Off to a MoJ stakeholder world-cafe-style event today. A colleague says these events make her feel like a primary school child doing an exercise for teacher. My Mum says (suuportively, in a Bridget-Jones’ Mum sort of way) how grand it all sounds and “do you get paid”. *Sigh*. No. Of course not. But we’re all in this together.
What does bother me is the first sentence of the MoJ “stakeholder brief”
Effective data sharing has come to play a crucial role in improving delivery of public
and private sector services.
Has it? Is there evidence for that? Isn’t it more of a case that
The pursuit of data sharing per se in public services has created a formidable challenge for data protection and huge responsibilities which government is in no position to fulfil, without any evidence that it improves public services.
Unconstrained, thoughtless data sharing creates a toxic soup ready to spill out on every unregistered CD, memory stick or laptop sold on eBay. Can someone remind me please of any real, practical benefits of data sharing in public services, and give any examples?*
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