Strong leadership will be vital to bring about a more corporate approach to council services. He acknowledged the need for SE leadership but this had to be addressed within the context of councils being autonomous bodies tasked specifically to deliver their own services. The Forum would be a key mechanism for promoting collaberation. Mr Peacock introduced this item and re-capped some of the discussion that had taken place about UK Online at the earlier meeting. The timetable for UK Online has been lengthened, which was welcome, and the SE was now working to ensure that the Scottish dimension to the portal has some substantial content.
Consistency is a vital component.
Some councils had already looked at how to progress the life cycle event component of the portal and East Ayrshire in particular was looking to pilot some of its work. Aberdeen was also looking at how its website could be used as a portal to deliver life cycle based services. The information contained on this WWW site is Crown Copyright but may be reproduced without formal permission or charge for personal or in-house use.