ICT Provision for Councillors

You will be provided with a council-owned laptop and an android smartphone for official use. These devices have been selected to meet the needs of councillors and are updated regularly for security purposes. You must always use your county council provided email address for county council business or to contact county council officers, except in emergency situations.

You can use personal devices for council matters, but they must adhere to the security requirements set out in the council's ICT policy, including the 'Bring Your Own Device' (BYOD) guidelines. Our company Portal (Intune) provides users on Android and Apple devices with secure access to their corporate email, Teams, M365 services and intranet from both their corporate and personal mobile devices. However, from a personal security perspective, the advice from Lancashire Constabulary is that all councillors should have a separate mobile phone number for ‘council business’ and not use their own personal mobile phone number.

You can find out more about the ICT Provision for councillors in the Protocol for Provision of Council Resources to County Councillors.

Please also view the ICT Provision Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 218KB) document.