What is LAWs?
The Local Authority Websites National Project (LAWs) is part of an £80m programme initiatives by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and led by West Sussex County Council. It is:
- A transactional website framework for local authorities
- Built on Pathfinder projects such as
- Easy to implement and use
- Inexpensive but robust
Why LAWs?
It will help Local Authorities deliver higher quality and a wider range of services online at lower cost. Its deliverables will help ensure that all councils meet the target of 100% electronically delivered or supported services by 2005.
- All local authorities need transactional websites
- Supports all local authorities in meeting electronic service delivery targets
- Improves access to information and services
- Helps share information between authorities and central government
- Continues the transformation to customer-focused organisations
Introduction
All local authorities must have access to appropriate technological solutions to meet the target of 100% electronically delivered or supported local authority services by 2005.
These solutions need to be customer-focused, standards-based, relatively inexpensive and easy to implement and use. LAWs will build sustainability models for its outcomes and provide local authorities the means to deal with any organisational development implications.
The LAWs National Project will develop a suite of applications that can be implemented in a modular fashion dependent on local technological skills and maturity. Implementation will be supported by a structured knowledge base and best practice guidance. The LAWs project will be completed by 31st March 2004.
The LAWs project builds on a number of Pathfinder projects (including Camden APLAWS, Tameside Web-based services for Local Authority functions, the Sunderland Public Access Gateways and the Welland Community Portals).
Project Partners
There are four main partners in the LAWs project, lead by Roland Mezulis, Project Director (from West Sussex County Council).
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