To approve the Information & ICT Strategy.

THAT

                     (a)          the importance of information and ICT as being critical to delivering the Council’s objectives is acknowledged; and

(b)                   the strategy be approved.

The Herefordshire Council and NHS Herefordshire do not have a current Information and ICT Strategy, that reflects the nature of partnership working across the public sector to serve the needs of our communities and customers.

The absence of a strategy would leave Herefordshire Public Services without a corporate framework within which the use of information and ICT can be directed to better support achievement of organisational objectives.