Training
We still have availability at the following sessions. Book now to avoid disappointment! (Places can be booked via the member portal – login required. Usually this will be via the Clerk).
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Allotments (Day 1 of 3) –
Tenancy and Policies
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1st March
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2.00pm-3.30pm
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Zoom
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Allotments (Day 2 of 3) – Site
Facilities and Health & Safety
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8th March
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2.00pm-3.30pm
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Zoom
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New Councillor
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9th March
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6:00pm-9:00pm
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Zoom
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Allotments (Day 3 of 3) –
Self-management for Association Councils
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15th March
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2.00pm-3.30pm
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Zoom
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New Clerks (Day 1 of 2)
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22nd March
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10:00am-4:00pm
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LALC Offices, LN2 3QR
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New Clerks (Day 2 of 2)
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29th March
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10:00am-4:00pm
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LALC Offices, LN2 3QR
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LCC websites – Jadu Basics
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21st April
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10.00am-4.00pm
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Zoom
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Cemetery Management (part 1)
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16th May
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9.15am-12.30pm
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Zoom
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CiLCA Intro Day
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16th May
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1:00pm-3:00pm
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LALC Offices, LN2 3QR
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Cemetery Management (part 2)
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17th May
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9.15am-12.30pm
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Zoom
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LCC websites – Jadu Advanced
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26th May
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10.00am-12.30pm
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Zoom
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Play Area Inspections
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7th June
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9:30am-4:00pm
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North Hykeham Town Council
Civic Offices, Fen Lane, North Hykeham, LN6 8UZ
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Play Area Inspections (with
exam)
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8th June
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9:30am-4:00pm
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North Hykeham Town Council
Civic Offices, Fen Lane, North Hykeham, LN6 8UZ
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CiLCA Intro Day
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27th September
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1:00pm-3:00pm
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LALC Offices, LN2 3QR
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***Training venues are booked once a number of bookings have been received. This allows LALC to book venues based on where the majority of delegates are travelling from. If there are less than 10 bookings on any course, the course will automatically be held at the LALC Office, 8 Market Rasen Road, Dunholme, Lincoln, LN2 3QR***
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If we are advertising your vacancy in the eNews and on our website, please let us know when the vacancy has been filled, so that we can remove it.
If you need your vacancy advertising and do not have a pre-prepared advert to send us, please complete our Vacancy Template, which can be found in the Members Portal under Document Templates.
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Personal Safety for Councillors
A Government funded webinar has been arranged on Councillor personal safety and handling online abuse and intimidation. The webinar will take place on 21 Feb 23 from 2pm to 3.30pm. To book a place visit: https://lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=587165&eventID=1692&traceRedir=2
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King Charles III Coronation – BHIB Risk Assessment
BHIB have produced a risk assessment template that you might find helpful in planning and risk assessing your events.
We have converted it into a Word document, and it can be found in Document Templates in the LALC portal for download and amendment.
Search for ‘Coronation’ to find the document.
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NALC Update 14/02/23 – Council tax referendum principles
Michael Gove MP confirmed on 7 February 2023 that local (parish and town) councils would not be subject to the council tax referendum principles in 2023/24.
Mr Gove, secretary of state for the Department of Levelling Up and Housing Communities (DLUHC), confirmed his statement to parliament on the final local government finance settlement.
Mr Gove also covered how the new settlement will allow additional grant funding for councils and social care.
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When can we hold the Annual Meeting of the Council in May this year?
The following advice has been received from NALC:
Annual council meeting dates for councils with elections and the Coronation bank holiday
Further to our guidance in the October 2022 legal bulletin, we now know that Monday 8 May will be an additional bank holiday to mark the coronation of HM King Charles III. The 2023 local election date is Thursday 4 May and councillors would ordinarily take office on Monday 8 May. Our view is that councillors will now take office on Tuesday 9 May making the relevant 14-day meeting period for the purposes of paragraph 7 (2) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Act 1972 Wednesday 10-Thursday 25 May inclusive.
This an area where we are aware there have been different interpretations of the computation of days and we have not counted Sundays in our 14-day calculation.
The Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12, Part II – Parish Councils states:
7(1) A parish council shall in every year hold an annual meeting.
(2) In a year which is a year of ordinary elections of parish councillors, the annual meeting of a parish council shall be held on, or within fourteen days after, the day on which the councillors elected at that election take office, and in any other year the annual meeting shall be held on such day in May as the parish council may determine.
(3) The annual meeting of a parish council shall be held at such hour as the council may fix or, if no hour is so fixed, 6 o’clock in the evening.
Notices can be posted on noticeboards and the websites as usual. If your council’s election is contested and your annual meeting falls in the period 9th to 12th May, Proper Officers will not know who to send the summons to until the result of the election is known so it may be unachievable to give the required three clear days’ notice:
10. (2) Three clear days at least before a meeting of a parish council—
(a) notice of the time and place of the intended meeting shall be fixed in some conspicuous place in the parish and, where the meeting is called by members of the council, the notice shall be signed by those members and shall specify the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting; and
(b) a summons to attend the meeting, specifying the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting and certified by the proper officer of the council, shall be sent to every member of the council by an appropriate method.
(3) Want of service of any such summons as is referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) above on any member of the parish council concerned shall not affect the validity of the meeting.
If the election is contested it would be advisable to delay the annual meeting until the following week so that the summons can be delivered to elected councillors. This is not necessary if the candidates are elected uncontested.
