England's Warwickshire County Council has announced that it will complete a technical framework in April that will enable it to support Gov.UK Verify, a project by the UK government that aims to create a common identity assurance platform.The framework, which was developed with the non-profit trade group Open Identity Exchange (OIX), will be the first of three that are required to allow local authorities to begin adopting common tools based around open industry standards for secure access to digital services, reported government computing.Warwickshire County Council, a medium-sized local authority, has been involved since the start with efforts of the Government Digital Service (GDS) to develop Gov.UK Verify, which aims to transform government digital services through coordination with third-party identity providers."Identity assurance and attribute exchange are complex subjects. It makes sense for local authorities to reduce risk and cost by reusing the facilities developed by central government. This is in line with recent calls for 'Government as a Platform' (GaaP)," Ian Litton, Warwickshire's strategy programme and information manager, told the publication."It also makes more sense for customers to be able to reuse a single assured online identity across all tiers of government, rather than having to register and authenticate with each department separately. Individual privacy is baked into the design of GOV.UK Verify in a way that would be difficult or impossible for individual local authorities to achieve."The council has already developed a pilot project with GDS that ascertains the identities of individuals with severe mobility issues wishing to apply for the Blue Badge parking concessions scheme.In the national budget announced on 19 March, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said that the Gov.UK Verify digital identity tool will be rolled out across all of central government.
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