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Dwayne Johnson, a former council chief executive, on the five things that make AI work in councils: leadership, people, data, approach and governance.

Every council starts from a different place. Aneeq Star on why proven AI tools still need a plan that fits your council - and what an assessment gives you.

Martin Neale on why AI pilots can't close local government's structural deficit, and what a whole-council AI programme does differently.

Examine information checks, human decisions and the evidence you need to assess an AI workflow, using fictional university webinar demonstrations.

Explore ICS.AI’s Education Strategy Forum highlights, including how Bournemouth University’s AI assessment revealed the potential to transform university operation.

Six takeaways from our SMART: AI Assessment webinar on where councils should start with AI, what it can save and how to build a plan finance will back.

How ICS.AI brought its UK-wide team together in regional hubs, and the themes shaping our next chapter: AI that acts, velocity and people in control.

After Scotland's most extensive council AI assessment, Renfrewshire selects ICS.AI for a £5m+ transformation programme to support staff and transform services.

ICS.AI proudly sponsored Derby City Council's Here for Derby Awards 2026 for the fourth year running, celebrating Team Derby's achievements as the council continues its AI transformation journey.

Bournemouth University returns as a contributor after attending our previous event. Join senior university and FE college leaders at Nottingham Trent University on 27 October to explore its AI transformation journey, the decisions behind progress and the barriers institutions still face.

Martin Neale, CEO of ICS.AI, on why fragmented data - not budget - is the real blocker to council transformation, and how AI can help fix it.

This is the second release from The State of AI in Britain 2026, our national survey of 2,000 UK adults. Our last post looked at how ready the country feels about AI. This time, we go underneath the national averages, into how the picture shifts by gender and age.

University AI pilots can prove what is possible, but lasting value requires more than isolated experiments. Explore why pilots stall, the capabilities universities need to scale AI responsibly, and how a clear operating model can turn experimentation into institutional transformation.

The hardest part of reaching safe and legal in LGR is not the work you can see, but the work you would never think to look for. That knowledge already exists.

ICS.AI has secured its largest-ever G-Cloud presence, with 319 AI solutions live on G-Cloud 15 across local government, health, education, blue light and central government - up from 46 on G-Cloud 14.

Solihull Council has appointed ICS.AI to deliver a 24-week AI Transformation Discovery programme, identifying AI opportunities and business cases across key council services.

Ask a generic AI about your late-submission policy, and it'll answer confidently, and sometimes completely wrongly, because it's working from memory, not your actual documents. Here's why that happens, why it matters for HE and FE, and what "grounding" actually fixes.

New ICS.AI research finds 58% of Britons think the UK is unprepared for AI's economic impact. ICS.AI calls for a national Sovereign AI Charter.

New research from ICS.AI: 2,000 UK adults on AI at work, in public services and the economy. Most say Britain isn't moving fast enough - read the full report.

Every reorganisation begins by building a picture of what the councils hold. Building it is not the hard part. Keeping it true is. Why the baseline should be kept, not rebuilt.