SWCouncils

South West Councils has extensive experience of providing both employment support and training opportunities .

Our team of professionally qualified and experienced specialists offer the following services: 

• Employment Advice and Consultancy 
• Recruitment and Staff Development 
• Job Evaluation / Pay and Grading 
• Disciplinary Investigations 
• Mediation 
• National Pay and Pensions Negotiations 
• Conferences and Workshops 

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

South West Councils have responded to a request from Local Government Employers (LGE) and has taken over the responsibility for answering enquiries and advice on School Teacher Pay and Terms and Conditions of Employment. 

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

Click here for more information on our collaborative working for the South West.

South West Charter for Member Development

The Charter for Member Development has been developed by the nine Regional Employers Organisations in partnership with Local Government Improvement and Development (LGiD).

The Charter 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

Cllr Harvey Siggs, Chair of the SW Councils Employers' Panel, was appointed Chair of the National Association of Regional Employers (NARE) at the NARE AGM on Thursday 24 October 2013. NARE includes Members and officers from each of the English regions, Northern Ireland and Wales.  This provides a strong national voice to influence negotiations on pay, terms and conditions.  It is also a useful platform for sharing information and collaborating with other regions.

For latest press release, click here...

We design and deliver courses specifically to meet the needs of our member organisations and others.Our team of professionally qualified and experienced specialists offer the following learning and development opportunities.

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 authorities.  We can work with you to ensure that the content of a development package is tailored to your requirements and your learning objectives are met. 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 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. 

 A secure pay benchmarking facility, developed for the public sector by the public sector. Launched to local authorities across the country in 2012, the service has already attracted more than half of our councils to register for this data sharing service.

Epaycheck is delivered through a nationwide network of Regional Employers' Organisations who provide the front end service in their localities and actively work with their users to collect, monitor and quality assure the data available to report against.

For more information on Epaycheck .....