LeGSB - News

LeGSB has been working closely with the Department for Communities and Local Government around the Data Interchange Hub, XBRL and an Interoperability Framework for Local Strategic Partnerships.

LeGSB has been advising the Department of Children, Schools and Families on the standards that underpin a number of their programmes of work.

LeGSB has been working with DoH, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), and a number of Local Authorities to propose how a single set of Information Governance measures could be created for Local Government.

Paul Davidson (Director of Standards) has joined the North West Information Sharing Group (NWISG), which has helped to progress LeGSB's thinking on standards for data sharing as a result. The group has made some good suggestions about how the topic can be broken down, so that we now have a model that incorporates

• Semantics - The meaning of information
• Syntax - The structure of information
• Data Quality - The confidence to use information
• Authorisation - The right to use information
• Authentication - Who is accessing information
• Transport - How to move information

• Information Governance - the behaviour and culture to protect and explot information
  

The DWP have appointed the Local e-Government Standards Body (LeGSB) to facilitate the definition of XML schemas and vocabularies necessary to support the transfer of Benefits case data from Job Centre Plus, and the Pensions, Disability and Carers Service, to Local Authorities.