Agencies
This folder is for project managers, administrators and website creators at a public agency: a regulator, an inspectorate, an executive or arm's-length body that runs a program, or a specialist authority. Agencies publish for two audiences at once: the public, and the organizations or professionals they regulate or serve. Their guidance is relied on, so it must be correct, dated and traceable. The pages answer what agencies publish, how to build it in Exponential, which requirements weigh most, how to run the first 90 days, and how to publish guidance for regulated parties.
Product facts come from the documentation of this repository; descriptions of agencies are general public-sector practice.
Contents
The pages
| Page | The answer in one line |
|---|---|
| What an agency publishes | Guidance, decisions and enforcement, registers, programs, data, news, corporate information |
| Content model for agencies | Shipped classes plus Guidance, Enforcement notice and Program classes, with version and status attributes |
| Structure, sections and roles for agencies | Audience-based tree, sections for regulated content and corporate content, roles with legal review |
| Requirements emphasis for agencies | Accuracy and traceability, accessibility, security, privacy in decisions, open data |
| The first 90 days for agencies | Plan with guidance owners and legal review built in |
| Guidance for regulated parties | Versioned guidance with effective dates, change notes, notifications and a stable address |
Reading order
- What an agency publishes, then Guidance for regulated parties.
- Content model and Structure, sections and roles.
- Requirements emphasis.
- First 90 days.
Up: Levels of government. The landing page of the Governments section, Governments: start here, is the starting point for every reader. An agency of a ministry may also share a platform with it; see Many ministries on one platform.
What sets agencies apart
| Topic | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Reliance | regulated parties act on guidance; a wrong or undated page has consequences |
| Traceability | "what did the guidance say on that date?" must be answerable |
| Two audiences | the public and professionals need different entry points |
| Decisions about named parties | enforcement decisions may name organizations, and sometimes people |
| Data | registers and statistics are often expected as open data |
The product features that answer these: versions with compare and the audit trail (Versions of an object, Audit trail), object states for a document's status (Object states), notifications for subscribers (Notifications) and RSS (RSS feeds).
Related pages
- Levels of government
- National government
- Planning your website
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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