Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council is consolidating its
policy management onto a single platform to streamline the approval
process for web usage and other areas.
The council will use the
Netconsent Enterprise Policy Management
suite. This follows a successful project to automate
distribution and staff approval processes for its acceptable
internet usage policy using Netconsent’s Webconsent module.
Wigan will now distribute all its corporate governance policies
using Netconsent. The initial project using the Webconsent module
has enabled the council to significantly reduce the time and money
required to distribute its acceptable internet usage policy to more
than 4,000 employees across various offices and partner
organisations.
The system also manages access to the internet until a user
accepts the policy with a digital signature.
Expanding the system to distribute all policies will result in
further cost savings and satisfy audit requirements, said the
council.
Netconsent provides the council with a real-time, secure audit
trail that supports any disciplinary action should it become
necessary.
Peter Livesey, Wigan assistant director of finance and IT, said,
“The Netconsent suite has everything we need to create a single,
consistent, authority-wide process for managing our policies.
“This will not only mean that money can be saved against
manually distributing and approving our policies, but will also
enable more to be spent on service delivery for our residents.”
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