Keep getting everything you can from your membership
Your events, training and resources
Here’s a top 5 of things for you
- Get the data you need on us this year.
Started your 1 complimentary benchmarking module yet? - ICYMI Free training with Microsoft and Socitm next month
Tue-22 and Wed-23-Apr | 09:00 to 16:30 | Change Agent | 0 points - Are you in the LocalGov Apps Managers Network?
- Follow the blog posts about Refreshing Scotland’s Digital Strategy.
- From Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes: How do people feel about AI?
Take care. I hope you can have a great weekend.
Best wishes,
Alex.
In Your Membership Resource Hub
AI@Socitm
Get to know and use AI. Find practical help, skills, and a deeper understanding of applying AI responsibly.
Wed-2-Apr |13:00 to 14:00 | Harnessing AI for a smarter S/4HANA migration
Fri-4-Apr | 10:15 to 12:00 | Having a well-defined AI policy [APSE NI]
Tue-29-Apr |11:00 to 13:00 | Using intelligent automation to meet the challenges facing local government in Northern Ireland
Case studies
Filter and find relevant case studies for what you’re doing or where you are
Is yours missing? Let us know.
Cyber@Socitm
Get and stay secure
Find practical help, skills and a deeper understanding of cyber security in local public services.
Find and join your WARP.
Wed-30-Apr | 13:0 to 14:00 | CymruSOC: Insights from the UK’s first National Security Operations Centre
Digital Trends: Contextual drivers
A broad range of external forces across global, national and local borders. They’ve never been more challenging.
Making it hard to find the space, risk appetite, resources and prioritisation for change.
Many organisations, such as hospital trusts, end up buying new technologies and systems, rather than implementing complex change.
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Watch: How UK councils are building exceptional connected digital services
For ease of viewing, the recordings are divided into easy to navigate chapters, with subtitles and transcript available via the video player toolbar.
You will need a user account on socitm.net to access member-only resources. Let us know if need any support.
Data driven decision making with Place Insight
Membership add on
Place Insight blends data into a single, simple-to-use platform. It’s a comprehensive Social Progress Index using 56 datasets per authority [in England]. Giving you a multi-layered view of social progress where you are.
Your members-only offer
Gain cost-effective access to Place Insight as an add-on to your membership.
To find out more contact Head of operations Poppy Brummell.
Accessibility and inclusion
Check your website’s Silktide Accessibility Score
Log in to find your personalised monthly report and advice by clicking the ‘Check your website’s accessibility score’ tile.
How’s your Digital Accessibility Maturity?
The DAMA is a comprehensive self-assessment. Hassell lnclusion send your score plus a report with next steps for how to improve your current position.
In your membership: Courses
Leadership
Empowering Women
- Taunton |Tue-1 to Wed-2-Jul and Fri-3-Oct | 3 points
- Huntingdon | Thu-18 to Fri-19-Sep and Thu-20-Oct | 3 points
Place-based Leadership
- Manchester | Tue-13 to Wed-14-May | 4 points
- Birmingham | Mon-27 and Tue-28-Oct | 4 points
Top Talent
- Glasgow | Wed-25 to Thu-26-Jun and Thu-28 to Fri-29 Aug | 4 points
- Cardiff |Tues-9 to Wed-10-Sep and Mon-13 to Tue-14-Oct | 4 points
Core skills
- Weds-2 and 23-Apr | 09:30 to 12:30 | Managing And Motivating Hybrid Teams | 1 point
- FULLY BOOKED Tue-15-April | 09:30 to 12:30 | Introduction to Emotional Intelligence | 1 point
Spaces still available in September and November - Tues-6 and 20-May | 09:30 to 12:30 | How to be an Effective Coach | 1 point
Registering for training
Read your guide to using training points. Log in for the current number of available points. Don’t have enough or you’ve run out? Let us know.
Things happen. If you can’t make the date of your training course let us know ASAP and we’ll get you onto the next suitable one available. And your training points will transfer with you.
Please note: non-attendance without letting us know will mean training points getting deducted from your organisation’s annual total.
Free training with Microsoft
Get the knowledge and confidence you need to lead a change delivery
- Tue-22 and Wed-23-Apr | 09:00 to 16:30 | Change Agent | 0 points
- Mon-16 and Tue-17-Jun | 09:00 to 16:30 | Change Agent | 0 points
This free course is a collaboration between Microsoft and Socitm. You do not need to be a Socitm member to attend this course.
