Mike Thacker 🚴‍♀️

Systems Director of @Porism. Technical Lead of the local government @LGInformPlus programme. Open Data enthusiast.

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our May 2026 newsletter is out featuring:
- Summer and Autumn training dates
- New Reports - Adult Social Care Priorities & Better Care Fund Monitoring
- Corporate Benchmarking Club
- Data - Children in Low Income Families & Personal income statistics

https://t.co/7pNtH9wRAq

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our February 2026 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Outcomes Framework
- Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework
- LGA Data Programme
- Updated Adult Social Care Infographic
- New & updated data - Connectivity, Active Lives Survey, Child development

https://t.co/WPP8qR6L9G

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our November 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- Indices of Deprivation
- Centre of Excellence
- Ageing in Your Community
- Partners in Care and Health reports
- Training
- Benchmarking clubs
- Local authority stock data
- LG Inform Strategic User Group

https://t.co/gZhgFA2Odd

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

About 9months ago I had a really frustrating call with people in the UK government following years of frustrating meetings with people in the UK government. An archive of the UK's bus open data, the location of every bus in real time, was going to be too hard to release,...

[CyclingMikey the Unspeakable @MikeyCycling]

The sheer rage of this driver. She’s angry because car manufacturers promised her freedom and she is instead imprisoned inside her own car, and she hasn’t the emotional maturity to handle it.

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our October 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Department for Education Centre of Excellence
- Local transparency guidance
- New Report - Understanding Ageing
- Training - data in public health & council performance
- New Data - Winter Fuel Payments

https://t.co/nKovotiZ4w

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our September 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Outcomes Framework Consultation
- Government five missions report
- Share your feedback
- Autumn training dates released
- Python training
- Power BI masterclasses
- Electric vehicle charging statistics

https://t.co/8oP6ta6TEH

[Mike Thacker 🚴‍♀️ @MikeThacker]

Update from @LDgovUK on #OpenReferralUK #OpenReferral https://t.co/ycBhSirPRF with news of adoption by @placecube @PPLconnected and @LocalGovDrupal

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our August 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Outcomes Framework consultation
- LG Inform App Version 2 released
- Benchmarking Club Q1 2025/26
- Census data users survey
- New Data: Travel time to local amenities & people in employment

https://t.co/DkbYz0XX9v

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our July 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Outcomes Framework report
- LG Inform App - launched at LGA Conference
- Adult Safeguarding Report
- Event - A guide to successful data sharing across public services
- New Data - Average Rents
https://t.co/hBTaLp03BK

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our March 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- Local Government Reorganisation: Let LG Inform Plus Natural Neighbourhoods help
- New LG Inform Videos: Get trained up!
- Event: AI Innovation within Local Government
- New Metrics: Apprenticeships

https://t.co/BduNQDfTfY

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our January 2025 newsletter is out featuring:
- New Case Study - Birmingham City Council
- New Data - Patient Discharge Dates
- New Events - Becoming an Insight-Led Organisation and Natural Language Processing
- Innovation Zone Applications 2025 Now Open

https://t.co/6XLWM0jmxn

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our December 2024 newsletter is out featuring:

- New LG Inform report on Digital Inclusion
- New Data - Understanding Housing
- LG Inform in 2024 - Thanks from us!

https://t.co/rZJIG0sx6a

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our October 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- ONS Local Workshop Series with LG Inform & Data Maturity Assessments in Local Government
- How are we doing? Share your feedback on our council improvement support
- Autumn LG Inform & Plus Training

https://t.co/wj0Sfn9N5e

[Mike Thacker 🚴‍♀️ @MikeThacker]

@theJeremyVine @crisortunity I fear the problem arises because people from elsewhere in the UK and most of the USA are unused to bike lanes. I know many cyclists who use the road rather than the bike lanes because they consider it safer. I just ring my bell a lot and say thank you if pedestrians move.

[Mike Thacker 🚴‍♀️ @MikeThacker]

News from Local Digital including a recording of the “What is Open Referral UK meeting and an invitation to the meeting of 20 Nov for IT people and suppliers.

[Local Digital UK Gov @LDgovUK]

The latest #LocalDigital newsletter is now available!

☑ Read about how we're transforming the #Housing sector through improved #Data
☑ Learn about our new Open Referral UK steering group
☑ Sign up for sector events and training

Take a look 👇
https://t.co/ABNapr6MaD

[LG Inform Plus @LGInformPlus]

Our September 2024 newsletter is out featuring:
- Value for Money upgrade
​- New Green Belt data
​- LGA/ONS workshop and Open Referral UK events
​- Meet us at The Innovation Zone at the LGA Annual Conference

https://t.co/W2VEXhGr5C

[Nick O'Brien @NickLovesSpain]

A look into why Spain has the highest life expectancy in Europe —

Straight from the Spanish themselves.

Their serious, insightful, and hilarious answers:

(a 🧵)

[Mike Thacker 🚴‍♀️ @MikeThacker]

Why aren’t upgrades such as that from Crowdstrike released gradually rather than for everyone all at once?