A new COVID-19 Special Announcement Widget has been added to the COVID-19 Community Toolbox.

Birmingham City Council has shared its ‘Donate Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)’ form on a new COVID-19 Community Toolbox. The form can be reused by councils to accept donations of equipment for use by front-line NHS staff, care workers and volunteers.

The chancellor is today expected to announce £2.5bn in funding (£500m each year for the next five years) to fix up to 50 million potholes across Britain.

David Spilsbury, Applications and Web Team Manager, Cherwell and South Northamptonshire Councils, outlines how a digital transformation that began with waste services now offers citizens self-service to over fifty council services.

Silktide, in association with SOCITM, has released a list of the Top 30 UK Council websites for accessibility.

Residents walking into Norwich City Council’s offices used to have to give their information to a customer service adviser, take a number and wait their turn to speak to someone from the service they required. Not having a designated time could mean long waiting times and frustrated visitors. It was the same process used by many councils up and down the country. 

We’re pleased to see that two new Jadu Creative sites (Broxbourne and Harrow) occupy the top two rising positions in the 2019 Q4/UK Local Government Sitemorse rankings. It’s also great to see Jadu stalwart (Harrogate) continue its reign at the top of the Accessibility chart!