Webinar: Revolutionising Government's Relationship with Data
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Councils are being driven by ever tighter squeezes on budgets and the availability of smarter, cheaper technology. And senior leaders need high quality, reliable data that can be interrogated to reveal insights that will let them do more with less. The good news? Revenue and Benefits teams already have the data sets. In this webinar Deven Ghelani and Daniel Cavanillas from Policy in Practice showed how some Revenues and Benefits teams are using their data to punch above their weight. We highlighted how local government finance teams have: - Used standardised government data sets to identify in advance which individual households will be affected by the lower benefit cap and by how much. They can take proactive steps and prioritise support to those most heavily impacted. - Used standardised government data sets to identify which 18-21 year olds will lose their Housing Benefit as a result of changes in government policy, and which will be required to ‘Earn or Learn’. Some of our clients have commissioned targeted support on the basis of this analysis. - Used standardised government data sets to identify exactly how much is lost through Pupil Premium funding as a result of households failing to make a claim for means tested free school meals, and exactly which households should be making a claim. This is worth over £1m to most London Boroughs.
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Webinar: Revolutionising Government's Relationship with Data
- 1. Policy in Practice Webinar: Revolutionising Government’s Relationship With Data Thursday 28 April 2016
- 2. Housekeeping • Audio check • Please ask questions • Polls and a survey • Finish by 11:30
- 3. Speakers Daniel Cavanillas Policy in Practice Deven Ghelani Policy in Practice
- 4. Agenda • Introduction to Policy in Practice • Making Data Meaningful: A household level analysis • Our approach: The cumulative impact of welfare reform to 2020 • Our impact: Examples of our past work • The future: Understanding the changing shape of income, employment and poverty • How we can help
- 5. We make the welfare system simple to understand, so that people can make the decisions that are right for them
- 6. www.policyinpractice.co.uk SOFTWARE individual impact CONSULTANC local impact POLICY national impact
- 8. Leading Lights Network March 2016 www.policyinpractice.co.uk
- 9. We know that data is important… • NESTA are calling for an Office of Data Analytics across London and Manchester, and argue that working smarter is the only way that that the local government funding gap will be met • The DWP consistently call for better data on the impact of interventions, data is in particular demand at ministerial level • Local authorities have their own insight and business intelligence teams, indicating that this information is important to policy and strategy teams
- 10. But using data is difficult… • Get data from different departments, or from the ‘data person’ • Clean data that is inconsistent • Structure data so it can be manipulated at scale • Analyse data to produce meaningful information • Apply data by turning that information into insight • Deliver outcomes by following through on the data driven decision Data for its own sake may not deliver results, it can lead to a false sense of security • How do you make data meaningful?
- 11. 111111 Poll 1: Where does your data come from? - DWP and central government - Local Authority Insight Team - My departmental team - I don’t have any data - Don’t know
- 12. What if data could tell you that: “Mrs Biggins at 73 Acacia Terrace will be affected by all welfare changes by £15.62 per week and has high barriers to work” www.policyinpractice.co.uk
- 14. Policy in Practice’s approach Your Housing Benefit / Council Tax data Our Universal Benefit Calculator Rich, detailed impact assessment: who is impacted and what are the Council-wide effects? 1. Use local data and insights to inform better decision making 2. See the impact of different models together with ongoing welfare reforms 3. Inform Council Tax Support decisions
- 15. 151515 Let’s look at a data set now Who could get the pupil premium, with their free school meals? Who’ll be most affected by the Benefit Cap?
- 16. A rich data set, in MS Excel
- 17. Who is affected?
- 18. 18 Back to Deven
- 19. Compares the current benefit system and Universal Credit Considers planned and prospective changes in government policy More accurate and detailed than current approaches Universal Benefit Calculator
- 20. 202020
- 21. How others are using their analysis Birmingham City Council Identified households most vulnerable to welfare reforms to map local support onto local needs North Hertfordshire Council Accurately forecasted the cost of their CTRS scheme to help eliminate £500,000 underspend Leeds City Council Developed innovative approach to local support Introduced targeted conditionality and justified his decision to cabinet Melton Council Combined analysis on the most heavily impacted households with strategic intervention activity Newcastle City Council and Your Homes Newcastle Detailed impact assessment now, along with a big data hub to track the impact of reforms and effectiveness of interventions in the future
- 23. Show how powerful your data is Policy in Practice can: • Get data from your SHBE and CTR datasets • Clean data using our experience working with other authorities and policy knowledge to make a few necessary assumptions • Structure data into households to model welfare reforms • Analyse data to show the individual and cumulative impact of reform, including the benefit cap, UC and the Living Wage on each household • Apply data and identify the impact on how each household will be affected in the future, through to in 2020 • Deliver outcomes by helping you to prioritise which households need what support. We model each households income today under the current benefit system and Universal Credit, and each year through to 2020. We can combine with data on rent and council tax arrears, and support payments to target support to those that need it most
- 24. 24 Questions?
- 25. We are scratching the surface Working with you, we want to • Track the impact of reforms on households over time • Combine with other datasets • Develop a real time online dashboard on income, employment and poverty
- 26. Tracking and monitoring • One off snapshots are interesting • But tracking and monitoring over time is much more powerful • Ongoing analysis keeps the information up to date, and take into account recent policy changes. It can also give you: • A richer picture about each household, including work history, the impact of past interventions on e.g. arrears • The ability to track the effectiveness of interventions, to help you to commission the right support to the right people • So that you can: • make better informed strategic and operational decisions • apply analysis across other service areas (e.g. employment and skills, adult and children’s services)
- 27. 27 Online dashboard What could that look like?
- 29. 292929 Poll 2: Are you interested in … ? - a one off snapshot analysis - ongoing tracking and monitoring - an online dashboard - combining with other datasets - benchmarking with similar authorities - none of the above Partner with us to develop evolving software that focuses on outcomes
- 30. Join our rally cry • Be at the heart of a data revolution in your local authority • Partner with us so we can learn from you, and we can help you to learn from each other • Call with one voice for data sharing from DWP • Make the case for your role in local welfare delivery, using clear headed analysis
- 31. Next steps Complete the automated survey immediately after this webinar to: 1. Request existing client reports 2. Request dataset demo 3. Request pricing details 4. Request our Customer Testimonials eBook We have permission from existing clients to share their reports with other local authorities who may be similar in structure, demographics or strategic vision to your council.
- 32. www.policyinpractice.co.uk Thank you Deven Ghelani deven@policyinpractice.co.uk 07863 560677 Daniel Cavanillas daniel@policyinpractice.co.uk 0793 066 5768 hello@policyinpractice.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- Policy in Practice is a social policy software and consulting business. We were founded by Deven Ghelani who was part of the team that developed Universal Credit at the Centre for Social Justice. When the policy was adopted by government, he left there to set up Policy in Practice. He was keen to ensure that the policy intent was actually put into practice. Since then, and together with the team he's built at Policy in Practice, he's facilitated conversations between leading local authorities and the Prime Minister's office to ensure frontline feedback about welfare reform policy has been heard. In addition, Deven and the team have helped local organisations to understand the aggregate and cumulative impact of welfare reform changes on their customers so that they can accurately target support programmes. And finally, to close the loop, the software that Policy in Practice has developed simplifies the conversations that frontline advisors can have with customers by clearly showing what benefits they can get under the current system and when they move to Universal Credit, comparing the two side-by-side using data visualisation.
- Hands up if you are quite data savvy?
- Thank you.