Been away? CLGdotTV has passed a tipping point in August with 12,128 programme views 18% up on July

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FOR MY SUMMER VIEWING SELECTION our producer, Lee Barber, asked me to choose some of my favourite CLGdotTV programmes of the last few months.

Vacation, staycation or nocation you may need to catch up on some of the key LocalGov conversations that passed you by earlier in the year. My short list got longer and longer but I make no apology. CLGdotTV aims to broadcast discussions by experts, on key issues in Local Government, with the minimum amount of jargon and grandstanding. Do we always get it right? No! But when we do it's compelling stuff. I hope you enjoy viewing these programmes as much as we have enjoyed making them.

Super connected cities: with Roy Grant, City of York & Mark Lowe Pinacl Solutions. York’s council, blue light services, NHS, academic institutions, cctv & traffic management and local businesses, are all served by the same blisteringly fast "dark fibre network" initially installed eight years ago. New things enabled by the network are coming on line all the time, for example, temperature and humidity sensors are currently being fitted in social housing to pre-empt the health threatening consequences of condensation and mould. https://bit.ly/2vz0XWA 

Blockchain: how 50+ local authorities are collaborating to explore its potential with Jane Hancer of CC2i and & George Rhodes of Kent Connects. CC2i is a service that enables councils to crowdfund innovation. In May it kicked off a programme of technical research and business analysis into whether Blockchain technology is ready and appropriate to support local government service delivery. Kent Connects’ principal interest in participating is around the potential for sharing data across local health and social care organisations. https://bit.ly/2AWENTo    

Arts, culture and place: playwright David Edgar & Coventry City of Culture creative director Chenine Bhathena https://bit.ly/2MCW7OB ; and author Stella Duffy with Darren Henley CX of the Arts Council https://bit.ly/2Mg196S . These two videos remind us that local government is not just about collecting the bins, managing local development and supporting vulnerable people. It is also about inspiring and leading the experience of place for the benefit and wider wellbeing of local residents.

Open data and elections: with LGiU’s Ingrid Koehler & LGA’s Juliet Whitworth https://bit.ly/2KF0Hdo  ; also Democracy Counts’ Simon Verdon & Keith Simmons, Chief Officer (Democratic & Registration) at Bedford Council https://bit.ly/2KEZWB4 . We used the opportunity of May’s local elections to examine why people don’t participate as fully in local elections as they do in national ones, despite the huge impact of local services and the local economy on their lives. Greater openness and transparency, and what is needed to make it happen, are central to both discussions.

Drones and public services: Nishita Dewan of Nesta & Lucy Gosling of Transport West Midlands discuss Nesta’s Flying High Challenge. Bradford, London, Preston, Southampton and the West Midlands are on a six month exploratory journey to identify and better understand the potential and problems raised by rapid advances in drone technology. What are the findings so far and what comes next? https://bit.ly/2noZAVY

Is the Internet killing democracy?: Jamie Bartlett author of The People vs Tech & digital creative Lars Malmqvist of Arcus Global discuss Jamie’s contention that: At some point within the next generation the contradictions between democracy and technology will exhaust themselves......either tech will destroy democracy and the social order as we know it, or politics will stamp its control over the digital revolution." https://bit.ly/2nneMTB 

Local planning, digital and engagement: Stefan Webb of Future Cities Catapult, Dennis Sangweme of LB Southwark & Steve Huckett of Tascomi held a wide ranging discussion on the digital enabled future for planning. Topics covered included digitising the planning process; the role of apps and other tools; using digital tools to present ‘the Local Plan’; and getting hyperlocal communities engaged digitally with Neighbourhood Planning. https://bit.ly/2B1yDRV 

The circular economy: not just waste recycling, also local procurement of suppliers with David Greenfield of SOENECS & Hilary Simpson https://bit.ly/2Jar4HK and Hilary again with Dan Sofer  & Matt Crow on the cooperative effect in Preston & Islington https://bit.ly/2IJMFau . Both discussions were about making best use of resources. Waste management is increasingly about reversing decades of ‘the throwaway society’ while it can also be argued that local resourcing of technology and other suppliers is ultimately less ‘wasteful’ – of human rather than physical resources.

