The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham has established an ‘Insight Hub’ team that works closely with the leadership of the organisation. In this interview, Sal Asghar, Strategy and Performance Manager, and Pye Nyunt, Insight Hub Manager, tell us how data is being used to drive policy.
What is the Insight Hub?
The Insight Hub is a team of both data and behavioural scientists who sit in the strategic core of the organisation. The key responsibilities of the team are to support the organisation in forecasting demand into services, develop a deep understanding of the residents in the community, embed and make better use of data in the design of local policy and introduce behavioural science techniques into the delivery of interventions.
