by Sarah Burke | Mar 9, 2018 | Digital Stockport, Workforce Development
Stockport Council is committed to providing apprenticeship opportunities and has put 144 new apprentices into position during 2017/18. During National Apprenticeship Week we are giving one of the apprentices in our digital team a chance to describe their experience....
by Dan Fenwick | Jan 11, 2018 | Digital Stockport, Workforce Development
We have recently completed Phase 1 of the mobile working roll out for Stockport Family, where 130 Social Workers and School Age Plus Workers were provided with touch screen tablets with on board 4G SIM for using on the go as well as in the office. Two training...
by Emily Wilson | Nov 24, 2017 | Digital Stockport, Workforce Development
Our experience of recruiting digital staff at Stockport Council has clearly shown that the Digital Skills gap both in the workplace and wider community is growing. Talking to peers confirms that we are not alone in facing this problem. So what is the digital skills...
by Emma Collingridge | Aug 30, 2017 | Digital Stockport, Workforce Development
Our Digital by Design programme is committed to supporting services with new ways of working. By improving our mobile working processes and replacing equipment we will achieve efficiencies in both time and cost and also better customer service for our residents. What...
by Matt Turner | Jul 24, 2017 | Workforce Development
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” Benjamin Franklin In my previous #DigitalStockport blog I described our adoption of the Kanban method and what this means in terms of our approach to visualizing work, our focus on finishing...
by Emma Collingridge | Jun 19, 2017 | Workforce Development
I have been so impressed by and proud of the energy and enthusiasm with which the new Digital service and latterly the core IT service at Stockport Council have adopted agile as a way of working over the past two years. Over the past few months I have been reflecting...
