Tanni Grey-Thompson: Councils must protect staff with data skills

Financial pressures will make it tempting to cut research and analysis teams but covid revealed the importance of having people with these skills, writes the president of the Local Government Association.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson spoke about the value of using data to identify and tackle inequalities in local areas, to support different groups facing difficulties, at the LARIA one-day event that took place on Thursday 16 November. Read more here.