It has been six years since the Home Office shared findings from its ‘Multi-Agency Working and Information Sharing Project’; calling for greater collaboration across UK government, public sector bodies, and private sector partners.

So where are we today? Has greater multi-agency collaboration improved decision making, quality of service, and cost?

A new study from Huddle, comprising interviews with more than 600 public sector employees in the UK,  has revealed that when Government agencies and their partners look to collaborate on multi-agency initiatives and share information, project groups often experience security and productivity challenges caused by a lack of a shared IT infrastructure.