Type
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Vocabulary |
Title
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Local Government Agency Types List (LGATL) |
Description
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Hierarchical list giving standard definitions of agency types involved in delivering public sector and community services. |
Purpose
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To identify what services are relevant to an oganisation and what role it might play in a partnership derived from its type. |
Version
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0.01 |
Current status
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Draft
Last updated April 2005
Currently under review by esd-toolkit Business Improvement group.
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Location
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www.esd.org.uk/standards/lgatl |
Scope
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Local Government |
Custodian
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esd-Toolkit Controlled Lists Group |
Development
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The esd-toolkit workshops the content with public sector officers concerned with multi-agency service delivery. It also provides a public forum to receive and debate comments and proposals for alterations.
Implementation support is provided via the forum by Porism on behalf of the esd-toolkit, and various practioners.
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License
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Owned' by esd-toolkit. Reuse encouraged - available for download without licence or payment. |
How Implemented
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esd-toolkit cross-references LGAtL with standard departments (Education, Housing, Fire, etc) in LGDL, which is in turn cross-referenced with services defined by LGSL. Hence, when an organisation (eg a Scottish council, an English District council or a Fire authority) is assigned an LGAtL agency type, its likely structure and services are derived.
LGAtL can be referenced in data sources (eg XML data delivered b councils to Local Directgov) to denote the type of agency.
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Benefits
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· Identifies the types of agency with whom local authorities might work in partnership to deliver services
· Can be seen as listing the types of agency responsible for delivering services
- Can aid delivery of the right type of information to each agency
- Can identify the type of service information that might be expected from an agency (eg in populating a web portal)
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Take Up
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22 public sector and 3 private sector organisations have registered to be notfied of updates to LGAtL |