January 2024

Written by SAVVI Project Manager, Shelley Heckman

SAVVI Projects

Wigan Civil Contingencies Project

The second draft of the case study for the project continues to be written, to reflect on the comments and amendments from the SAVVI team and we are now developing a set of information governance artefacts for the project based on the current versions that will be able to share with other councils seeking to reuse Wigan Council’s work.

The SAVVI team are also compiling the essential information about Wigan Council’s implementation of SAVVI into a new SAVVI Vulnerability Template which will form part of the SAVVI Catalogue entry for this project.

Wigan Council has submitted nominations into two iNetwork Innovation Awards categories for their work on Civil Contingencies. The award categories that the initiative has been submitted into are: iStandUK (Data Standards) and Effective Information Sharing & Security. These awards are independently judged.

SAVVI Rural and Island Child Poverty Project

The SAVVI engagement team continued to support the three Scottish local authorities to develop their risk models based on available data and with the identification of legal gateways for reusing risk factor data to prioritise families for support. Andrew Humphreys, our SAVVI Coach provided support on the use of both risk factors and protective factors to improve the prioritisation of families for support to increase their income from welfare benefits.

Nailah Ukaidi, our SAVVI IG Expert has continued to support the local authorities to take the SAVVI approach through their existing information governance processes to get authorisation from Data Protection Officers to proceed to requesting risk factor data from internal services and Government Departments and agencies that hold the necessary data.

Paul Davidson, SAVVI Product Owner has been leading work to develop a data request format for SAVVI projects that we are expecting to use and refine in the final phase of the project that will start in February.

SAVVI has been asked by the Improvement Service (Scotland) to produce a video soundbite about SAVVI’s part in the Rural Child Poverty project. Shelley Heckman, SAVVI Project Manager, filmed this on Friday 26 January.

GMCA’s Supporting Families Data Mesh Project

The SAVVI team continues to work with GMCA to document their reuse of data for the purpose of delivering the Supporting Families Programme in a SAVVI-compliant format so that other councils that deliver this programme can replicate the data items reused by GMCA and their local authority partners across Greater Manchester.

SAVVI Standards Adoption

CDDO Cross Government Working Group on Vulnerability Standards:

We continue to meet with the Data Standards Authority (DSA) which is led by CDDO, on a weekly basis to plan for the next meeting of the cross government working group on vulnerability standards.

New collaboration with LGA on reuse of DWP data

Through the DWP MOU Group, the LGA is newly interested in the reuse of DWP data and has approached SAVVI / iStandUK to support. We have set up an initial meeting with LGA advisors to local authorities to understand the ask. As part of this, SAVVI has produced a briefing paper on the work SAVVI and iStandUK are doing regarding working towards a nationally adopted standards based approach to data reuse for vulnerability purposes. This paper is currently being proofread by the DWP to check for accuracy on their position.

SAVVI Stakeholder & Funder Engagement

Viper Project & a national ambition

Paul Davidson and Shelley Heckman met with Alison Love from Westmorland and Furness Council and Chris Manuel from Wiltshire Council on 23rd January to discuss the synergies between SAVVI and and the ambition VIPER has on contributing to the development of national data standards for Emergency Response. The outcome is that we are going to engage with the key contact at the Cabinet Office Civil contingencies Secretariat (CCS), responsible for writing the current guidance for finding vulnerable households in an emergency. Additionally, SAVVI has asked the DSA to extend an invitation to the CCS to join the cross-government working group to establish national vulnerability standards.

BOLD Project:

Better Outcomes through Linked Data (BOLD) is a government data-linking programme which aims to improve the connectedness of government data in England and Wales. Paul Davidson and Shelley Heckman met with Anisur Rahman from the Ministry of Justice who delivers the Knowledge Management for the BOLD project.

DWP MOU Steering Group:

Mike Thacker (SAVVI Tech) delivered a presentation about SAVVI and Open Referral UK to the January DWP MOU Steering group. This was a liaison with local authority DWP MOU group with a view to sharing data reuse examples.

LDF Project Board:

Shelley Heckman (SAVVI Project Manager) attended the LDF Project board on 31 January where we gave a brief update on the latest with the SAVVI project.

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