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NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
Chippenham Peer Review
The pilot peer review with Chippenham Town Council took place last week. NALC's head of member services, Charlotte Eisenhart, was part of the peer review team who spent two days onsite where through 20 meetings they spoke to more than 45 people including a range of council staff together with councillors and stakeholders, spending more than 80 hours to determine findings and feedback... Read More »
Posted: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:21 by Alison Robinson
CiLCA mentoring sessions - commencing 11th October 2019
GAPTC have been asked to run additional CiLCA mentoring sessions, and have provisionally booked these to take place in Badgeworth Village Hall from 0930-1330 hrs on: -
Friday 11 October
Friday 6 December
Friday 7 February
Friday 3 April
The cost is :-
£235 – Councils with gross income up to £25,000
£395 - Councils with gross income greater than £25,000
If you are interested, please... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:38 by Alison Robinson
‘Working Together’ protocol - Stroud District Council
A few weeks ago the clerks in the Stroud District were contacted to get involved in a working party together to look at the 'Working Together' protocol that was first produced by Stroud District Council in 2013. Recently the peer review that STC undertook looked at identified better partnership working with our sector as an opportunity.
A session with STC has been set up on 16th September at 3pm,the... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:29 by Alison Robinson
NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
Spending Round 2019
Chancellor Sajid Javid delivered the Spending Round 2019 on 4 September in Parliament, setting out departmental spending plans for 2020/21. Headlines for local government include: principal authorities will have access to a £1.5 million social care down payment next year; an increase in business rate baseline levels to match inflation; £54 million of new funding to reduce... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:46 by Alison Robinson
CiLCA menoring sessions - commencing 11th October 2019
We have been asked to run additional CiLCA mentoring sessions, and have provisionally booked these to take place in Badgeworth Village Hall from 0930-1330 hrs on: -
Friday 11 October
Friday 6 December
Friday 7 February
Friday 3 April
The cost is :-
£235 – Councils with gross income up to £25,000
£395 - Councils with gross income greater than £25,000
However, we need a minimum... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:16 by Alison Robinson
Protestors against the roll out of 5G
You may have seen in the press that Stroud Town Council (STC) had a difficult reception at their Full Council meeting on Monday 2nd September when they were debating a motion to not consent to the roll out of 5G. However, this motion failed.
A group of 40 plus protesters turned up and were very upset by the decision.
Some of the protestors waited outside the building. At the end of the meeting to alleviate... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:05 by Alison Robinson
Princess Anne to attend NALC Annual Conference
NALC are delighted to announce Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, Princess Anne, will be this year's Annual Conference special guest.
The Princess Royal is the only daughter and second child of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh. Her Royal Highness is involved with over 300 charities, organisations and military regiments in the UK and overseas, and she devotes a large part of her working life to... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:32 by Alison Robinson
Chartered Parish Group meeting - 5th Sept 7.00pm - 9.00pm at GL3 Community Hub in Churchdown, GL3 1HX
The Gloucestershire Charter
Chartered Parishes Group Meeting
Thursday 5th September 2019
7.00pm -9.00pm
GL3 Community Hub
Cheltenham Road East (B4063) in Churchdown, Gloucester, GL3 1HX.
Agenda includes:-
Presentation on what Gloucestershire County Council Highways role is in the land planning/ housing developments– Chris Mead, HDM and Planning Consultant for Gloucestershire county Council
Posted: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:09 by Alison Robinson
Community Governance - higher education programme
A number of clerks across Gloucestershire have already achieved success in the Community Governance course run by SLCC or are still studying. Now is your chance to join them.
The qualification has a number of benefits including being:
• Unique - targeted at local council officers
• Flexible - allows for specialist topics to be studied facilitating work-based learning
• Part-time - allows... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:41 by Anita Sach
ICO Blog: top 3 issues on GDPR for parish and town councils
By Stacey Egerton, Senior Policy Officer
14 August 2019
The advent of the GDPR in May 2018 brought new data protection obligations for many organisations. Some of this presented a challenge, particularly for smaller organisations like parish and town councils, who we saw were keen to demonstrate their compliance but needed support to achieve this.
Now, well into the second year of the GDPR, it's clear... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:52 by Alison Robinson
