When information and data is well managed and recognised as a key corporate asset, it can deliver a range of benefts for customers, employees and the council and its partners more widely.
Customers
- Information and data is accurate, reliable, and accessible.
- When help is needed from the council, information is easy and intuitive to find.
- Increasingly, services and support are accessible digitally at a time that suits the customer.
- When services or support are requested, the response is prompt and effective and services work well together.
- There will be increased confidence that customer information is secure and being used appropriately.
- Decisions made that affect the customer will be transparent with increased accountability.
Employees
- The information employees need to do their job effectively is readily accessible.
- Improved access to the data will support better decision and improved outcomes for our customers.
- Services will work more effectively and confidently in collaboration with other services and partners.
- Information and data is re-used and shared more effectively, duplication is reduced, and services are more efficient.
- There is a clear understanding of responsibilities relating to the collection, storage, sharing, disposal and historical preservation of data.
- There will be an increased confidence in the compliance with legal responsibilities.
Council Services
- Will be responsive to changing customer expectations around access to services digitally.
- Data and information will be used effectively to deliver good quality services.
- Duplication will be identified and reduced to increase value for money.
- We can demonstrate that information and data is held securely and used responsibly, in accordance with the law.
- We are increasingly transparent in the way we design and run services and allow ourselves to be held to account.
- Accurate, compliant, and up to date information will support decisions we make around future priorities, policies and service design and delivery.
- We are securing and holding information and data for the benefit of future generations.
- We can work more effectively with our partners to deliver a more ‘joined up’ approach to deliver improved outcomes for customers.