The Local eGovernment Standards Body LeGSB

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The Local e-Government Standards Body (LeGSB)

• Anna Harvey
• Technical Director
• Rob Birkett
• Standards Consultant

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Agenda

• Welcome and introductions
• Overview of LeGSB
• Blueprints
• Standards Approvals
• Next steps
• Close

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Local e-Government Standards Body
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e-Standards Body Brief

• capture of best practice and learning in adoption
  of standards based approaches to local
  e-government
• to make information easily accessible for
  Councils, their partners and suppliers
• sustainable ongoing standards process
  organisation

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Why we need Standards

• 388 councils and 600 services
• Individual standards technology, information
  and practice
• Cost eg bespoke maintenance
• Duplication
• Inflexibility and incompatibility
• Scarce and expensive skills
• Delivering priorities
• Priority service and transformation outcomes
• Gershon
• Health and Social Care
• Children Act
• etc

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Role of e-Standards Body National Project

• Consolidate, map and promote potential
  e-government related standards
• Provide a framework for local gov to create its
  own standards
• Support national strategy in the following
  specific areas
• Custodian
• Standards Approvals
• Blueprints

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e-Standards Body helping local government
underpin efficiency

• Custodian
• The national repository of local e-government
  standards and related information.
• Standards Approvals
• a process for the evolution of standards and
  related information, tailored to the needs to
  local authorities and linking with national
  standards development and approvals processes.
• Blueprints
• Bring together standards and related information
  for a specific topic to support efficient and
  effective service delivery and back office
  development.

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Generic Solutions
Knowledge Base
Information Standards
Data Protection
Authentication
Integration
Applications/Bookings
Seamless Access
Infrastructure
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Who is Involved?
the LeGSB Executive Board comprises key
stakeholders

• leading local authority experts practitioners
• leading local authority standards specialists
• Department of Health
• Department of Trade Industry
• Improvement and Development Agency
• Local Government Association
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
• Cabinet Office e-Government Unit
• Society of Information Technology Management
• Society of Local Authority Chief Executives

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Key Strategic Partnerships Collaborations

• LGA e-Government Task Group
• Association of Directors of Social Services - IMG
• SocITM
• e-Government Unit
• NHS Information Standards Board
• DfES
• Adapters Club
• Intellect
• Plus commitment from
• Solace
• IDeA
• London Connects
• DTI

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Local e-Government Standards Body

• Rob Birkett
• Standards Consultant

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What is a Blueprint?

• Have you heard of Blueprints before today?
• What do you believe a blueprint is?

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What is a Blueprint?

• Blueprints bring together all relevant resources
  on a given topic or service in one place.
• Gathering information from a range of sources
• National Projects
• Partnerships
• Local Authorities etc
• Identifying the building blocks required
• Silo services
• Electronic delivery targets
• Using Standards Approvals to provide clear
  standards within a blueprint.

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How do Blueprints Work?

• Simple answer like a dream!
• However, it does get more detailed than that!
• Starting with a general overview of blueprints we
  will then look at a
• Blueprint already underway Social Care
• In order to show how the blueprint process works
  we will need to
• consider three things
• Why a blueprint is required, how is it defined
• How does a blueprint build.
• How do LeGSB ensure that the blueprints works
  and are correct

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Blueprint Building

• The Blueprint builds on recognised work to
• Reveal and clarify conflicts in possible
  standards
• Bring together standards and related material to
  provide a simple delivery mechanism for targets
• Enhance existing work by gathering additional
  knowledge from Local Authority sources often
  left unrecognised by organisations

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Blueprint Building

• Blueprints support the key services priorities
  for Local Authorities
• Services
• Social Care
• Regulatory
• Planning etc
• Includes support for general areas
• Customer Service
• e- Procurement (Gershon)
• And Specialist targets
• ESCR, SAP, ISA, ICS
• Priority Service Transformation Outcomes

