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Geospatial Commission: NUAR One-team
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
There are approximately 4 million kilometres of underground pipes and cables nationally and a hole dug every 7 seconds installing and maintaining them. Asset owners are legally required to share location data supporting ‘safe digging,’ but with no standardised approach, multiple organisations must be contacted for every dig. That is why the Geospatial Commission is building The National Underground Asset Register – a digital map of underground pipes and cables, that gives planners and excavators instant access to the data they need to work safely, reducing a 6.1-day process to 60 seconds, providing estimated economic benefits of over £400m annually.

SCA NINO Team
HM Revenue & Customs

Suffolk supported families
Department for Work and Pensions
Suffolk Supported Families have been pioneering positive change for vulnerable and complex families on behalf of Suffolk jobcentres since 2012, putting innovation at the core of everything they do the team successfully support, coach and mentor families identified as living in crisis and have achieved excellent outcomes for some of the most complex communities in their County. Working in close collaboration with the local authorities, other government agencies and key charitable and community stakeholders the team have broken through barriers and overcome multigenerational dependency on benefits and social justice services. The team, although small, is achieving monumental outcomes.