Janice Handley, Programme Manager
@janice_handley

• Strategy document published
– Ties in with Scottish Government’s Digital Public
Services (DPS) agenda
• LG ICT Strategy Board formed
• Programme Management Office (PMO) set up

ICT Collaboration:
• Do it ONCE (not 32 times) to save time/effort and money
• Do it TOGETHER – joined up services with other sectors/partners
Supporting the principles of:
• Reuse/share first
• Simplify/standardise/automate
• Customer driven
In order to “deliver better service for communities”

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Updated Board Membership
4 SOCITM representatives:
• Irene McKelvey
• Charlie Anderson
• Nicola Graham
• Ged Bell
4 SOLACE representatives:
• Lorraine McMillan (chair and
SOLACE ICT portfolio holder)
• Michelle Morris
• Annemarie O’Donnell
• Richard Stiff
4 “partner” organisations:
• Paul Dowie - Improvement Service
• Julie Welsh - Scotland Excel
• Andy Robertson - NHS National
Services Scotland
• Kay Brown – SEEMiS
Standing invitations (nonvoting):
• Barbara Lindsay - COSLA
• Jane Morgan/Julie Kane - Scottish
Government

Programme Workstreams
Enabling Public
Sector Reform
Reduce
Costs
More
Digital
Services
Organisational
Support

Digital Services Workstream
Richard Stiff/Irene McKelvey
Online School Payments
Framework procurement: end October available
NEC Online
Development/Integration: November
New cards using MyGovScot logo
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Health (MDMW) & Edinburgh Council live
Others (NHS & LG) using back office/onboarding soon
Online Licensing
User group set up
Building current landscape following analysis and engagement undertaken in 2013
More Digital
Services

Reduced Costs Workstream
Michelle Morris/Julie Welsh/Kay Brown
SWAN – National Procurement
LG representation
Encouraging LA’s to “hub up”....
Supplier Management
LG specific existing contracts
Data Centres/Hosting
LG representation in strategy development
New group to respond to national strategy
Reduce
Costs

Enabling Reform Workstream
Paul Dowie/Charlie Anderson/Nicola Graham
Scottish Welfare Fund
• Options Analysis for national system
Information Sharing – National Programme
• Health & Social Care
Reference Architecture for LG
Mobile & Flexible Working
Self Directed Support (SDS) solutions
Enabling
Public Sector
Reform

Organisational Support Workstream
Lorraine McMillan/Kay Brown
New Governance & Collaboration Model
• Collaborative Hub (“Co-Hub”)
Measuring progress against National (SG) Benefits
Framework
LG Workforce Development
• IBM Top Talent - Scottish Programme (21)
• Digital Champions – Cohorts 1 & 2 (14) Organisational
Support

• Small “core” PMO team
• IS/SEEMiS/Scotland Excel/NSS resources
• LG Input to:
– Board
– Workstream Groups
– Individual projects/specific user groups i.e. You and your colleagues - >150 individuals

Your voice being heard on LG issues
Your input to national/sectoral agendas
Your chance to influence what happens next
“working with and for Local Government”
“delivering better service for communities”

Contact Us
Knowledge Hub: Scottish LG ICT Group
Website: www.lgictstrategy.org.uk
Email: comms@lgictstrategy.org.uk
Twitter: @SCOT_LOGICT
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Let’s collaborate on ICT