Building new capabilities at the Home Office

PAR002_123 • 7 June 2022

The way the Home Office delivered technology services was changing. They wanted to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of their IT services whilst retaining full control of their systems and operations.


Key to the careful management of exiting long-term outsourced arrangements, and incrementally delivering new and transformed capabilities across Home Office Digital, Data and Technology, was for the Home Office to take over as service and system integrator. This would require building and retaining the right skills and knowledge in-house, broadening existing accountabilities and building new capabilities.


Methods was engaged to deliver the programme, providing a fully managed team, structure, governance, and control. This ensured that the transition was conducted in a controlled manner, ensuring a smooth transition delivered with minimal impact to operations.


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Migrating 22 years of data and 122 million records

by PAR002_123 • 7 June 2022
The Athena programme brings forces together to connect information, align processes and share costs. Through a shared investment in the CONNECT platform and infrastructure, Athena helps forces to shift resources from the back office to the front line. By stripping out time-consuming manual processes and connecting easily with police, court service and Crown Prosecution Service systems, it means forces can work faster and achieve more. Kent Police committed to implementing the Athena integrated information management system which for Kent Police, involved migrating 22 years of data, 122 million records. The aim of the project was to migrate all relevant data from the legacy system without any degradation of Kent Police’s operational capacity. To find out more about our work in the criminal justice and policing sector, please visit here To view the the full customer story please click here

Collaborating on a mobile solution that would reflect the priorities of two police forces

by PAR002_123 • 7 June 2022
Essex Police and Kent Police are a collaborative force sharing back office and support functions. The mobile policing programme, ‘Mobile First’, is part of a wider transformational change programme, to improve the way that policing services are provided to members of the public and local communities. With operational budget reductions year on year, the programme business case needed to reflect the priorities and objectives of both Essex Police and Kent Police. Both forces had different ways of working and the implementation of new technology required the redesign of business processes that met the operational requirements of both forces. To find out more about our work in the criminal justice and policing sector, please visit here . To view the the full customer story please click here

Migrating legacy services safely, quickly, and effectively

by PAR002_123 • 7 June 2022
Methods helps clients to move or deploy IT Services through our Service Transition & Service Introduction (STSI). Service transition focuses on the movement of operational IT Services into new support arrangements, whilst service introduction ensures new services are deployed effectively into live operation. Our client was moving from monolithic support arrangements to a more disaggregated supplier model, utilising a service integrator. This presents an opportunity to move from a reliance on a vendor-selected toolset, to best in class cloud-based toolsets. The challenge is to migrate legacy services and introduce new services, safely, quickly and effectively whilst maintaining excellent service levels. If you would like to find out more about Methods Managed Services, you can visit our services page . To view the full customer story click here