Data Sharing | Tailored Public Services

What: Data sharing for tailoring public services working group meeting

When: 10:00-12:00, 28 April 2014

Where: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX

This is the first meeting of the working group focused on the tailored public services strand of the data sharing open policy process. Over the coming three months, each working group will work through a process of:

• agreeing the intended purpose for data sharing in that strand (e.g. the problem it is intended to solve)
• identifying the scope of what can realistically be achieved within the time constraints of this process
• exploring the scale of problem that data sharing is being proposed as a solution to
• reviewing evidence of the current barriers to data sharing
• reviewing evidence of the risks of data sharing
• reviewing evidence of public views on data sharing
• exploring different options to solve the problem (including data sharing and alternative options)
• exploring the safeguards that are required and their proportionality
• identifying wider issues outside the scope of the group
• making proposals for the conditions under which data sharing should be allowed and the safeguards that should be required

This strand is concerned with proposals for a permissive but constrained power to share data between defined public agencies for specified purposes such as the delivery or targeting of public services for individuals from specified groups.

More details of the Cabinet Office's thinking to date can be found at: http://datasharing.org.uk/current-proposals/