GTN Jun 09



*June 2009* *Transforming Public Service* *www.govtechnews.co.uk*

Welcome to the June edition of GTN. Local authorities have made great progress in modernising the way they work both internally and the way they interface with citizens and the outside world. This month we have articles that focus on successfully deployed IT solutions for school meals, street scene officers and secure mobile connectivity. We would encourage you to review these and why not share this month’s GTN with other colleagues? If you have received this from a friend and would like to receive your own copy, please subscribe here.

AWARD NOTIFICATION
Service Birmingham selects NetMotion WIreless
as the standard for Mobile Working

Having been proven in exhaustive trials within the Council together with Service Birmingham over the last eighteen months, NetMotion Mobility XE is now a Service Birmingham and Capita standard solution for mobile working, with NetMotion Mobility allowing the council to have a flexible secure access solution to meet the vast majority of their mobilisation needs. For background, issues, design challenges click ‘Read More’.

CASE STUDY
Innovative points reward scheme increases uptake of school meals

SOLUTION PROFILE
Councils in Berkshire and Sussex improve reporting on National Indicators for Street and Environmental cleanliness’

Cordia is a spin off organisation of Glasgow City Council. It is responsible for various services across the city of Glasgow including catering in schools.

The organisation has pioneered an innovative Fuel Zone Points Reward scheme, to tackle the well publicised decline in school meal uptake.

The scheme enables pupils to receive points for eating a range of healthy choice items including sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, salads, milk and water. These points are uploaded at the end of each day and pupils can trade them for rewards from an online catalogue, which range from cinema tickets to iPods.

The geographical analysis of ‘tags’ within a number of District Councils has enabled Streetscene Officers to identify graffiti trends and also routes of offenders within their communities.

Most recently this led to the apprehension of one offender, once a geographical pattern emerged as a school route.