Digging deep: The picture beneath the data on human trafficking

Initiatives to bring and use data in local government are emerging all around us. Calls for tenders, discussions in webinars and all-night hackathons are all deriving ways to use data to support better decision making around societal problems. Such problems that councils, townhalls and municipalities must deal with because they deeply affect their areas.

How to solve homelessness? Let’s look at the data. How to address domestic violence? Well, what does the data tell us? Child poverty on the rise? Can we use data to understand why?