Documents
Human Rights Act LTN24
The Human Rights Act 1988 (the 1988 Act) (which came into effect in October 2000) incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
Mon, 13 May 2019
Village hall - local Council Help for Village Halls LTN21
Local Councils often provide financial support or give other assistance to help in the running of a village hall.
Mon, 13 May 2019
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
A guide from NALC to the operation of the levy.
Fri, 12 Apr 2019
Transport Planning - The Good Councillor's Guide
This guide is aimed at councillors who are interested in transport planning issues. Transport planning can be influenced by local communities and the guide helps councillors to understand the issues and how they can be addressed at local level.
Mon, 25 Mar 2019
Purdah for elections in May 2019
Advice about what can be said and done in the run-up to 2nd May 2019 elections (not in Stroud District). Don't forget council business must go on as usual but councillors must not electioneer.
Thu, 14 Feb 2019
Complaints handling LTN09
A document to assist local councils deal with formal complaints about their operations and services. Also contains an outline of a complaints policy that can be adopted by a parish or town council.
Wed, 02 Jan 2019
GAPTC 'Our Plan for Gloucestershire 2018-2022'
The GAPTC Strategy setting out the vision and goals for the future.
* Promoting professionalism
* Effective communication and partnership working
* Supporting/encouraging leadership principles
Fri, 28 Dec 2018
Executive Committee meeting draft November 2018 minutes
Draft minutes for the meeting held on 22 November 2018
Thu, 13 Dec 2018
Guidelines in the event of the death of a senior national figure
Some actions to consider to mark the death of the sovereign or a senior national figure. A summary of guidance received from the National Association of Civic Officers.
Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Good Councillor's Guide to finance and transparency
A helpful guide for councillors on council finance and the transparency requirements. This guide is designed specifically to help parish and town councillors support their communities and council in understanding their obligations and commitments with public money – both generally and under Transparency Code requirements – as well as sharing good practice in these areas.
Hard copies can be purchased from GAPTC at a cost of £4.99 plus postage.
Mon, 10 Dec 2018
AGM minutes 2018
Minutes of the GAPTC AGM 2018, held at Highnam in July 2018, and approved in July 2019
Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Data Protection LTN38
An overview including personal data, data processing and the rights of data subjects, updated following the adoption of the Data Protection Act 2018
Sat, 01 Dec 2018
Executive Committee approved minutes 24th October 2018
Minutes from the October meeting of the Executive Committee
Mon, 26 Nov 2018
Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018
New regulations coming into force over a period of time regarding websites and mobile applications.
Mon, 19 Nov 2018
Section 137 and general powers of local councils LTN31
an updated legal topic note on the powers of local councils including S137 and the general power of competence.
Mon, 29 Oct 2018
CPRE - our partners
We campaign for a beautiful and living countryside. We work to protect, promote and enhance our towns and countryside to make them better places to live, work and enjoy, and to ensure the countryside is protected for now and future generations.
www.cpre.org.uk
Fri, 14 Sep 2018
Institute of Crematorium and Cemetery Management
www.iccm-uk.com
About the Institute
TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT, ADVANCEMENT AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS TO FACILITATE THE BETTER PROVISION, OPERATION, ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CEMETERIES, CREMATORIA AND BEREAVEMENT RELATED SERVICES PRIMARY PURPOSES
1. To promote the improvement of cemeteries, crematoria and public services for the disposal of the dead.
2. To promote the advancement and welfare of people employed in the above undertakings.
3. To encourage technical and other studies in relation to the above and to improve and develop the technical and general knowledge of the profession.
4. To provide education and training, including lectures and conferences.
5. To provide library facilities
6. To distribute a journal and papers produced by the Institute.
7. To undertake investigations.
8. To engage people to act in a technical and advisory capacity.
9. To distribute trust funds
10. To promote, support or oppose initiatives (including proposed legislation) relating to burial, cremation and ancillary public services.
Fri, 14 Sep 2018
Society of Local Council Clerks - our partners
www.slcc.co.uk
The Society of Local Council Clerks (SLCC) is the professional body for local council clerks and senior council employees. Its membership is steadily growing and now represents clerks to over 4,700 councils in England and Wales.
The Society's vision statement:
"To provide training, guidance, advice and support to members so that they can develop the professional skills, knowledge and experience necessary for them to best serve their councils and communities; and through this develop the overall recognition and status of their profession."
Many councils realise the benefits of having a clerk who is properly trained, fully briefed on the issues of the day and can get fast accurate advice to problems that they may face. In fact, over 90% of members' councils willingly pay for their clerks' subscriptions to the Society as encouraged by the Local Government Act.
The Society of Local Council Clerks is developing fast and is increasingly recognised as the body which represents and promotes 'best practice' in the sector.
Membership is open to all full time, part time and deputy clerks and other senior employees of town, parish or community councils and parish meetings in England and Wales.
Fri, 14 Sep 2018
Mediation and conflict resolution service for local councils - Kim Bedford
Working with people is never easy!
We are all different, needing different things at different times, with the ability or not, of understanding those needs and being able to reasonably express or respond to them. Sometimes, the opportunity to explore the situation, reflect in a safe place, can help lead to a resolution in a fraught situation.
Kim Bedford has been involved as a manager in retail for many years and latterly in the Local Council sector as a Councillor, Clerk and County Officer at GAPTC. She understands the pressures we all cope with in our daily lives and holds the National Certificate in Workplace Mediation, and can offer this service to you.
Due to the structure of Local Councils, the nature of the relationship between volunteer, local leader, advisor, employee and line manager can be complicated and sometimes confusing. Using her experience, she will work with you to try and find a way through troubled waters.
To find out more, please contact her by email at kimbedford@btinternet.com, giving her your name, position and your email contact. She will make contact with you to seek some basic information and give details of the approach she will use, together with costs.
Mon, 10 Sep 2018
Planning Applications - How to Respond
A comprehensive guide to responding to planning applications.
Fri, 24 Aug 2018
GDPR toolkit August 2018
Revised toolkit to help councils meet GDPR requirements. This toolkit provides a number of practical tools to assist councils with GDPR compliance, in the form of a GDPR Action Plan Checklist and a Data Audit questionnaire, in addition to templates for privacy notices and consent forms.
Mon, 06 Aug 2018
National Planning Policy Framework 2018
The updated NPPF to take account of the recommendations in the last housing white paper.
Thu, 26 Jul 2018
GDPR - Privacy Notice for staff and directors
Privacy notice for staff and GAPTC directors
Wed, 04 Jul 2018
GDPR - Data breach and security incident response (GAPTC internal policy)
The response GAPTC must take following a data breach.
Wed, 04 Jul 2018
GDPR - GAPTC Data Protection Policy (GAPTC internal policy)
The GAPTC Data Protection policy
Thu, 14 Jun 2018
Executive Committee meeting 24 May 2018 minutes
Executive committee meeting 24th May 2018 drat minutes
Tue, 05 Jun 2018