Reserve your place here: https://lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/122/home 

Come to a hands-on introduction session to learn more about the finer points of LG inform Plus. This is to be held in the LGA Headquarters, Smith Square, Westminster.   Focus will be given to the small area reporting tool (ward/neighbourhoods compared with wards/neighbourhoods) called LG Inform Plus.  We will also give an overview of the large area reporting tool (council compared with council) called LG Inform.

As well as small area reporting capabilities – see sample public reports here –LG Inform Plus also provides other tools to assist local and fire information managers through the information sharing standards, through defining natural neighbourhoods for aggregating reporting areas,  records management tools, powers and duties guidance, direct data feeds to populate your own spreadsheets and corporate system.

An informal hands-on session with demonstrations and practical time to try things yourself is being arranged for users to learn the extent and capabilities of the new data services and to instruct on the basics for designing, constructing and sharing tailored reports.

Agenda for day

• Background / vision / next steps timetable
• Summary of the tools available
• esd-standards pages and content search
• Public small area reports
• Small Area Report builder – simple components
• Small Area Report builder – adding / editing components
• Small Area Report builder – text narratives and text tokens
• Creation and use of Natural Neighbourhoods
• Direct data feed access via the applications programmable interface - API
• Records retention guidance and tool
• Powers and duties guidance and tool
• LG inform overview of public access
• LG Inform signed in access
• Simple large area report building and publishing
• Conclusions