Regional Co-ordination Unit

PROFILE
The Regional Co-ordination Unit (RCU) exists as a bridge between the UK Government Offices for the Regions (GO), and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Established in 2000, and located in the Regional Development Group of the DCLG, the Regional Co-ordination Unit provides a centre of operations for the GO network, and works with the GOs to improve the regional and local delivery of government programmes, so that the needs of local communities are met.

SYNOPSIS
Each regional GO was maintaining its own website on a separate IT platform, each using different technologies. This distributed method of maintaining websites was proving costly and complex, making it practically impossible, at a national level, to move content between sites, and to enforce regulatory standards such as website accessibility.

All of the regional offices had their own websites, developed internally, many had put a lot of work into them, but they lacked uniformity. Content with a national theme was being produced 10 times over, each office differing in style, format and quality. The individual GOs were not happy when the decision was made to rebuild the network of sites. In order to ease tensions, something had to be produced they were all happy with, that was as good as, or better than, the best in the network. With Morello that goal was achieved.

Case Study Regional Co-ordination Unit

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