A blog about all things digital at Luton Council
A blog about all things digital at Luton Council
Over the last few months, the DDaT team have been working on the refresh of the council’s fleet of printers with Ricoh being the new printer supplier. Ricoh has a strong record of delivering high-quality services to local authorities. The…
If THRIVE means Training, Health, Resilience, Inclusion, Vitality and Empowerment, then there’s a new hub to help!
Opened just over two months ago in Upper George Street, Thrive Hub Luton provides digital support, community-led education, skills development and creative programmes for Luton’s residents.
Updates from DDaT projects including OneDrive user adoption, frontline services, regulatory services, data governance purview pilot, workplace experience, people services and technology and infrastructure.
In addition to our DDaT away days, the whole of Luton's DDaT service gets together in person for our Quarterly Connect sessions. At its core, the session was about something simple but powerful: building a more connected, collaborative and high-performing digital community across the council.
In my last post, I wrote about how our new digital platform supports our Luton 2040 vision and why it matters. This update is about the progress we made in sprint 3 to make that platform more visible, more consistent and more ready for testing.
Skills, work experience and graduates were a focus for our director this week, along with potential plans for a mayoral authority. Read other updates on our projects across DDaT and Luton Council.
Find out how our new digital platform supports our Luton 2040 vision - that Luton will be a healthy, fair and sustainable town where everyone can thrive, and no one lives in poverty.
Another week of exciting updates for DDaT Luton, from a bid to be the UK's first Civica AI infrastructure site to more development of our low code platform.
A month ago, we were laying the rails by agreeing patterns, shaping standards, and getting ready for delivery. Now the Liberty Create platform is up and running and we’ve just reached the end of Sprint 1.
Awesome overall customer satisfaction score of 94.44% in April!! Plus weeknotes from our director and all DDaT projects, from OneDrive user adoption to low code and web.
When a Children’s Ofsted inspection lands, the pressure is immediate. While frontline practice takes centre stage, there’s a huge amount happening behind the scenes to keep services running smoothly. That’s where DDAT comes in.
On top of the usual action, DDaT received inspiring feedback this week! "We are changing the culture and services are coming to us for all sorts of tech now." Which made us feel like we're getting it right ✅
March summary – deeper dive edition If you missed it, here’s the moment the new Luton Council website launched: ‘We are live!‘ After months of planning, content sprints, SME workshops and a lot of ‘work backwards from the date’ energy,…
A summary of all the action from Luton's DDaT service last week.
Luton’s DDaT service has chosen Netcall as our low-code development platform provider. Liberty Create is the development platform we’ll use to build the Luton CRM.
It seems Luton is the place to be! We have yet another DDaT newbie - Joe bring a wealth of local gov experience and is a great addition to a great team 😊
A lighter week due to Easter, but Luton's DDaT service still made significant progress!
Our aim is to increase digital inclusion in Luton. Find out how we plan to empower our residents and improve lives through better access and support for digital.
A group of us from Luton’s DDaT service visited Microsoft’s London headquarters to experience 'App to the Future' with the Microsoft AI team.
Find out what what progess Luton's DDaT service made last week, with updates on projects like our website replacement, OneDrive adoption and more.