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Blueprint Building

• Blueprints help practitioners by
• Bringing together standards relating to a topic
  in the one place
• Providing a single, authoritative, source of
  standards related information
• Accessing sources that may not be easy to reach.
• Ensuring re-use of existing work
• Categorising and contextualising the wide array
  of
• information available
• In other words
• Saving time
• Increasing trust confidence
• Increasing efficiency

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Blueprints in Partnership

• Identify stakeholders
• Councils
• Professional organisations
• National projects
• Develop initial PID with stakeholders
• Information gathering Using stakeholders as
  source and voice
• Initial blueprint complete
• First iteration of consultation with key
  stakeholders
• Rework of Blueprint
• Second iteration of consultation with
  stakeholders and wider contributors rework of
  Blueprint
• Blueprint complete Open consultation for all

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Current Blueprints

• Social Care
• e-Services
• Planning Services
• Trading Standards and Regulatory Services
• In development
• Customer Services
• Smart cards

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Blueprints in Practice Social Care

• A range of targets priorities
• Electronic Social Care Record
• Integrated Childrens System
• IS Indexes (formerly ISA)
• Youth Justice
• And, the Children Act!
• However Sources of information are not
  forthcoming and many Local Authorities see this
  as a grey area.

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Blueprints in Practice - Partnership

• Social Care stakeholders include
• ADSS-IMG
• Department of Health
• IDeA SSU
• NHS
• Content Contributors (Secondary Stakeholders)
  are
• FAME, Ryogens NP
• Partnerships (Such as NWeGG) and Trailblazers
  (Such as Sheffield CC)
• Many Local Authorities, including
• Telford and Wrekin, Liverpool, Knowsley
• Warwickshire, Salford, Devon
• Cambridgeshire, LB Newham, LB Lewisham

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Blueprints
Demo of Custodian and current Blueprints
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The Future of Blueprints

• A full blueprint development plan has been
  developed for the coming year (05/06)
• The blueprints will develop in 2 ways
• The development of silo blueprints within key
  topics similar to Social Care. These will feed
  into
• The development of a critical path which will
  review the targets that have been, and will be,
  placed on Local Authorities and provide the
  underpinning standards that will help in
  achieving these goals.

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The Future of Blueprints

• Currently identified blueprints include Not in
  Priority Order
• Education
• Arts/Culture/Tourism/Leisure
• Housing
• Revenues and Benefits
• Environmental Services
• Life events and Interactions
• E-Democracy
• Highways and Local Transport
• Civil Contingencies/Emergency Planning
• Local Authority Back Office
• Provisions
• Technical Enablers

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Things to remember

• The e-SB is working to help you. To do this we
  need your help in defining our priorities
• The Social Care Blueprint is in consultation and
  is changing to meet the needs of those who
  advise. We cant meet the needs of those who
  dont comment.

In Short
Help us to help you work with us to ensure
blueprints provide you with value.
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Blueprints

• Discussion views, value of blueprints,
  priorities?

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Standards Approvals
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Standards Approvals - Overview

• Standards Approvals is an open process whereby
  the local government community and their partners
  can submit proposals for standards to be created.
  
• The process has a number of stages that allow
  for
• initial assessment and prioritisation, (or
  rejection)
• discussion and consultation with key stakeholders
  and practitioners,
• if necessary a full public consultation,
• a period of live operation,
• and finally approval as a Standard.

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The Process
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Types of Standards
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Progress to date

• Request for Proposal (RFP) form available on
  Custodian
• Several RFPs already lodged and being processed
• 2 standards Approved
• Priority initially given to NPs, now open to all
• Talking with eGU, NHS ISB, Adaptors Club and
  others about harmonising approvals schemes

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Standards Approvals
DEMO of RFP Directory and discussion about
current RFPs
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Next Steps

• Identify and Produce more Blueprints
• Establish more standards
• Develop additional services eg education,
  training, conformance testing, certification
• Establish long-term sustainability
• Current procurement exercise for new Service
  Provider wef 1 April 06

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Contacts

• info_at_legsb.gov.uk
• approvals_at_legsb.gov.uk
• www.legsb.gov.uk
• 080707 607407