What we are building
The problem: services hold records on the same households in systems that cannot easily exchange data. So we are building the connector, a matching engine that links those records. We use it to build our tools: London referrals and the private rented homes check.
Working tool · uses the connector
London referrals
The duty to refer tracker
- What it is
- A public page for the 33 London councils, from the government's own figures, each quarter.
- What it shows
- For each council: the households that public bodies referred under the duty to refer, and how prevention work ended, with the change on a year earlier.
- What it is for
- It shows how the duty to refer works in each council area, so councils and their partners can see where referrals arrive.
- Find a council
- See five quarters as charts
- Export the figures
In build · the core of our tools
The connector
The record matching engine
- What it is
- A matching engine that links the records different services already hold. Each link has a score and its reasons.
- How it works
- It is designed to run inside each council's own systems. The council keeps its data, and a gate shares only what each partner is allowed to see.
- What it is for
- The aim is for services to spot people who need help earlier.
- New uses plug in as packs
- One gate for every request
- An audit log of each release
Working tool · uses the connector
Private rented homes check
Southwark and Enfield
- What it is
- A check that reads open data and finds privately rented homes that a council can look at.
- What it shows
- Leads to check in every ward, with the method and its measured accuracy. Counts only, never an address.
- What it is for
- It shows a council's private rented housing team where to look first. A council officer checks each lead and decides what happens next.
- Leads to check in every ward
- The method and its measured accuracy
- Export the ward counts