Making websites accessible: back in February I spoke with Colin Stenning of Bracknell Forest Council about the challenges of making websites accessible to people with disabilities. Bracknell Forest has been a consistently high performer in accessibility testing by Socitm’s Better Connected service. Colin explained that it isn't enough for web developers and content editors to have the right skills and knowledge. Awareness of the need for accessible websites among budget holders is essential too.
https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/the-challenges-of-making-websites-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities
https://betterconnected.socitm.net/usability/access-for-people-with-disabilities/2017-18

The data dividend for councils: since CLGdot TV started, we’ve had a lot of conversations about the value and uses of data collected by councils, but this was one of the first. Here Lars Malmqvist of Arcus Global; Tom Symons of Nesta; and Pye Nyunt of LB Barking & Dagenham share their knowledge.
 https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/lars-malmqvist-of-arcus-global-tom-symons-of-nesta-and-pye-nyunt-of-lb-barking-dagenham-on-data-and-the-data-dividend-for-councils

Modernising public services: in which Mark Thompson of Methods gives the executive summary of his and Jerry Fishenden’s Manifesto for Better Public Services. LGiU’s Ingrid Koehler and LGA’s Judith Whitworth put him to the test. https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/modernising-public-services-the-link-with-mays-local-elections

Service Design: this programme, recorded in front of a live audience on 27th June at the second of our ‘Audience With CLGdotTV’ days has been one of our most popular. Also featuring Ingrid Koehler, who heads service innovation at the LGiU, panelists include Ben Lyons-Grose Head of Service Design at Methods & Natasha Epstein Environmental Services Contract Manager at South London Waste Partnership.
https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/is-the-current-preoccupation-with-service-design-a-genuine-step-forward-or-just-another-phase-that-local-government-is-going-through

Nobody wants to live in a care home: this is one of the most viewed videos from a clutch we made at the TechSevern event with support from West Midlands ADASS. Carey Bloomer of Marches Care and Lynne Bowers, a workforce specialist working with IEWM and WM ADASS shared their ideas in an extremely interesting discussion about the need to change widely-held attitudes to social care among the general population. In future, only those with extreme mental and physical incapacity are likely to be accommodated in care homes and everyone needs to engage with the realities of responsibility for their own care and that of other family members.
https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/nobody-wants-to-live-in-a-care-home

PODCAST: Quality Assurance for Care Homes: the weight of regulation and the frequency of changes in procedures and technologies can make compliance and its monitoring a bottomless recource pit. Heath Groves explains to Joe Tibbetts how Sundown Solutions, have been working with Rochdale Council to develop an online service that ensures are compliant but even better, shares improvements among the user community.
https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/podcast-quality-assurance-for-care-homes

What does the future hold for local government: Graeme McDonald MD of SOLACE and Andrew Haldenby Director of REFORM agreed that the shift towards greater autonomy and greater control of local budgets for local government is becalmed – maybe never really having got started in the first place. A couple of weeks’ later, Joe spoke to Martin Reeves CEO Coventry and SOLACE lead on LG finance gave us more details about the crisis in local government finance, and did not pull any punches.

https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/what-does-the-future-hold-for-local-government
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https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/martin-reeves-ceo-coventry-and-solace-lead-on-lg-finance-on-the-crisis-in-local-government

The case for de-criminalising cannabis: Neil Woods is a former policeman, a member of the drug squad, who spent years undercover in drugs gangs, JS Rafaeli is an author and broadcaster who has made a special study of the drugs problem and the criminal environment that surrounds it and Paul North now works in drugs policy having started in the front line as a drugs worker make the case.
https://connectedlocalgovernment.tv/post/neil-woods-js-rafaeli-and-paul-north-on-the-fatal-effects-of-criminalising-the-use-of-cannabis

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On 23 October An Audience with CLGdotTV No3 will focus on social care and health and topics covered will include:

 

integration of health and social care services around place

the HR and skills connundrum at the heart of social care and health integration

the challenges of patient/citizen information sharing and how these can be overcome

the role of population, NHS ‘SUS’ and other data in improving service interventions and outcomes

self-supporting communities – how far will social prescribing and asset based commissioning take us?

the potential of apps and other digitally-enabled products and services in social care

the sustainability of current health and social care systems.

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