You are visiting a discussion forum for people working in public services who are enthusiastic about making progress in the area of personal data sharing and who would like to share their ideas and learn from others.
Communities and Local Government (CLG) has commissioned OPM and the Local Futures Group to look at the benefits of sharing personal data across local strategic partnerships (LSPs), as well as the challenges involved in doing this and how they might be overcome.
We have undertaken a piece of research, using interviews, workshops and an online survey to hear the views of people involved in data sharing initiatives. Our research participants to date have included those involved at a strategic partnership level (for example, LSP partnership managers), those involved in performance or strategy (for example, strategy and transformation service heads) and those involved in designing and delivering data sharing initiatives (for example, IT managers and information officers).
There are different types of personal data. For the purposes of this study, we have divided them into four types: you can read about these in the attached PDF.
If you would like to know more about the research project, please email Ellie Brodie
This forum is for people working in public services who are enthusiastic about making progress in the area of personal data sharing and who would like to share their ideas and learn from others. It will also provide you with a networking opportunity, building on the enthusiasm expressed by many of the current participants in this research project.
To use the forum you will need a log in name and password. If you would like to join, please contact us and we will email you back a log in name and password.
Then you can log in to the forum by clicking the log-in button at the top of the page or use this link to log in: http://www.opm.co.uk/datasharing/forum/login_user.asp).
If you would like to share any documents with forum members, please email them to us (we are doing this manually to cut down on spam).
Using the forum
1. Your profile
Once you have logged into the forum, you may wish to change your password or other details. Click the 'edit profile' button to do that.
Afterwards, click on 'Return to the main discussion forum' to go back to the main page.
'Your profile' only contains the information needed to make the forum work. We do not ask for personal details. You can choose whether or not you want to include your email address and location.
2. Contributing your ideas
Click on 'Forum 1', under the heading 'Available forums'. This is the only discussion forum so far. We may add more forums later on.
You will see a list of 'threads' which are discussions that other people have
started. Click on any topic thread to read what the person has said.
You can add your own ideas on that topic by clicking the 'post reply' button.
Or you can start a new discussion thread on a subject that interests you by clicking the 'New Post' button.
From any part of the forum you can click the 'Return to the main discussion forum' to go back to the list of topics.
If you would like help with using the forum, please email Leila Carlyle at OPM or telephone her on 020 7239 0877.