Author: Local Digital

Assure your self-assessment

Guidance on the CAF for local government independent assurance process.

Guidance to help you understand assurance

About the independent assurance process

Why assurance is important, how to engage with your assurer, and an overview of the process.

About your assurance report

What the report you receive from your independent assurer will include, and how to use it.

How to assure your self-assessment

Arrange independent assurance

MHCLG is providing assurance for councils who are ready to assure their organisational self-assessment in the financial year ending 2025.

Use your self-assessment to build cyber resilience

Create your improvement and implementation plan

Use the feedback from your assurer to plan your next steps and improve your cyber resilience.

Create an executive presentation

Share your CAF for local government findings with your senior leadership and management team.

Downloads and templates

Download an example improvement and implementation plan for organisational assessment (objectives A and D) (.xlsx, 63KB)

Download executive summary presentation template (.pptx, 941KB)

Download an example executive summary for organisational assessment (objectives A and D) (.pptx, 615KB)

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