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LocalGov Drupal can be used as the foundation for a council intranet, giving staff a central place to find information, manage documents, and collaborate. Because it is built on the same platform as the public-facing LocalGov Drupal website, councils already using LocalGov Drupal can benefit from shared infrastructure, familiar tooling, and a single codebase to maintain.

Six UK councils are currently running intranets built on LocalGov Drupal: Blackburn and Darwen, Croydon, Cumberland, Essex County Council, Rutland, and Sheffield.

What LocalGov Drupal provides as an intranet

  • Content management: staff can create, edit, and publish content including documents, images, videos, and news articles using familiar Drupal editorial tools.
  • Document management: support for HTML publications, version control, document tagging, and search, so staff can find what they need quickly.
  • Integrated forms: councils can build forms to streamline internal processes such as leave requests, feedback submissions, and service requests.
  • Employee directory: staff can find and contact colleagues, supporting internal communication.
  • Access control: content can be restricted to authenticated users only, to specific roles, or left publicly accessible, giving councils fine-grained control over what staff and the public can see.
  • Accessibility: content meets or exceeds WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards, ensuring the intranet is usable by all staff.

In this section

  1. Access control: approaches to restricting content to authenticated users, using single sign-on, or limiting visibility to specific roles.