Social care

Social Services departments fulfil a valuable role in challenging circumstances.

Key issues

• Increasing demand on resources due to an ageing population.
• Coordination with GPs, hospitals and other agencies is essential.
• Managers need to know the precise location of field workers for health and safety purposes.
• Ensuring the health and safety of remote workers

Geographic information can help you:

• Improve decision making and service planning
• Identify trends and distribution of need
• Deliver efficiency improvements
• Realise time and cost savings
• Share information
• Integrate disparate datasets
• facilitate patient choice
• deliver of services that are more convenient and accessible

Case study

London Borough of Sutton

Innovative use of geographic information, underpinned by Ordnance Survey data, within Sutton's Social Services directorate has provided a better service for pupils with special educational needs and has, additionally, saved in excess of £30 000.

Our offering

OS MasterMap® Topography Layer

Our flagship large-scale, polygonised and seamless topographic database product, it offers clear and customisable on-screen mapping, plus the facility to overlay your own data.

OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™ Layer

An accurate, detailed and up-to-date digital map of Great Britain’s road structure, it shows all navigable roads across Great Britain and route information such as width, weight and height restrictions that will assist your drivers' choice of route.

Our partners

You will need specialist software, often referred to as a geographical information system (GIS), to gain maximum benefit from our data products. Our partners provide services ranging from licensing off-the-shelf software right through to building you a bespoke solution that embeds our products.

Interested? Please get in touch

To find out more about how you can benefit from Ordnance Survey's mapping and digital data call the Collective Agreements Team on 023 8079 2706.