Systems Director of @Porism. Technical Lead of the local government @LGInformPlus programme. Open Data enthusiast.
Joined October 2008
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
May 22
Our May 2026 newsletter is out featuring:
- Summer and Autumn training dates
- New Reports - Adult Social Care Priorities & Better Care Fund Monitoring
- Corporate Benchmarking Club
- Data - Children in Low Income Families & Personal income statistics
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
Feb 20
Our February 2026 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Outcomes Framework
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
- LGA Data Programme
- Updated Adult Social Care Infographic
- New & updated data - Connectivity, Active Lives Survey, Child development
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
21 Nov 2025
Our November 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- Indices of Deprivation
- Centre of Excellence
- Ageing in Your Community
- Partners in Care and Health reports
- Training
- Benchmarking clubs
- Local authority stock data
- LG Inform Strategic User Group
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
7 Nov 2025
About 9months ago I had a really frustrating call with people in the UK government following years of frustrating meetings with people in the UK government. An archive of the UK's bus open data, the location of every bus in real time, was going to be too hard to release,...
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
26 Oct 2025
The sheer rage of this driver. Sheβs angry because car manufacturers promised her freedom and she is instead imprisoned inside her own car, and she hasnβt the emotional maturity to handle it.
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
17 Oct 2025
Our October 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Department for Education Centre of Excellence
- Local transparency guidance
- New Report - Understanding Ageing
- Training - data in public health & council performance
- New Data - Winter Fuel Payments
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
19 Sep 2025
Our September 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Outcomes Framework Consultation
- Government five missions report
- Share your feedback
- Autumn training dates released
- Python training
- Power BI masterclasses
- Electric vehicle charging statistics
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27 Aug 2025
Update from @LDgovUK on #OpenReferralUK #OpenReferral localdigital.gov.uk/news/new⦠with news of adoption by @placecube @PPLconnected and @LocalGovDrupal
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
22 Aug 2025
Our August 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Outcomes Framework consultation
- LG Inform App Version 2 released
- Benchmarking ClubΒ Q1 2025/26
- Census data users survey
- New Data: Travel time to local amenities & people in employment
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
25 Jul 2025
Our July 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Outcomes Framework report
- LG Inform App - launched at LGA Conference
- Adult Safeguarding Report
- Event - A guide to successful data sharing across public services
- New Data - Average Rents
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Our March 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Reorganisation: Let LG Inform Plus Natural Neighbourhoods help
- New LG Inform Videos: Get trained up!
- Event: AI Innovation within Local Government
- New Metrics: Apprenticeships
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
24 Jan 2025
Our January 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- New Case Study - Birmingham City Council
- New Data - Patient Discharge Dates
- New Events - Becoming an Insight-Led Organisation and Natural Language Processing
- Innovation Zone Applications 2025 Now Open
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
20 Dec 2024
Our December 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- New LG Inform report on Digital Inclusion
- New Data - Understanding Housing
- LG Inform in 2024 - Thanks from us!
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Our October 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- ONS Local Workshop Series with LG Inform & Data Maturity Assessments in Local Government
- How are we doing? Share your feedback on our council improvement support
- Autumn LG Inform & Plus Training
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16 Oct 2024
News from Local Digital including a recording of the βWhat is Open Referral UK meeting and an invitation to the meeting of 20 Nov for IT people and suppliers.
2 Oct 2024
The latest #LocalDigital newsletter is now available!
β Read about how we're transforming the #Housing sector through improved #Data
β Learn about our new Open Referral UK steering group
β Sign up for sector events and training
Take a look π
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Our September 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- Value for Money upgrade
β- New Green Belt data
β- LGA/ONS workshop and Open Referral UK events
β- Meet us at The Innovation Zone at the LGA Annual Conference
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
18 Aug 2024
A look into why Spain has the highest life expectancy in Europe β
Straight from the Spanish themselves.
Their serious, insightful, and hilarious answers:
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20 Jul 2024
Why arenβt upgrades such as that from Crowdstrike released gradually rather than for everyone all at once?
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Mike Thacker π΄ββοΈ retweeted
19 Jul 2024
Our July 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- Insights from Client Level Dataset, adult social care
- Improving discharge from hospital
- Getting started with Power BI
- Performance management panels
- Liver Disease Profiles
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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