Huntingdonshire for the SENA App⁠

and

North Yorkshire for School Readiness⁠

. We also launched the prototype of the

SAVVI Catalogue⁠

that includes good practice on data shares, message formats and looked at information governance techniques with the

SAVVI Information Governance Framework⁠

Phase three:

In this phase, we set out to try out SAVVI in real live projects. We wanted to move beyond pilots and to run SAVVI projects with local authorities. You can find two case studies on the SAVVI website detailing two of the SAVVI projects that we supported to deliver:

Supporting Vulnerable People During an Emergency at Wigan Council⁠

and

Reusing Data to Find Cases of Rural Child Poverty in Scotland⁠

When we commenced Phase 3, we had seen how our sister standards, the Open Referral UK (ORUK) standard, had been taken through the national data standards adoption process via the Data Standards Authority (DSA). ORUK is now a data standard that has been officially adopted by Government.

We were keen to follow a similar path and start SAVVI on a journey to attain Government recognition and adoption. To our surprise, the DSA team at the Central Digital & Data Office (CDDO) recognised the early significance that SAVVI as data standards could hold, and suggested an alternative route for adoption. In late 2023, the CDDO formed a cross government working group for vulnerabilities with the aim of agreeing across Government a shared conceptual model (based on the SAVVI conceptual model). This work has been so successful that it has spawned other cross government data standards initiatives.

Find out more

We work in the open and there are several ways you can keep up to date with our progress:

SAVVI mailing list ⁠

to receive our monthly newsletters

Attend SAVVI Show and Tell Sessions

Take a look at the

‘News’ page⁠

on the SAVVI website.

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