The History of CLAW
The Welsh County Councils first
formed CLAW in 1962, in response to government
encouragement to develop educational building systems and
create bulk purchase arrangements for quality
components.
In 1979 the Welsh district
authorities were invited to join CLAW, allowing the
purchase benefits to be extended to other facilities such
as housing.
In the mid 80's CLAW recognised the
need to expand beyond the purchasing role to share
technical information, experience and expertise as a
means of increasing efficiencies and good practice. A
number of technical working groups were created to
consider a variety of issues
Since the 1996 reorganisation of
local government in Wales CLAW has developed an
important role as the leading Welsh local government
forum for developing and sharing best practice in
the management of property assets in the public
sector. All local authorities in Wales are members of
CLAW which has close links with the Wales
Assembly Government and the Wales Audit Office.
