National project brings councils together to tackle risks to all local services
Councils are to be invited to take part in a major collaborative project to assess the risks to the roll-out of local eGovernment, eGov monitor can report.
The joint initiative aims to analyse the risk and levels of authentication required for 672 local government services across 10 different types of interaction.
The move comes after the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister asked each council in England to carry out a risk assessment of all their services as part of their Implementing Electronic Government return.
Councils also need to complete this work before they can join the new Government Connect initiative, which is supporting a joint approach to the task.
To share the workload, the plan is for each council to take on the job of assessing 30 of the 672 services. The results will be gathered and shared through the Improvement and Development Agency's esd-toolkit service.
The overall project is described as a "significant undertaking".
Signing up for the project will mean that once complete, councils can state that they met the risk-assessment requirement.
Participating authorities will be given a support pack that will include a risk assessment tool and guidance.
Council chief executives are due to be emailed with details of the offer next week.
UPDATE 23 May 2005: The email will be sent out after the Bank Holiday.
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