Wigan Borough Partnership delivers better intelligence with WISDOM

United Kingdom | Public Sector Case Study

“InstantAtlas has been instrumental in helping us show what the LSP partners can do with all their data and by helping to obtain buy in from senior management”

Wigan Borough Partnership is just about to launch a new version of its information and intelligence website WISDOM.

The LSP partners (including Wigan Council, Ashton Leigh and Wigan Primary Care Trust, Wigan and Leigh Housing and Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust) needed a robust evidence base to support a number of initiatives including the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, the Sustainable Communities Strategy, Joint Public Health Strategy (Living Well in Wigan), strategic commissioning, the Local Area Agreement and local level delivery plans.

The partners realised they weren’t sharing data efficiently or effectively and that as a result it was difficult to create a clear and accurate picture of what was happening in the borough. Data was held in a number of different systems which meant there was no simple way to gather information from all the partners.

Starting point

In 2006 a borough-wide Smart Neighbourhoods programme – and in particular a one-off project called 400 babies – had shown how data could be consolidated and presented in a meaningful way. The 400 babies project followed the prospects of 200 babies born in the most deprived areas of the borough and compared them with 200 babies born in the most affluent. It looked at everything from education through to life expectancy. Having seen how the 400 babies project had worked the LSP partners with a lead taken by the Council and Primary Care Trust started to develop Wigan Information System of Dynamic Online Maps.

Jonathan Caunce, Intelligence Analyst says: “InstantAtlas has been instrumental in helping us show what the LSP partners can do with all their data and by helping to obtain buy in from senior management. The InstantAtlas Server Modules provided flexibility so we could really determine what we wanted, rather than being constrained by the features of a single product.”

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