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 Leaflet.

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

Asylum and Migration in the South West

 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.

Senior Pay Executive Summary

The executive summary of a review of chief executive and chief officer roles, released on 4th September, is available on our website.  The full report to assist in decision-making, benchmarking, policy development and workforce planning will be available to Epaycheck subscribers shortly.

For more information on Epaycheck .....

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

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

Find out more about the South West Coaching and Mentoring Pool.

Organisation Membership

Individual CPD Membership

Supervision

To access coaching ...

Coaching Conference 2017

Coaching Flyer 2017

For more information on costs click here. 

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

Looking for a town centre location for a meeting?

Meeting rooms at Dennett House are now available to hire.

Hire includes some free Car Parking and tea and coffee refreshments.  Lunch is available on request. 

To find out more click here.