East Dunbartonshire Council | Next level service delivery
East Dunbartonshire Council had an ambitious digital plan and an objective to streamline contact points for both residents and staff
A digital team, formed of citizen developers and traditional IT staff, are providing low-code enabled Innovation-as-a-Service for the council’s evolving requirements
Deep funding cuts have forced local government to find efficiency savings to maintain service delivery. Every local government council is facing changing lifestyles, an ageing population and operating under a widening funding gap.
Delivering services in a new way can provide the answer. It also brings a new set of challenges. It’s the route that Adur & Worthing Councils decided on.
“Our mission is to make digital change really people-centred, so the services we implement are great user experiences.”
Paul Brewer
Director for Sustainability & Resources, Adur & Worthing Councils
It is estimated that 27% of GP appointments could be avoided if better technology was used to coordinate between GPs and services.
Patients suffering from social exclusion, debt anxiety, poor diet or lack of exercise are often responsible for repeat appointments, using valuable GP time. If these underlying problems were handled through other support services, overstretched GPs could focus on patients with complex medical conditions.
Adur & Worthing Councils, West Sussex County Council and the Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) partnered to set up a new scheme. “Going Local” aimed at getting people out of GP surgeries and refer them to non-medical community services instead.
Social prescribing became the first project that Adur & Worthing Councils dealt with using Liberty Create. They knew low-code could streamline processes for Going Local. Their team built the new digital solution in just weeks, providing:
The Adur & Worthing digital team, formed of citizen developers and traditional IT staff, was now ready to turn their low-code skills to other projects.
Providing low-code enabled Innovation-as-a-Service for the council’s evolving requirements, they tackled the next series of issues:
Adur & Worthing deployed Citizen Hub, our full-stack, low-code case management, workflow and process automation solution for councils.
Citizen Hub provides access to valuable apps which are designed specifically for local government which are built on Liberty Create. As Adur & Worthing were already proficient at developing in low-code, this helped them to speed up process development even more, using the pre-built out-of-the-box apps and tailoring them to their exact need.
This ensures constant, fast and cost-effective improvement of services for the councils.
Encouraging early results led the CCG to extend the pilot to a two-year scheme. It also set up a steering group rolled out a plan to start a service user group.
Adur & Worthing Councils went on to bring Going Local to the Netcall Community AppShare as an independent Liberty Create accelerator. They were the first local government community member to do so, and it is now available to other councils using Liberty Create to download and customise.
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Using the Liberty Create platform, Adur & Worthing built a social housing repairs service which includes self serve appointment booking, operative scheduling and field work.
The next major project the team tackled was team designing an end-to-end waste management digital service. It is comprised of four self service applications, which were built in 12 weeks.
Using the Liberty Create platform, Adur & Worthing built an asset management digital service enabling digital stock condition surveying, compliance monitoring and commercial estate management.
Adur & Worthing wanted to harness the talent they had within the organisation to build a digital team that was able to understand and tackle the systems the council needed.
Meet James Bovington, who moved to the Digital Team having previously worked as a Coastal Surveyor for the council.
“Netcall is far from a faceless tech company – we’ve met many of the team in person. Knowing the people behind the product makes our ongoing communication fast and constructive, so the support is as efficient as low-code itself.”
James Bovington
Senior Digital Developer, Adur & Worthing Councils
“I’ve found the best things about Netcall’s low-code are how fast it is to build and that even ambitious end-to-end projects are possible. It’s intuitive and open, we can easily access data and connect to other systems. The forum on the Community is also fantastic – the Netcall team respond and contribute regularly.”
James Bovington
Senior Digital Developer, Adur & Worthing Councils
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