Information Governance

LeGSB, working with the London Borough of Newham provides an Information Governance Toolkit, which acts as a maturity model, so that a Local Authority can assess itself, and produce an improvement plan.

The toolkit covers five topics

Management of Information Governance
Information Security
Compliance
Quality Assurance and Data Quality
Records Management

The toolkit comprises

LeGSB is also working with NHS-Connecting for Health, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services who are working to produce an Adult Social Care Information Governance Toolkit, which is a necessary compliance regime for connection to the N3 network.

The Audit Commision issued a set of Data Quality standards in 2007, some of which also overlap with the requirements of the the Information Governance Toolkits.

The Government Connect Code of Connectivity also contains some requirements in the same scope.

LeGSB, in association with the NHS Connecting for Health Policy team, are arranging a workshop in January 2008, with the aims to,

Confirming similarities and overlaps between

The Local Government Information Governance Toolkit from LeGSB

The Adult Social Care Information Governance Toolkit from Connecting for Health

Other guidance, standards, compliance regimes for Local Government

... and considering how to work together to produce the ‘ultimate’ toolkit.

Considering how to maintain, and further develop, an integrated Information Governance toolkit and supporting on-line tools.

Consider how to engage with the Cabinet Office to position an integrated toolkit as an assurance tool to deliver against the National Information Assurance Strategy.

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