Digital Access

We want to increase self-service, building on lessons from the pandemic, enabling greater responsiveness to people’s needs, improving the customer experience, and enabling us to target finite resources at those that need it most.

Why are we doing this?

Key outcomes include:

  • Increase self-service, building on lessons from pandemic, to target finite resources at those that need it most
  • Digital enabling greater responsiveness to citizen needs with a coherent One Stockport feel, improving experience

How might we do this?

  • Consolidate websites, remove repetition and support ongoing improvements to accessibility
  • Further develop website, chatbot, online forms, automation and push notifications
  • Redesign our online referral routes for an all-age approach to information, advice and guidance
  • Review digital directories and co-produce improvements
  • Promote, enable and support projects that increase digital access

 Please email your comments and suggestions

What impact have we already made?

Improving the SEND local offer

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Digital Declaration Month – celebrating making local digital services better

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We have designs on design in 2023

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On International Women’s Day we’re talking about #DigitALL

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, ‘Embrace Equity’, is being celebrated by The United Nations as ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. It aims to draw attention to the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social...

Mapping free wifi in Stockport

Having a device, whether a laptop, tablet or phone, is just part of a solution for people who are digitally excluded. It’s also about having internet access. With the cost-of-living crisis, many people are facing tough choices, and internet access is one of the things...

Contact us

Please send your comments, suggestions and questions to digital@stockport.gov.uk.

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