Better data improves everything
For 2025 only: complimentary use of 1 benchmarking module
Choose from: cost, delivery, performance or user skills.
I’m not saying that gathering the data is easy, but Socitm helps with the way it lays out the surveys, which makes it intuitive and straightforward to use. Turning gap identification into service improvement is the real hard work, all underpinned by benchmarking data.
John McVey, ICT production manager for Argyll and Bute Council
Events
Member-only meetings
- Wed-2-Apr Meeting for London and the South East in London EC4A 4BL
- Fri-4-Apr Having a well-defined AI policy [with APSE Northern Ireland]
- Mon-7-Apr Meeting for the Midlands in Birmingham B2 5EP
- Thu-24-Apr Members’ connection hour
- Fri-9-May Meeting for the North East on Teams
- Thu-22-May Meeting for Yorkshire and Humber in Leeds LS1 2HQ
- Fri-30-May Meeting for Scotland on Teams
- Tue-10 and Wed-11-Jun President’s Conference 2025 in Birmingham
- Tue-14-Oct Socitm in Wales in Cardiff
Free webinars and meetings hosted by Socitm
Next: Wednesday 2 April | 13:00 to 14:00 | Harnessing AI for a smarter S/4HANA migration
Explore how using an AI toolset can help mitigate your challenges and strategically prepare your organisation for the transition.
- Wed-9-Apr | 13:00 to 14:00 | How Microsoft Fabric can give you a single view of your authority
This unified platform integrates data (across social care, housing, finance) - Tue-29-Apr| 11:00 to 13:00 | Using intelligent automation to meet the challenges facing local government in Northern Ireland
- Wed-30-Apr | 13:00 to 14:00 | CymruSOC: Insights from the UK’s first National Security Operations Centre
- Fri-16-May | 13:00 to 14:00 | Transforming the Resident Experience at West Lindsey District Council
Missed one? Recordings of Socitm webinars are available in the Resource hub.
Fill up your notebook/notes app with ideas, contacts and things to do.
Everything will wrapped by Socitm’s members’ community to create the best mix of presentations and people in a collaborative and relaxed atmosphere.
Mostly free webinars and events hosted by partners and others
- Mon-31-Mar
- 12:00 to 13:00 techUKxLGA Women in Digital Government
- 13:30 to 14:30 | Mapping your public service with Wrexham County Borough Council: digital transformation of the council housing application process.
- Wed-2-Apr Microsoft Innovation and Collaboration Forum
- Wed-23-Apr 5G Innovation Region Series: TAY5G Programme
- Thu-24-Apr Accelerating secure adoption of Copilot for M365
- Tue-29-Apr Digital Access Solutions in Primary Care: The Role of Technology
- Wed-30-Apr Make a difference, work for your local council – national recruitment campaign for local government
- Wed-30-Apr and Thu-1-May GDS and the Incubator for AI: local government innovation hackathon [Leeds]
- Wed-7-May Microsoft Innovation and Collaboration Forum
- Thu-8-May Transforming public Services 2025 [Glasgow]
- Thu-22 and Fri-23-May Local Government Partnership Network North 2025 [Manchester]
Socitm President Carol Williams is chairing both days - Wed-4-Jun Microsoft Innovation and Collaboration Forum
- Thu-12-Jun Public Sector Digital Transformation 2025 [Edinburgh]
- Wed-18 to Thu-19-Jun WLGA Annual Conference [Llandudno]
- Thu-19-Jun LocalGovCamp South West [Taunton]
LGPN North 2025
Thursday 22 and Friday 23 May | Manchester M3 4LQ
Socitm’s President Carol Williams (from Walsall) is chairing this one. If you’re going please seek us out to say hello. It would be great to catch up.
Find something of interest on the agenda (and the registration info).
Geospatial team leadership course
Whether you’re developing business cases, influencing decision makers or marketing products and services the Geospatial Leadership Certificate (GLC) is designed for you and your organisation.
This is a £course run by ConsultingWhere.
Once enrolled you’ll be assigned a tutor who will contact you for extra information about you, your organisation and what you wish to get most from the course.
