From Policy to Practice: How MHCLG’s data model is enabling us to deliver at pace

The sector has been discussing the implications of Awaab’s Law, usually with a mix of uncertainty and fear, for much of the last year. The team at Made Tech Housing have been following developments and supporting customers like London Borough of Camden with some preparatory initiatives around streamlining damp and mould reporting.

However, it wasn’t until the draft guidance was published and we drilled down into the details of the proposed processes and obligations that we realised how significant a change this could be for our customers and how ill-equipped many existing solutions are for the type of deadline-oriented case management the guidance points towards.

We’ve made a new SaaS product for residents to report housing repairs

We’ve built a new SaaS (software as a service) product that lets residents report their housing repair needs to their local authority. It takes about 5 minutes for a resident to use. We’ve built this to help local authorities all over the UK improve the housing repairs services they provide to their residents, while saving time and money at the same time.

Local Gov as a product, platform and service

There’s a real challenge for those working in local government trying to make services consistently better for citizens. Many authorities need to grasp the opportunity tech gives us. As it stands, there’s too much reliance on monolithic products and the big suppliers doing very limited innovation.