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Accelerators/Homelessness

Know who is at risk before they present.

Homelessness analytics for the fastest-rising cost in local government: temporary accommodation, which most authorities can only see after the invoice has arrived.

What we have delivered

2

report modules, built and documented

0

manual steps in a refresh

20+

councils using itelligent-i analytics

Questions it answers

Built around the questions directors ask

Report modules

2 modules, one joined-up view

HHM1

Homelessness

Approaches, duties, prevention and relief.

HHM2

Temporary Accommodation

Placements, nightly cost and length of stay.

These 2 modules are documented and ready on day one. Anything your service reports on that is not here is built on the same framework, as part of the same subscription — this is where we start, not where we stop.

What it takes from you

Not much, and nothing to prepare

We have built homelessness analytics many times before, so we are not starting from a blank page and neither are you. The framework already knows how this service works and where the statutory returns come from. What it needs from you is a little time and your local knowledge.

  • Read-only access, granted once Your IT team sets it up in an afternoon. We read; nothing is ever written back to your systems.
  • A few hours of testing An analyst and a service lead look at the first cut and tell us where a number does not look like theirs. That is the whole of it.
  • Your local definitions Every council counts things a little differently. We tune the framework to how you do it — localising what already exists, not building something new.

There is no data warehouse to stand up first, no discovery phase, and nothing for your team to get ready before we start.

Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Databricks for homelessness, fully managed. If you are on Microsoft, the accelerator is deployed into Microsoft Fabric in your own tenancy, and the homelessness reports land in the Power BI your people already use. Where a Databricks lakehouse suits your estate better, it runs on Databricks instead — and on AWS or Google Cloud if that is your cloud. Either way it is a managed service: we run the platform, the refreshes and the changes your service asks for, so your team uses the reporting rather than maintaining it.

Whatever system your data is in. The framework is source-system agnostic. It reads from the homelessness case management system you already run, and from the other systems that hold part of the picture, and joins them into one view.

Customer documents

The Homelessness accelerator pack, and 2 module specifications.

These are written for customers and are not published openly. Available after sign-in.

Evidence

“We could finally see the cost of a placement while we could still do something about it.”

Local authority customer

Read the case

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See Homelessness running on real data

A 30-minute walkthrough of all 2 modules.