The initial meeting of the Members Portal Advisory Group was held in October to reaffirm the aims of the Members Portal Project. These are:
- to arm Elected Members with skills, tools and techniques to deliver a professional service
- to deliver a ‘fit for purpose' National Caseload Management system for Elected Members using the Lagan platform
The meeting was held in North Lanarkshire Council and was attended by five of the seven councils participating in the first phase of the project. Argyll & Bute is the lead council for the project.
To date, the Scottish Lagan User Group has established the demand from seven councils, defining the high level scope and the top 10 processes. The Advisory Group agreed to continue this input to the development to shape the outputs, timescales and implementation plans. Agreement was reached on a number of assumptions informing the development specifically around the areas of Data Sharing Consent and Data Security.
Lagan has been developing a prototype system and the Group was shown scenarios using prototype screen shots to understand how the module would look and work. As anticipated a number of areas of discussion were generated and a list of questions for clarification captured. Lagan is reviewing these and the Improvement Service will feedback its responses to the participating councils. The Improvement Service is also progressing the development of centrally hosting the web element of the module in line with the National CRM strategic aims.
Initial acceptance testing against the original requirements specification is still on schedule for mid December with Argyll & Bute. A more formal plan for wider implementation will be agreed on the completion of the acceptance testing.
