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<p>As announced in last year’s loneliness strategy, ‘A connected society - A strategy
for tackling loneliness’, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, in collaboration
with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, has partnered with
the Local Government Association to run a series of pilots to explore how local authorities
and their partners can capture and share information on local activities and support
that might help to tackle loneliness.</p><p>Partners across local government, digital
experts and representatives from the voluntary sector have helped to shape the scope
of the pilots. Building on existing work carried out with local authorities to provide
quality assured categorised place-wide service data, these pilots will seek to test
and refine data standards and taxonomies, investigate ways of collecting information
to make them more efficient, accurate and sustainable, and explore how stakeholders
from a range of sectors can be motivated to capture this data and keep it up to date.
Data and learning will be published in order to encourage wider take-up by other local
authorities by the end of March 2020.</p><p>Local authority areas in England have
now been selected through an expression of interest process, details of which will
be announced later this year.</p>
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