Governance & Policies

Written rules for the local council, confirming the procedures and procedural matters for meetings.

A set of rules and principles that govern the behaviour of elected and co-opted councillors when acting in their official capacity.

Parish council financial regulations set out the procedures for budgeting, spending, auditing, and managing public funds to ensure accountability, transparency, and compliance with legal requirements.

The scheme describes how and where we publish our data.

The document describes the terms of reference of the Committee.

These documents outline risk assessments carried out by the local council.

The document describes delegations of powers and duties.

The document describes council's internal control procedures.

The document outlines the health and safety policy to promote a safe, healthy, and compliant working environment for all individuals.

This policy promotes fair treatment and equal opportunities for everyone, valuing diversity and preventing discrimination.

The document outlines the policy for audio and video recording to ensure compliance with privacy, legal, and organisational standard.s

The documents describes how we communicate with the public and each other.

The document describes how we deal with complaints.

The document describes financial reserves and their use.

The document describes how we invest Council's funds.

This document outlines a strategic framework designed to conserve, manage, and sustainably use biological diversity through coordinated policies and actions.

Formal guidelines and rules established by an organisation to govern workplace practices, employee conduct, rights, responsibilities, and company procedures.

Contains information about training attended by councillors and staff.

Contains information on the co-option process of new councillors.

Contains Community Grant funding policy and forms.

A policy describing how we use IT.

A web accessibility statement is an information page on our website that clearly states the level of web accessibility to which the website aims to conform.

A policy describing how we protect data we hold.

A privacy notice (general) is a statement or legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data.

A privacy policy for website users is a statement or legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data.

A privacy notice for the users of the cemetery.

A policy detailing the council's responsibilities for retaining certain documents, and how long they should be retained for.

This policy ensures transparency, accountability, and openness by giving the public the right to access recorded information held by public bodies.

This section details whether the council has signed the Civility and Respect pledge. This is a project between NALC, SLCC and OVW to help councils show their zero tolerance for bullying, harassment and intimidation in local councils.

This section provides surveys and reviews, such as tree surveys and drainage reviews, that assess environmental and structural site conditions to support planning, safety, and compliance.

This section provides details of the annual playground inspections.