Data sharing on worklessness
Data sharing on worklessness
One of the key issues affecting the efforts of local partners to tackle worklessness relates to contraints on data sharing. This has been raised consistently, most recently in the Tackling Worklessness (Houghton) Review. CLG and DWP agreed to initiate a pilot project in order to demonstrate the ways that relevant data can be shared within the current legislative framework. The pilot involves Kent, Leeds and Liverpool City Region, and aims to clarify current barriers, enabling factors and ways forward.
Derrick Johnstone is one of three Local Improvement Advisors (LIAs) supporting the pilot areas and contributing as a member of an Expert Group. The role of the LIAs is to:
Derrick Johnstone is one of three Local Improvement Advisors (LIAs) supporting the pilot areas and contributing as a member of an Expert Group. The role of the LIAs is to:
- broker relationships and facilitate discussions around local needs for worklessness data
- facilitate data sharing and data management to achieve better outcomes
- help identify solutions to obstacles, including ways of ensuring data security
- working with local partners, CLG and DWP to test and provide exchange protocols, data sharing principles, Memoranda of Understanding, and other tools to underpin this process
- identify lessons and good practice to be shared more widely as outcomes from the project.