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Learning from those that lead, helping those in need.

Collaboration is a team sport, and the outputs of LocalGov Digital aim to assist this. Whether it's our Unmentoring scheme, the Local Government Digital Service Standard , or organising events like Not Westminster or LocalGovCamp  (in Birmingham on 3/4 June), what we do helps foster a cross-sector approach to delivering better public services locally. Perhaps a more traditional way of trying to join things up is to highlight or even fund best practice in digital service design and delivery and hope others follow. Whilst it's entirely valid to promote the work of those who lead the way, if we were talking about a school or a care home, those that are failing would also be in focus too. So I have a question for you; does just highlighting and funding best practice only make the best even better, and should we also be focusing on those who aren't doing so well too. Let me be clear here. When I say focus on those that are failing, I don't mean with a view to taking