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NALC Legal Update
Welcome to the third legal update and the first of 2019
GDPR – commenting on planning applications
Planning applications often contain personal data (as defined by the GDPR/ Data Protection Act 2018). Processing personal data is necessary for the exercise of planning functions, but that does not include a blanket approach to publishing such data on the internet.
Decisions on what information is... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:22 by Alison Robinson
LCAS success
Congratulations to Kemble & Ewen Parish Council who have achieved foundation level in the Local Council Award Scheme (LCAS).
Posted: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:29 by Alison Robinson
CiLCA success
Congratulations Robert Stone from Gotherington Parish Council on achieving CiLCA.
The next CiLCA mentoring sessions commence in March so if you are interested in becoming qualified please contact us.
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:39 by Alison Robinson
NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
NALC Elections Campaign
Last week NALC launched a new promotional video as part of the #MakeAChange elections campaign to encourage more people to stand for election as local councillors in the forthcoming elections in May 2019. The new video aims to help people looking to stand for election to understand the steps they will have to take to become a councillor. Watch the six steps to becoming a local... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:55 by Alison Robinson
NALC Chief Executive's bulletin
NALC Larger Councils Committee
The Larger Councils Committee met on 22 January at CCLA in London, here's a brief summary:
- Colleagues from CCLA welcomed the Committee to their offices and gave a brief overview of their work with the charities, churches and local authorities sectors, with total funds under management close to £9bn, the public sector making up almost 20% (£1.7bn) and some 700... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:35 by Alison Robinson
Buckingham Palace Garden Party 2019 attendees announced
We selected names out of the hat at 5pm yesterday and the successful councils were: -
* Stow on the Wold Town Council (Cotswolds District) Cllr Vera Norwood + guest
* Alvington parish council (Forest of Dean District) Cllr Alan Haslam + guest
Posted: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:56 by Alison Robinson
Project examples relating to the loneliness initiative - contact NALC
NALC are involved in a loneliness project and are requesting that parish and town councils that are involved either directly or in partnership with any projects aimed at tackling loneliness contact Andrew Tubb at the NALC offices.
Often, loneliness is associated with older people who live on their own; but loneliness is not just about social isolation therefore, people can be lonely, but not necessarily... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:13 by Alison Robinson
Training news
2019 training courses
Here is an update on the courses available for this year. New for 2019 is Digital Mapping training with Pear Technology which will take place on 13 February. With elections in May 2019 for the Cotswolds, Forest of Dean and Tewkesbury, new councillor training has been set up for the summer and Chairmanship Skills and planning training will be added shortly. Full information on course... Read More »
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:58 by Alison Robinson
NALC update - from Jonathan Owen (Chief Executive)
Happy New Year!
NALC would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2019.
Local Council Award Scheme
At the end of 2018, 326 local (parish and town) councils had already achieved a prestigious national award through the Local Council Award Scheme, recognised by the government, Local Government Association, and Society of Local Council Clerks (SLCC), and administered by NALC and county... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:54 by Alison Robinson