Xantura

The solution? Use data to help people work together better It was in this context that we founded Xantura in 2008, with a mission to make the difficult possible. Our first project as Xantura was on effective partnership data management for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The aim was to see if it was viable to bring data from partners with common clients together at a local level. The high-level blueprint and set of principles that came out of this work have been the basis of our OneView platform ever since. At around the same time, the Government cancelled two relevant programmes: ContactPoint (designed to consolidate children’s safeguarding data across English councils) and the NHS Programme for IT. There were many reasons for this, including concerns with information governance and the complexity of technology. But cases like Baby P reinforced how important it was to overcome these objections – and start changing lives through data.