OpenDataCommunities

and Hampshire Hub

Using data to improve outcomes for individuals and communities

Briefing for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Executives

14th November 2014

Steve Peters

Strategic Statistics Division, Analysis and Innovation Directorate

Mark Braggins

Hampshire County Council / Hampshire Hub Partnership

Contents

1) Open data - What is it and why does it matter?

2) Introducing OpenDataCommunities

○ Progress and achievements to date

○ Next steps

3) Introducing Hampshire Hub

○ Progress and achievements to date

○ Next steps

4) Future vision and next steps

5) Questions for discussion

Open data

What is it and why does it matter?

The facts and evidence to enable public, voluntary and private sector organisations to:

• Provide better local services for people – through planning and targeting for

specific local priorities and needs.

• Support strong communities where people feel they belong – through services

that are more open, transparent and accountable to local residents and

communities.

• Secure cost-savings and efficiencies for public sector organisations and

partnerships.

• Support businesses to grow and create jobs – through developing local

economies, and secure economic growth.

• A means to unlock facts and evidence held in different organisational and

system silos, and thus realise the benefits above.

• Ensuring that data can be used in new, innovative ways by new audiences

including local residents, communities and businesses.

Data

Open Data

The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can

be quickly and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.

Open Data: why it matters

Some examples (1)

Integrating local health and social care:the Better Care Fund

DCLG priority

Jane is part of an Integrated Care

Team.

She needs data from national and local

organisations to help her plan and

deliver personalised care packages,

and know whether these are making a

difference to the overall targets and

objectives for her area.

The data sources that Jane needs and

uses include:

● National data on avoidable emergency

admissions; admissions to residential

and care homes

● Local data on pressures within adult

social care; effectiveness of recovery and

rehabilitation measures.

The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly and

easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.

Community participation e.g. Neighbourhood Planning

DCLG priority

Geoff is a Parish Councillor,

leading a local group to prepare

a Neighbourhood Plan.

In order to establish a coherent plan for their

neighbourhood, the group needs evidence

from a range of sources:• DCLG’s statistics on deprivation.

• The Local Authority’s assessment of the

housing market and land availability/allocations

for housing across the local area.

• Office for National Statistics data on the local

population and demography.

• Ofsted data on performance of local schools

• Police data on local crimes.

The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly

and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.

Open Data: why it matters

Some examples (2)

Doing business with the Local Authority and other local agencies: e.g. procurement & contracts

DCLG priority

Alan runs a local construction

company, and wants to

explore opportunities for new

business with his Local

Authority.

To help him do this, Alan needs data from:• DCLG – on numbers and types of households,

and Local Authority budgets and expenditure.

• The Local Authority, on spending over £500

under specific services.

• Neighbouring councils, on contracts awarded

for construction projects.

• Companies house, on suppliers of similar

services.

The prize is a web of data, where local and national sources from many organisations can be quickly

and easily brought together and re-used in a wide range of ways.

Open Data: why it matters

Some examples (3)

OpenDataCommunities

Vision and potential for end-2015A platform for routinely publishing all DCLG

datasets in fully open, accessible and re-usable formats

Helping Jane, Geoff and Alan to quickly find and use data to solve their problems by re-using DCLG’s data

alongside related sources.Which means

An integrated, open, accessible source of DCLG’s data, including:

Homelessness

statisticsHousing

statisticsLA finance

statistics

Arms-Length

bodies

Maps and

geography

Other Central Government sources – e.g.

Spending

Ministry of Justice

Repossessions

dataOffice for National

Statistics (e.g.

Census, local

Labour Markets)

Contracts &

tenders

Housing &

Planning registers

Local Authority Sources – e.g.

e.g. Planning

Appeals, Social

Housing Register

Companies

House

Data Linking

Energy

Performance

Registers

Apps and insights for user communities, e.g.

Neighbourhood

Planning

Local

businesses

Housing

service

providers

OpenDataCommunities

Current position

http://london-fire.labs.theodi.org/explore/

Linking new sources for a better, more open

understanding of policy objectives and outcomes

The web of data…what can it do?

A prototype policy tool to:

• measure the efficiency of dealing with fire emergencies in

London Boroughs.

• estimate the impact of change as one or more stations are

closed.

• Uses London Fire Brigade’s public data on

incidents

• Blended with data from mobile phones (Telefonica)

on concentrations of people at different locations.

Response times

weighted by mobile

phone activity

(footfall)

Fire Station before

& after closure

Enabling 3rd party innovation and

new insights

spendnetwork.com Illustreets.co.uk

Brings together local data on spending,

contracts and suppliers.

Covers Districts, Counties and Central

Government Departments

Blends national data -

e.g. on house prices,

rents and deprivation -

with local sources - e.g.

on schools, and crime.

The rise (and rise) of Local

Authority open data sites…

A broad, strong Partnership

There are currently 21 22* Hampshire Hub partners. These include:

● 11 District Councils

● 2 National Parks

● County Council

● Fire Service

● British Army

● 3 unitaries

● Police

● DCLG

● Ordnance Survey*

Hampshire Hub extends beyond

‘just’ Hampshire, and includes the

Isle of Wight, South Downs National

Park, several neighbouring

counties, and has benchmarking

data for all of England.

● Help inform decision-making

● Accessible & open by default

● Store, present and link local with national (and other local) data

● Sharing an evidence base reduces duplication

● Resource for voluntary, public, private sectors & local communities

Informing Hampshire

(and beyond)

The world doesn’t stop at the county line

Area Profiles - IntroductionClick image to watch video

Open Data Communities Geo SelectorClick image to watch video

Some Hampshire Hub initiatives

● Planning Register for Hampshire & Isle of Wight (also

Surrey)• The project led to creation of a national standard for planning data

used by ODUG for the Local Authority incentive scheme

• Working with My Society who are developing the ‘Open Planning’

tool

Hampshire Hub Initiatives

● Aerial photography for the whole of the county

released as open data (also height and near

infrared)

● Weather You Do or Whether you Don’t

● Crowd-Sourcing Landscape Change

● IC Tomorrow - Using data to support

independent living

● UK Space Agency Earth Observation data -

flood warning

● Open Cities Data Platform

● (Open) Data Co Ops

"If you open things up, good things happen"

● BlueLightCamp in May 2014 helping

tackle issues around emergency services

and resilience

● Know Now / Hartree Centre: “Weather

You Do or Whether You Don’t” - extract

value from historic data - use to inform

future decisions

● February 2015: Open Data Camp

● May 2015 Hampshire Hub Open Data

Jam

Hacking can be...good!

Future vision and next steps

Within the next 5 years:

All public organisations will routinely release datasets for users to

quickly discover, combine and interpret in their local context, to

support more open, accountable and cost-effective public services,

and local economic development and growth.

1. Publish based on user demand, balancing costs and benefits

2. Work pro-actively in partnerships to :

● engage with users so that data is actively used alongside related external sources

to deliver innovative new tools and insights.

● build and spread best practice based on common standards.

3. Use our own and related third party sources more efficiently and cost-effectively

when designing and implementing policies and programmes.

How?(principles)

Questions for discussion

1. What are your priorities for better use of data? Where

do you think the biggest benefits are to be found?

2. What opportunities are you aware of to exploit data to

improve services and improve efficiency that aren’t

being taken up?

3. What are the barriers? Skills? IT? Awareness?

4. How can we help?