Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director – Community and Resources, on the Information Governance (IG) Annual Report for 2014/15 which contributed to the Council’s assurance framework and good governance.

Members were advised that there were a number of pieces of legislation and good practice standards that govern the IG arrangements of the Council.  The work of IG was primarily based on the requirements of the Local Authority Data Handling guidelines, ISO27001 (standard for information security), Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

RESOLVED: That the contents of the Annual Report for 2014/15 be noted.