You will know by 6th April if a contested election is taking place, and so can the review your Annual Meeting date accordingly.
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Elections Briefings
NKDC are running a series of briefings for Town and Parish Councillor candidates and interested Clerks in NK. The remaining session is:
• Mon 27 February at 6.30pm in the Civic Suite at NKDC, Sleaford
To register, email nk-corporatecivicsupportteam@n-kesteven.gov.uk stating Election Briefing and Date and include number of attendees with contact details for each. (NKDC councils should have already received this information).
SKDC briefings for candidates and clerks in SK are:
• Monday 27th February at 6pm – SKDC, Bourne
• Monday 6th March at 6pm - SKDC Offices, Grantham
Places should be booked directly via SKDC.
WLDC councils have been contacted direct about their election briefings.
ELDC will be holding a Parish Clerk briefing (via Teams) on Tuesday 28th February 6pm-7pm. ELDC will be sending out a meeting invitation to their councils shortly.
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Civility & Respect project launches a new suite of e-learning
The Civility and Respect Project has launched a new suite of e-learning courses for local (parish and town) councils.
The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has recognised that webinars and training courses only sometimes suit the busy schedules of local councils. E-learning allows councils to respond quickly to learners' needs, with flexibility and without having to organise physical training with fixed dates and times.
The e-learning courses are on standards in public life, respectful and positive social media for councils and councillors, leadership in challenging situations, and personal resilience.
One of the project's key aims has been to deliver training support for councillors, clerks and council staff who experience difficulties with bullying and harassment and to address some of the causes of poor behaviour.
Please contact LALC to register for one of these e-learning courses.
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CRM record updates
If your council moves to a gov.uk domain and you get new email addresses, please don’t forget to update your records on the CRM. We may then need to update your portal access, so that you can login in with your new email address.
If you Chair changes, please update the CRM (update the record to ‘Former Chair’) and then set up a record for your new Chair.
If any of your councillors leave the council, please update their records to ‘Former Councillor’.
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New Fearless Website
Fearless is the youth arm of the Crimestoppers charity which allows young people to provide information about crime with 100% anonymity. The website at:
https://crimestoppers-uk.org/fearless?fbclid=IwAR0C5LPv92L1Ahk3wV3Vf8LUmrSjSX5pEetQHGnSSzUSGYrlnj_eTYEhMnM&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
provides information on the service, contains a dedicated section for young people to learn more about a range of crime topics and has a useful FAQ section.
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NALC Update 16/02/23 – NALC calls for changes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill
NALC has urged the House of Lords to make essential changes to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to ensure local (parish and town) councils play their part in levelling up and improving local communities.
NALC president, Baroness Scott of Needham Market, has put forward a package of amendments for peers to consider, which seek to address many of the most pressing issues the sector faces that are within the remit of the Bill. They include:
• For councils to be able to hold remote meetings
• Suspension of councillors who breach the code of conduct
• Access to direct government funding and grants
• A timetable for the neighbourhood governance review to make it easier to set up new local councils
• Payment of dependent carers allowance to councillors
• The extension of the General Power of Competence
NALC has sent a briefing in support of the amendments to one hundred critical contacts in the House of Lords, urging them to support Baroness Scott during the Committee Stage of the Bill over the next few weeks.
Cllr Keith Stevens, NALC chair, said: "We are extremely grateful for Baroness Scott's work to promote these changes to this important levelling up Bill. If adopted, they will make a significant difference to the ability of NALC's 10,000 local councils and 100,000 councillors. I urge the House of Lords and government members to consider them seriously."
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Proposals for The Wash Barrage
To introduce myself, I am the Chair of the King’s Lynn Joint Advisory Group (KLJAG), which is a collaborative Group, bringing together King’s Lynn Conservancy Board (KLCB) and The Wash & North Norfolk Marine Partnership (WNNMP).
KLCB is the Statutory Pilotage and Port Authority, legally responsible for conservation and the arbitration of safety within its area of jurisdiction, whilst WNNMP is the organisation that manages and helps deliver authority statutory duties to The Wash and North Norfolk Marine Protected Area (MPA) network (formerly referred to as the European Marine Site, EMS). The KLJAG was formed as a result of a UK legislative review of UK ports 2000. Notably, this established KLCB as a trust port, bringing some changes to its board structure and consolidating all of its historic charters and right’s.
The KLJAG need to discuss its position regarding The Wash Barrage, a development being proposed by Centre Ports UK: https://www.centreport.uk/. Given that your Parish borders The Wash, we would like to invite you, or a suitable representative, to attend our next online meeting, where your views can be shared, in an open and safe environment. The meeting details are as follows:
• Date: Wed 8th March 2023
• Time: 15:00-17:00
• Online Platform: Zoom
If you wish to attend, please RSVP by 27th Feb 2023, to Dr Adele Powell, WNNMP Partnership Manager, as per the details below:
• Email: adele.powell@wnnmp.co.uk
• Mob: 07557 813095
King regards,
Mr Roger Ward
Chair KLJAG
roger@anchor100.co.uk
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13th Edition of Arnold-Baker on Local Council Administration
The comprehensive and authoritative guide to local government law has been extensively revised for its 13th edition.
List price: £164.99
Price through LALC - £131.99, which is a saving of 20%.
Please contact Lindsey to order a copy.
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