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The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has published a new employment briefing on the national salary award for clerks and other employees employed under the terms of the model contract.
NALC has been informed that the National Joint Council for Local Government Services (NJC) has agreed on the new rates Read more…

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Rights of way guidance booklet – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

To help with the discussion on the Levelling Up the UK white paper, below is a NALC summary of the key measures of interest and relevance. The note slims down the 332 pages of the white paper into 12, including a single side of key highlights plus our on-the-day initial Read more…

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Safer public places – managing public outdoor settings – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please click on the below link with regards to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Beacons which is likely to be of interest.
We have also been advised that information about the Jubilee celebrations has been added to the Lord-Lieutenant’s website – see here: HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 – Lord Lieutenant Read more…

Ministers reject calls for council meetings to be held online Councils must continue holding meetings in person, the Government has said, as it rejected calls to introduce laws despite the spread of the Omicron variant. Lord Greenhalgh, a minister of state at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Read more…

Sussex Police are using ‘big data’ to turn millions of records of phone calls, crimes, investigations and court trials into a tool to drive productivity and make people safer. It will enable officers to predict trends, identify serial offenders, study crime hotspots and devote more time to victims.
In an article Read more…