Response 3889553

Response to request for information

Reference

3889553

Response date

20 January 2026

Request

Information relating to uses of data analytics, predictive analytics, or algorithmic automated systems used for processing, risk assessment, scoring systems or automated decision making within the jurisdiction of your authority. This could include the use of these data systems in order to draw insights from large and integrated datasets, or to influence decisions about resources, funding or service delivery. This could include, but may not be limited to, uses of predictive analytics in children’s services, adult social care, health care, housing and homelessness, low-income and debt support, fraud detection, or policing.

1. Please can you provide a list of the council’s data analytics, predictive analytics, or algorithmic automated systems?
2. Which areas are they used in? (For example, “children’s services relating to Child Criminal Exploitation” or “homelessness provision”).
3. Which different datasets are used to contribute to this and where does the data come from?
4. Please can you tell me the names of any projects, provisions, or pilots you have at the moment relating to these?
5. The names of companies you have contracts with to supply data analytics, predictive analytics, or algorithmic automated systems.
6. The amount of funding supplied by any companies relating to data analytics.

Response

Nil to all questions.