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Our Content Strategy: Step by step

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Our Content Strategy: Step by step

Our approach to the development, governance and publication of useful and usable content

1What we want to do

How we will make our content clearer, more useful, and easier to find

  1. Content Strategy objectives and benefits

2How we will do it

Our content rules and writing style help us keep things clear, consistent, and focused on what users need.

  1. Content principles and writing style

3How we will keep our content up-to-date and useful

How we manage content and the checks we make before publishing.

  1. Content governance and quality assurance

4The tools, knowledge and principles we will use

The tools and methods we use to plan, write, and improve website content.

  1. Content tools and resources

5How we work as a team

Our Charter explains our purpose, values, and ways of working.

  1. Content values and charter

Introduction

Good content rules help to make our website useful and easy to use. They make sure the pages meet our customer needs.

All content on our website should:

  • Help people do something or find what they need
  • Be clear and well written
  • Follow our writing rules
  • Stay useful and up to date
  • Stop customers getting frustrated
  • Save time for staff
  • Help people use the website instead of phoning or visiting us

Workflow

All content must be submitted to the Digital Transformation Team for approval and publication.

They will check it for spelling and grammar, and make sure it follows the Council’s writing style. They will also check that the content is useful for customers and suitable for the website.

The team will approve or reject the content within 5 days. If something is urgent, they will look at it sooner.

If you send something again after it was rejected, the 5-day review time starts again.

information

The Digital Transformation Team is responsible for making sure the website is high quality and easy to use. They have the final say on what gets published online.

Content Inventory and audit

Our website should only show content that is up to date and useful.

If there is no clear reason for someone to need it, or we don’t legally have to publish it, it should not be on the site.

We will check content when updates are requested, and we will do a full review once a year. Pages that are not needed anymore will be removed and won’t show up on the website.

Every piece of content must have a review date and, if needed, an expiry date. This must be added when the content is sent to the Digital Transformation Team for approval.

  • Review dates: How often we check the content depends on what it is about, but we must check everything at least once a year.
  • Expiry dates: If the content is only needed for a short time (like a campaign or seasonal info), we must set a date to remove it when it is no longer useful.

If no review or expiry date is given, the Digital Transformation Team will reject the content.

Last reviewed: August 20, 2025 by Jennifer

Next review due: February 20, 2026

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