Issue - meetings

Report No:   CAB/SE/18/019

Portfolio Holder: Ian HoulderLead Officer: Rachael Mann

RESOLVED:

That the West Suffolk Information Framework, attached as Appendix A to Report No: OAS/SE/18/008, be approved.

The Cabinet considered Report No: CAB/SE/18/019, which sought approval for a new West Suffolk Information Framework.

A joint Task and Finish Group, comprising Members of Forest Heath District and St Edmundsbury Borough Councils’ Overview and Scrutiny Committees, had been established to devise a new Information Framework. The Framework represented a revised approach to data and the way the West Suffolk Councils used it. It provided a high level summary of the current position, and proposed an approach that sought to maximise the Councils’ data assets through aligning data across West Suffolk Councils and its partners to improve the services provided, and create better outcomes for residents, customers, visitors, businesses, partners and communities.

The vision and key principles of the Information Framework were summarised in paragraph 1.1.3 of the Cabinet report.  Its aim was to provide councillors, staff, partners and interested members of the public with an overview of the Councils’ direction of travel and its intent with regards to data and information, and was therefore not a delivery document. Detailed individual plans, strategies and service-specific business cases that accorded with this framework would come forward at a later stage.  

Councillor Diane Hind, Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, explained that the Task and Finish Group had been through a thorough and detailed process to devise the draft Information Framework and the Committee had no hesitation in recommending its approval to Cabinet.

Councillor Ian Houlder, Portfolio Holder for Resources and Performance, drew relevant issues to the attention of Cabinet. He also expressed his thanks to the Task and Finish Group and the Committee for bringing this new comprehensive Information Framework forward for adoption.

RESOLVED:

That the West Suffolk Information Framework, attached as Appendix A to Report No: OAS/SE/18/008, be approved.