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CLGdotPOD - Talking Local Government is a weekly podcasts about, for and by anyone working in or interested in UK local government. This podcast sits alongside CLGdotTV webTV programmes avai...

If, as Joe believes, human beings are machines, why are we bothering to build artificial intelligence. If we succeed all we will have done i...

.… the machines are coming. I have seen the future and it does not look anything like the past or the present. We are as children now, innoc...

Madeleine Starr, Director of Business and Innovation at Carers UK explains how digital can help the UK's 8.8 million unpaid carers - includi...

A wide range of professionals from the world of planning and development convened at December's MapLondon event to explore how cities might...

Asmat Hussain, Corporate Director of Governance tells Rachael Tiffen of CIFAS what happened next after the High Court's overturn of its 2014...

Damian Nolan (Halton BC) and Jane Hancer (CC2i) explain the problems of administering meds and describe a new collaboration by councils to f...

Jane Hancer (CC2i) and Damian Nolan (Halton BC) describe how a five-council collaboration supported by the LGA and match-funded NHS Digital...

The Bridge - Shropshire Council's immersive approach to presenting local data - is set to transform council and NHS commissioning The Bridge...

Kate Hurr, Digital Manager at Cumbria County Council, describes colleagues' enthusiasm for creating digital services in-house. The discussio...
London Borough of Havering's Chief Operating Officer Jane West and transformation lead Susie Faulkner describe a process designed to bring s...

Clair Green, Director of Assurance at London Borough of Barnet tells Rachael Tiffen, Director Local Government at CIFAS, about an unpreceden...
The proportion of over 65s and 85s in Shropshire is growing faster than in most parts of the UK and that concentrates the mind, says Andy Be...

Director of Policy Catherine Miller describes how the thinktank is working with regulators across all sectors on measures to counter harmful...

This conversation reveals how Durham County Council has developed its comprehensive counter fraud strategy from pretty much a standing start...

After a decade of austerity, people working in social care have got used to hard decisions and making do. But the message emerging from the...

Heading up one of the country's newest councils - one that only came into being on April 1 - Matt is also the policy spokesman on digital le...
iHub is 80% externally funded, from sources like InnovateUK, Horizon2020 and the European Investment Bank. Only four posts are currently fun...

Staff picking up enquiries handed off from Monty, the Monmouthshire Council website chatbot, have needed training to ensure they put aside c...
Dr David Greenfield asks materials designer Lucy Hughes and Richard MacCowan CEO Biomimicry UK all about design solutions that mimic the nat...

Leatham Green, Executive Director of the Public Services People Manager's Association (PPMA) in conversation with Fiona McAdoo Associate Dir...

Dr David Greenfield asks Adam Woodhall, spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and Cat Fletcher, head of media at Freegle to explain how shar...

Joe Tibbetts talks to Richard Vize a journalist well known in the public sector/delivery of public services space, Kushi Gujral of Protect t...

Paul Clarke of Esri UK, Graeme McDonald of Solace and Stuart Cole of Oxfordshire County Council explain how crowd-sourced, interactive maps...

Dr David Greenfield draws out key aspects of the current Strategy consultation with Robert Vaughan and Linda Crichton of Defra, and Stuart H...

Rachael Tiffen, Local Government Director at Cifas, and Essex CC Head of Assurance Paula Clowes, discuss why fraud isn't a higher priority f...

Llewelyn Morgan of Oxfordshire County Council tells CLGdotTV's Joe Tibbetts about iHub, the 24-strong innovation unit he leads that is 80% e...

Stuart Lester of Transport for the West Midlands and Toby Bennett, Local Government Lead at Commonplace discuss how data is being used to ma...

Khadiza heard about apprenticeships at school and, unable to go to university for financial reasons, started at Camden aged 17. Two years la...

Brett Leahy, chief planner at Redbridge and Richard Sankey of Arcus Global explain how smarter planning will deliver a better planning servi...

Andrew Walker, managing the LGiU's Homelessness Commission, Cllr Stephanie Cryan of LB Southwark and Dawn Eckersley of the East London Housi...

According to Andy Begley, who heads up adult social care, housing and public health at Shropshire Council, and is Co-Chair of West Midlands...

The use of sensors to monitor individuals' wellbeing is set to take off agreed Roy Grant of York Council, Mark Low of Pinacl Solutions and K...

PwC UK drones lead Elaine Whyte, Dedrone's Amit Samani and Tris Dyson of Nesta discuss the economic and social potential of drones and wheth...

In typical 'smart city' discussions, agreed our panel, most of the people around the table are from organisations and represent sectors like...

Leatham Green of the PPMA and Jonathan Key of LabourXchange tell Jane Hancer of CC2i that public sector approaches to recruitment, retention...

Jason Kitcat (Essex CC) Richard Farrell of Netcall and Sleuth Co-op's Hilary Simpson discuss how local authorities might overcome challenges...

As awareness grows of the environmental, even existential, consequences of our take/make/use/throw approach to resources, minds are focusing...

This wide ranging discussion provides an excellent primer for those vaguely aware of, for example, legalization in Canada and some states in...
CLGdotTV will be talking with Beth regularly in 2019, and with some of the SMEs she mentors, to better understand the difficulties innovator...

Project Manager Laura Folkers of the Worcestershire Office of Data Analytics, and Charlotte Shepard Information Officer for Redditch & Broms...

OpenStreetMap is a global project whose aspirations to 'map the planet' – because maps & data created by government agencies are not always...
Councils unhappy at paying agency rates, care workers who feel underpaid and undervalued, and care recipients suffering the consequences, co...

Observers surprised that some of the projects selected for funding under the programme – eg managing missed bins, providing taxi licensing s...
Businesses and manufacturers will pay the full cost of recycling or disposing of their packaging waste, under a major new government strateg...

Dr David Greenfield of SOENECS and Joe Tibbetts of CLGdotTV unpick the climate change threat and consider some possible solutions. All again...

When we talk about Smart Places more often that not we mean cities or large towns. But remote communities cannot remain viable unless they c...

As Head of Commissioning, Vulnerable Adults, for Essex County Council Rebecca Jarvis recognises that more needs to be done to prepare patien...

Putting in the infrastructure for connectivity is today's equivalent of the Victorians putting in sewers – you have to make the infrastructu...

'St Albans Unlocked' is blazing a trail with huge potential benefits for the health and wellbeing of local communities. Linda Chandler and A...

In our first podcast in this series, Dylan described the benefits of a city having an approach to 'smart' that is genuinely shared between t...