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HR and Employment Services

South West Councils has extensive experience of providing both employment support and training opportunities .
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Our team of professionally qualified and experienced specialists offer the following services: 

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

 
Members and Meetings
 

Education HR Advice

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. 

 
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Recruitment & Retention Portal

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southwestjobs.org.uk a shared jobs portal is now live, all councils and fire & rescue services in the South West have the opportunity to access to this new resource....

 
more info...
 

Room Hire

Looking for a town centre location for a meeting?Rooms to Hire at Dennett House

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. 

 

Learning and Development Services

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

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

Full training events schedule 

 
Members and Meetings
 

Coaching Pool

Coaching PoolWith 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

 
 

South West Councils: Working for the South West

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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.

 

Improvement and Efficiency

The South West Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (SW IEP) continues to promote innovative sector-led improvement and efficiency support to local authorities.

For more information click here 

Councils on track to save at least £153m over 4 yearsDriving Value for Money leaflet cover
 
The Driving Value for Money programmes are on track to save Councils at least £153m over 4 years click here to find out how...

 

 

SW Councils News

 

South West Councils News
Bringing together news and information from across local government in the region.

  • Cllr Angus CampbellMessage from Cllr Angus Campbell, Chair SW Council
  • Latest on the E-Personalisation Marketplace project
  • Exmoor becomes an international Dark Sky Reserve

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