Improving business performance through information
Developed in partnership for over a decade, LG Inform Plus is your essential subscription service for shaping, running and improving your business.
LG Inform Plus gives you access to more than 2.4 billion data values
17,000+ regularly updated data items from 50 different data sources covering 275 different collections
Sources include Census, Office of National Statistics (ONS), Public Health England, government departments. Topics include public services, health, ethnicity, finance, crime and much more, regularly refreshed by our data team.
Latest population statistics for England and Wales covering 60 million people
Population data by area, plus Parliamentary constituencies, commissioning groups, enterprise partnerships and more. Create tailored maps to show data in meaningful ways.
3,800 links to current local government legislation
Help manage your legal duties with regular updates. Make sure the right services are provided to communities.
1,890+ Records retention schedules for over 100 different service areas
Save money by understanding how long records should be kept. Highlight records where personal and special data is kept in-line with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
1,000 individual council service standards from 175 different service areas
Publish data more consistently and see how well your organisation makes use of data in key decision making. Take a 360-degree view of local government services, functions and citizen needs.
LG Inform Plus helps you
Get a better understanding of your area
Access hard facts and learn the key issues on your doorstep such as - health, housing, social care, crime, and many more.
View and share reports from professionally designed templates that draw from over two billion data values covering all English areas and geographies - local authority, wards, Parliamentary constituencies, commissioning groups, enterprise partnerships and many more.
Build your business case for change.
Use our 17,000+ data items to re-design your services. Or add in local data to supplement our national information sets.
Create local reports containing quality infographics to meet your local needs and priorities.
Use our records retention schedules to rationalise the storage and save money through timely and correct record storage.
Keep up to date with changing legislation and know what services you must deliver and what is discretional.
Become more compliant with new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Legislation through understanding where 'personal' and 'special' customer information is held in your organisation and build the mandated Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) quickly.
Use data from 50 public sources in one consistent format via a simple feed.
Define and publish your own data and geographies to supplement official national sources.
Publish your own information to Standards used by other councils so you can readily compare and combine data.