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Topics Cumbria County Council is beginning an effort to increase national take-up of the LocalGov Drupal website publishing platform. It has taken over from Croydon as the lead council for the programme, which has recently won a fresh round of funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Local Digital Fund and moved into its beta phase. LocalGov Drupal uses the Drupal open source content management system and has been developed by a number of local authorities and developers. It is now used by a group of councils including Croydon, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and...
Croydon Council has switched its website to run on the open source codebase of the LocalGov Drupal publishing platform. The move marks a significant stage in the project to develop the platform, which was funded with £75,000 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Local Digital Fund. Tom Steel from the Croydon Digital Service reported on the step, taken in mid-December, in a blogpost, saying it marks a milestone in code sharing between local authorities and has given the council access to a number of new features. These include a drag and drop page builder for subs...