Agenda item

To seek approval for a number of ICT Policies provided by Central Government.

(Report attached.  Appendices available in Group Rooms and via the website.)

The Committee considered a number of documents supplied by central Government that would help to ensure that the Council was compliant with the Code of Connection. Compliance with the Code was essential to ensure that the Council could operate certain key services.

It was made clear that summaries of the documents would be available to Officers as it was recognised that the documents in their entirety were impractical for day to day use or reference. The obligations on Officers contained within these documents would also be communicated through the staff induction process.

Officers commented that they were already investigating or would investigate potential issues in the following areas:

• printing and access more generally through Citrix;
• the enabling of the use of personal lap-tops in the Town Hall through the installation of Wi-Fi;
• the forwarding of blocked e-mails to Redditch Helpdesk rather than Bromsgrove Helpdesk where appropriate; and
• the problems experienced by some Housing Officers over the locations of their telephones.

RECOMMENDED that

the documents, at Appendix 1 to the report, be approved for use and apply to all members of staff and Councillors.