UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
Laying the foundations for better local public services
The Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) Digital and Cyber Playbook brings together practical guidance, tools, case studies and templates to help councils plan and deliver the digital, data, technology and cyber elements of reorganisation.
It supports councils to prepare for day one (vesting day), reduce risk, and shape the new authority.
This is a live resource, developed with councils and sector partners, and updated as new learning emerges.
Explore the guidance, tools and templates that make up the Playbook.
The Playbook is organised into themed resources covering common challenges in reorganisation, including:
Why early collaboration and baselines are critical to a smoother day one and faster transformation.
Protecting data, detecting threats, maintaining secure access, and keeping critical services running from day one.
Guidance on safely and legally separating shared systems, services and data when councils need to split rather than merge.
A practical guide for digital and cyber leaders to the first 100 days of reorganisation.
The LGR Digital and Cyber community brings councils together to shape how the sector approaches the digital and cyber aspects of LGR.
By working together, we can share learnings and feed insights back into the playbook to keep it relevant, practical and useful.
The community is open to:
Access the playbook roadmap to see the new content that will be added in future releases.
