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Last updated: 1 Jul 2020

local-links-manager: Exporting Local Authority links to services

Exports are run daily and produce a links_to_services_provided_by_local_authorities.csv file in the public/data directory. This is publicly available at https://local-links-manager.publishing.service.gov.uk/links-export which redirects to the static file at /data/links_to_services_provided_by_local_authorities.csv at present.

A link to this file is published at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/local-authority-services. They also host a cached, zipped version which is updated daily.

The file contains the following headers (we tried to keep these as similar to the localdirect.gov.uk file as possible) :

Header	Description
Authority Name	The name of the local authority
SNAC	The SNAC of the local authority
GSS	The GSS code of the local authority
Description	The name of the service defined by the combination of LGSL and LGIL codes
LGSL	The Local Government Service List code for the service
LGIL	The Local Government Interaction List code for the service
URL	The URL corresponding to the local authority's provision of the service
Supported by GOV.UK	Whether the GOV.UK website uses this link

The file is generated by running the rake task:

bundle exec rake export:links:all