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A user-centred approach to the new school medical form
Explores how Croydon Council's User-Centred Design team tackled the challenge of improving the school medical form.
From building control to bin replacements: putting user-centred design first
Croydon Council’s digital platform team has relished the chance to move on from Covid apps in the last 12 months.
BT partners with Croydon Council to boost mobile coverage
"We have worked closely with our local authority partners to utilise their street furniture, as well as our own assets, to improve connectivity in these areas."
New apps share the love in South Norwood, Purley and Thornton Heath
Three apps are launching to help residents shop local and keep up with news, businesses, events and offers.
Croydon residents to benefit from new high-tech bus shelters
Smart bus shelters are coming to the borough thanks to a partnership between Croydon Council and VALO.
Shaping the Future: takeaways from City Futurescapes at LSBU Croydon
This year's City Futurescapes event took place in Croydon, bringing together tech organisations to discuss opportunities in the borough and beyond.
The new croydon.gov.uk: looking back on going live
Croydon Council's website moved to LocalGov Drupal earlier this year. Here's a retrospective.
Successful 4G mobile connectivity project expands to other Croydon areas
The small cell technology will pave the way for Croydon to adopt 5G.
Croydon Council’s low code platform: delivering more for less
The technology has enabled the council’s digital department, CDS, to support the council’s pandemic efforts alongside building better online services for residents.
Apply now: Up to £20,000 innovation grants available to Croydon businesses
The Business Recovery & Innovation Grants Fund makes government funds available to support Croydon businesses impacted by the pandemic.
Croydon goes live with LocalGov Drupal
The council's new website reaches a major milestone as it switches to the open source codebase, built by councils for councils.
Using the Internet of Things to improve residents’ lives
VRM is working with Croydon Council to increase the comfort and safety of living spaces while reducing energy consumption.
EMSOL teams up with Croydon Council to tackle pollution
EMSOL is working with Croydon Council to reduce air pollution with innovative digital tools.
Leeds and Croydon are creating a digital inclusion toolkit
Leeds and Croydon Councils recently won central government funding to create a comprehensive and collaborative how-to guide for digital inclusion.
Results of Adult Support Croydon alpha service assessment
The council assesses another of its digital public services against the government service standard.
Designing a service status page for Croydon.gov.uk
The council's website delivery team designed a new page to collate all the changes to council services during lockdown in one easy-to-navigate spot.
Croydon named one of the UK’s top 10 tech destinations
Croydon ranks among the top spots in the country for tech businesses, according to research by UHY Hacker Young.
What CDS really built during Covid-19: momentum, collaboration and trust
How rapid delivery in response to the current crisis helped Croydon council's digital team to up its game.
First ever online council meeting – how Croydon did it, how it will scale
A behind-the-scenes look at how Croydon ran a public council meeting online for the first time in its history.
Believe! The magic of low-code platforms
With so many service lines needing digitisation, some councils including Croydon are now exploring the new marketplace of "low-code platforms" to rapidly create new apps and digital services at scale.
Come to the Croydon Digital Service open day on Thursday 2 April
Visit CDS in the heart of the Cronx and see local government digital transformation in action!
It’s a lock-in! Kicking off 2020 with 2 days of rapid decision-making
How the council’s digital team ran intensive sessions to supercharge their agile practice for the year ahead.
Overcoming the barriers to code sharing between councils
Croydon and three other councils are starting a project in January to understand the uses and limitations of sharing a Drupal 8 publishing platform.
Croydon’s first Technology Enabled Care event coming Wednesday 27 November
I've spent 19 years working in different services in health and social care, so I've watched as new initiatives have changed how we care for the most vulnerable people in our society.
A potted history of the Croydon.gov.uk website
Now this is a post all about how council comms got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how we first got a website in the town called Croydon.
Designing content for the council’s new website alpha
Content design is a big part of our website redesign project. Find out how we're tackling over 2,500 webpages to make them clearer and easier for users.
Building a better council website for Croydon
A look behind the scenes at how the council's digital team is overhauling croydon.gov.uk to better meet residents' needs.
Making information easier to find for families of children with SEND
We redesigned the Local Offer website aimed at families of children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) to make it simpler and quicker to find what they need.
Introducing multidisciplinary teams at the Croydon Digital Service
We adopted a new way of working and had to make it fit to a local authority setting - here's what we learned.
Croydon teams up with 4 other councils on user research
From a Twitter post to planning a cross-council collaboration, all it took was some reciprocal admiration and friendly rivalry.
Meet the Croydon Digital Service user research team
Croydon Council has founded a new user research team to put people at the heart of every product we build. Learn more about how to get involved.
OneTeamGov comes to Croydon: OneTeamCronx is born!
Croydon Council, the Home Office and the Land Registry were some of the organisations taking part at the first Croydon meeting of this boundary-breaking public sector movement.
Croydon Council is sharing a publishing platform with Brighton & Hove
Rather than reinventing the wheel, Croydon Council has agreed with Brighton & Hove City Council to re-use its web publishing platform and work on updates together
Our plan to deliver connectivity in Croydon
The council's official action plan for delivering the connectivity we need to be a world-class digital borough.
New beginnings for tech at the council as we launch CDS
How multidisciplinary teams are making the council's digital delivery more agile and less prone to silo working.
About the Croydon Digital Service
The new team in the council, leading the digital transformation of the council's services, and the digital enhancement of our borough.