Despite growing awareness of the need for multi-agency collaboration, technical barriers continue to hinder effective data sharing across the public sector. Legacy systems, restricted APIs, incompatible formats, and manual processes delay decisions and obscure risks—sometimes with tragic consequences. In this article, Capita’s Justice & Policing lead, Dave Tonks, explores the issue and how siloed systems and resource constraints prevent agencies from accessing and acting on critical information.

It outlines a practical path forward: secure cloud-based infrastructure, standardised data models, and role-based access that enable collaboration without costly system overhauls—helping public sector organisations move from fragmented systems to proactive, preventative action.

Read the article to explore how a secure, scalable approach can help government agencies overcome technical barriers to collaboration.