The Staffordshire Parish Councils’ Association President (Councillor Tony Holmes) and Chief Executive (Robert Pettigrew) attended a meeting of the Stone Area Parish Liaison Group in the Frank Jordan Centre in Stone this afternoon. The main item of business on the Agenda was a discussion about highways, and a team of officers from the County Council […]
The SPCA Annual General Meeting for 2023 was held on the evening of Monday 30 October in the Trentham suite at the offices of Staffordshire County Council. At the meeting, the President (Councillor Tony Holmes – Forsbrook Parish Council) was confirmed to continue in office, alongside the three Vice-Presidents (Councillors Mike Allen – Haughton Parish […]
The SPCA has recruited a new Health & Wellbeing Project Officer, Andy Wheeler, who started in his role this week. Introducing himself, Andy writes: I’m Andy Wheeler and I’ve recently joined SPCA in the position of Health & Wellbeing Officer. Prior to relocating to Staffordshire I’d taken up community safety and health & wellbeing roles for […]
The SPCA’s whole council development programme travelled to two parishes in South Staffordshire this week – delivering our Councillor Fundamentals training to councillors in Perton and Cheslyn Hay. This development programme is proving especially popular, and has been well received as useful from experienced councillors as well as those who are relatively to their council. […]
Stone Town Council Deputy Town Clerk Full-Time Permanent (37 hours per week) £31,099-£34,723 per annum (pay award pending) Stone Town Council is a busy local council supporting the town of Stone, Staffordshire. In addition to operating two community centres, various town markets and organising a full programme of events, it will be opening new heritage […]
High Offley Parish Council VACANCY: PART-TIME CLERK / RESPONSIBLE FINANCIAL OFFICER. Around five hours per week (to be worked flexibly from home) High Offley Parish includes the villages of Woodseaves and Shebdon within Stafford Borough. The successful candidate will be required to aƩend the monthly Parish Council meetings held on the 2nd Thursday of the […]
Sandon and Burston Parish Council has a vacancy for a Clerk/Responsible Financial Officer. The post is for 22 hours per month paid according to SLCC/NALC guidelines and dependent upon experience with a salary range SCP7 – 12 (£11.63 – £12.73 per hour). The Clerk would be expected to work from home. A laptop and printer […]
Town Clerk – Alsager (Cheshire) TOWN CLERK & RFO ALSAGER TOWN COUNCIL PERMANENT – FULL TIME £43,516 (National Pay Award Pending) UPWARDS DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE Main Function of Position To fulfil all the requirements of Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer to the Council. To provide effective leadership to all stakeholders on matters effecting […]
SPCA will be holding its first revamped Conference and AGM in September 2023. The confirmed date will be made available over the next few weeks and the conference will include speakers on topics relevant to the sector. If you would like to make any suggestions on behalf of a member council on topics which you […]
Member Councils in Staffordshire today received their Welcome Packs which include information about the sector and partnership organisations. The pack is designed to help Clerks, Chairman and Councillors with sector information that can often take years to build up when lost during handover between roles. SPCA would like to thank everyone who has contributed to […]
The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has published the Joint Panel on Accountability and Governance (JPAG) 2022 edition of the Practitioners’ Guide. The 2022 edition of the guide has made updates to section five on the non-statutory guidance for clerks and responsible financial officers. This section leads councils to prepare and take their AGAR and […]
Our 2022 Q1 courses are now live for booking and include courses such as Councillor Fundamentals, Climate Change and Sustainability and Legal powers, policies and committees. To book please visit our booking site: https://bookwhen.com/spca To view Commuications courses available through Breakthrough Communications please visit: County Association Training Events – Breakthrough Communications (breakthroughcomms.co.uk)