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Electronic publishing accolade for NEP/council partnership

Derbyshire County Council’s website www.derbyshire.gov.uk, published by the NEP Midlands team, is one of the top 20 council sites in the country.

More than 440 sites were examined by the Society of Information Technology Management as part of its third annual survey of county, borough and district council websites.

Robert Hardie, who has headed up the project since 1999, said: “It is a major accolade. This is a partnership. We publish the site to allow the council to get on with the business of being a council.”

County council chief executive Nick Hodgson said: “We are delighted the website has been named among the best in the country as we recognise it is a valuable way of keeping the public in touch with the authority.”

The survey created scenarios to test the different sites, for example, a parent looking for a new school or a house-hunter seeking information on the area.

Derbyshire’s website – which currently gets around 50,000 page impressions a week – was also held up as an example of good practice to other local authorities for its history content, details of concessionary travel and information about residential homes.

The survey – Better Connected 2001? – also compared how the Internet sites had improved over the past 12 months.

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