by Lee Emery | Dec 12, 2019 | Collaboration, Digital Stockport, Service Design
As a council our uppermost value is to keep the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do, so designing our services around user need is central to how we work. When we were invited to run a workshop about human centered service design at the first Local Gov...
by Eve Bello, Lisa Kowalewski and Amy Howell | Aug 30, 2019 | Digital Content, Digital Stockport, Service Design
In our last post, we talked about how we approached developing and delivering a new recruitment journey for foster carers, and what each stage of the process involved. This time we will explain each ‘project’ in more detail and how we got to where we are now. 1....
by Eve Bello, Lisa Kowalewski and Amy Howell | Aug 2, 2019 | Digital Content, Digital Stockport, Service Design
‘Discovery’ phase For the past year, the Digital by Design team have been working with Stockport Council’s fostering service with the aim of improving the way that the service recruits and retains foster carers. After an intensive research phase that included...
by Aimee Teare | Jun 10, 2019 | Digital Stockport, Service Design
In our last blog we talked about the joint discovery that Adult Social Care and Digital by Design colleagues had undertaken for a Technology Enabled Care (TEC) project. The project was funded through NHS Digital’s Social Care Digital Innovation Fund and supported...
by David Ayre | Jun 4, 2019 | Digital Stockport, Service Design
In this third blog by FutureGov, David looks at the principles of designing organisations for the 21st Century and how this can influence our service design approach. We’ve already spoken about what it means to go beyond digital and how we’ve prototyped a new end to...
by Vimla Appadoo | May 17, 2019 | Digital Stockport, Service Design
Further to the Going beyond digital blog last month, Vim from FutureGov describes the next stage of the service design process for our ‘Financial Landscape’ project. For the last few months we’ve been working with a multidisciplinary team at Stockport Council which...
