SWCouncils

South West Councils has extensive experience of providing employment support.

Our team of professionally qualified and experienced specialists offer high quality independent Employment Advice free to member organisations including:

• Terms and Conditions for local government staff and school staff including teachers
• Day to day problematic employee relations

 We also provide consultancy (at discounted rates to member organisations) on:

• Recruitment and Workforce Development including suport via pyschometric testing and 360° appraisal 
• Job Evaluation / Pay and Grading 
• Disciplinary and Grievance Investigations
• Pre-Tribunal Conciliation 
• Mediation and Conflict Resolution 
• Conferences and Workshops 

Our services are summarised in a leaflet which can be downloaded here.

South West Councils
Bringing together local authority Leaders from the County, Unitary and District councils in the South West.

This Service provides a secure online environment with our partners NEREO, to provide a speedy, economical and high quality DBS service based on absolute accuracy and efficiency that will enhance your safeguarding process.

Online DBS enables organisations with a legitimate requirement to ask individuals to apply for disclosures, to gain access top this information quickly and efficiently.

Online Disclosure and Barring System

South West Charter for Member Development

The Charter for Member Development supports Councils to adopt a structured approach to councillor development and support, and to building elected Member capacity, which is essential for any council dedicated to meeting the needs of its community.

Community Leadership Awards have been designed specifically for Councillors and other Community Leaders:
 
For more information, click here or call 01823 270101

National Apprenticeship Week
3rd to 7th March 2014

South West Councils have two apprentices as part of our team and as it is National Apprentice Week we thought we would introduce you to them. South West Councils has seen real benefits from investing in the training and development of our talented apprentices and see them as valuable members of the team. Read more about Lily's and Lee's view into the working lives of two apprentices starting out on very different journeys.

For latest press release, click here...

Our team of professionally qualified and experienced specialists offer the following learning and development opportunities but we are always interested in developing new products or tailoring content to meet our customers' requirments and your learning objectives.  Please contact us here.

Most of our events can be delivered on an in-house basis. We will deliver courses on your premises for your staff, or for groups from collaborating organisations.  Our Services are summarised in a leaflet which can be downloaded here.

Full training events schedule

With coaching programmes featuring strongly in organisational strategies and change programmes, we have qualified and experienced coaches, who can provide individual coaching packages but we have also established the South West Coaching Pool to help organisations build internal coaching capacity and to enable managers to access coaches from other partner organisations with a range of different experience and expertise. 

For more information click here. 

The  Annual Coaching Conference held on 9 July 2013 in Weston super Mare was very successful. 100% of participants evaluated the learning as having been good and comments included "excellent speakers and workshops" "thank you - a fabulous day!" "an inspiring demonstration for the power of coaching"

The third Annual Conference is being held on 16 July 2014 in Taunton. For details of our coaching CPD click here (to take to a summary page of the events) or look at out list of forthcoming events.