Case Study: Orkney Islands Council tackles housing affordability, education access and fuel poverty with CACI’s Paycheck

Orkney Islands Council secures HNDA approval with CACI Paycheck for 22 islands

The Orkney Islands Council, the smallest local authority in the UK, faced significant challenges due to its small, widespread population. This made it difficult to acquire robust and credible data for benchmarking, which was needed to address key issues like housing affordability, education accessibility, and the UK's highest rates of fuel poverty. To overcome this lack of cohesive, Orkney-specific information, the council partnered with vendor CACI Limited and licensed its Paycheck income dataset.

CACI's Paycheck solution provided the council with granular data on resident incomes, enabling an updated and approved Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) that prevented a costly overhaul. The data was also instrumental in redefining financial realities for residents, allowing the council to strategically target support for those most at risk from fuel poverty and to reallocate educational resources to areas of deprivation. Ultimately, CACI's data became an indispensable tool for the council's comprehensive, data-driven strategy.

Orkney Islands Council