Does your ICT service deliver value for money? Does it enable and support change in the organisation? Is it efficiently run? Is it pro-active in seeking out the most appropriate technical solutions to meet business needs? And how can you tell?

An ICT benchmarking service designed specifically for smaller local authorities.

The new ICT Benchmarking Lite option from Socitm is designed with the needs of the smaller councils in mind – low cost, more streamlined, and with practical support to deliver service improvement.

Priced at £3750 per annum, here’s what you get:

Business Case for Social Care IT System

Socitm Consulting helped the London Borough of Sutton (LBS) to transform its Adult and Children’s Social Care IT Service to meet the needs of the Transforming Social Care Agenda.

LBS recognised that to meet these requirements, they needed to ensure that the IT service provided to both Adult and Childen’s Social Care Services was adequate for current and future needs. There was some dissatisfaction with the current system and support and doubt that it would be able to help them meet the agenda.

Why pose these questions? Your ICT function may deliver 99.9% service availability and deliver projects on time and on budget, but this is no longer enough. Unlocking the value of information by making it available to citizens, businesses, partners and employees just when they want it, in the format that they need it, and only what they need and no more, requires inspiration, imagination and innovation.

Many IT services have undergone major cuts and restructuring in recent months, often resulting in the loss of some of the best people, and of the source of much of the detailed knowledge that helps to make the ICT service perform.

Adoption of cloud computing makes complete sense - for user organisations, at least — and most of us already use the cloud on a daily basis as private citizens. What are the obstacles to public sector take-up, and how can they be overcome?

We have the skills and the tools to help you achieve a website that delivers for your council - that is a website that gives real value in terms of the services it delivers to your customers and the savings it makes for the council. We cover all that is needed, summarised below:

For many councils, integrating the website with the back-office systems can be seen as complicated and expensive - in some cases giving rise to estimated costs of £1 million of more - but it doesn't need to be complicated or expensive.

For a step by step guide, click on the diagram to see more detail