Wigan Council and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have made significant progress in their work on the Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability (SAVVI) programme.
They are playing lead roles in two of the workstreams of the programme run by iStandUK to develop standards for data to protect vulnerable people.
iStandUK said in a blogpost that along with Wigan it has developed a SAVVI compatible data model for finding and supporting people who might be vulnerable in a flood and reached a milestone in the relevant information governance.
This involves a risk index, updated nightly by an automated process, with data on households and individuals in different risk categories based on secondary data. It will be used in the event of a flood warning to priorities people less likely to be able to protect their property or safely leave it without support.
This has been accompanied by the development of a data protection impact assessment that is now under review.
The council is now working with iStandUK on the attributes needed to identify people vulnerable to other types of emergency.
Manchester data mesh
GMCA has made progress with its plan to develop a data mesh - in which data is treated as a product and owned by teams that know and use it – to support its Supporting Troubled Families (SFP) programme, with the development a SAVVI compliant version of the SFP outcomes framework. iStand said this will enable the data mesh to use SAVVI compliant metadata for transmitting SFP data.
Further work is now taking place on compatible data attributes that could be used to identify households where children are at risk of not spending time at school or becoming involved with crime.
This will be followed by development of data attributes and metadata for another 30 needs and 64 outcomes.
