Millom Town Council
Millom Town Council was formed in 1974 when the parish boundaries changed from Cumberland.
Prepared by: Cath Jopson, Town Clerk – February 2022
National Joint Council (“Green Book”) Provisions. The Green Book makes specific reference to encouraging local authorities to provide training and development opportunities for their employees at Part 2, Section 3.
Millom Town Council have implemented a Training and Development Policy for staff and councillors to enable them to operate and maintain a high level of performance and kept up to date with all new legislation. Millom Town Council are committed to provide employees and members within, the access to necessary training and development opportunities to ensure that the council can meet its aims and objectives.
The development of skills and abilities of staff and councillors will result in the delivery of high-quality services, the efficient management of those services and the compliance with and the utilisation of legislative powers.
Millom Town Council values the time given by its members to their community and can maximise the benefits from the contribution by strengthening their community role.
To support this, funding is allocated to a training budget each year to enable staff and councillors to attend training and conferences relevant to their role.
Millom Town Council make the following commitments:
Millom Town Council recognise that due its size and location most of the formal training will be provided by outside bodies. Millom Town Council have, therefore, close links with various training providers including Society of Local Council Clerks, National Association of Local Councils and Cumbria Association of Local Councils. The Clerk and RFO will be responsible for assessing and meeting the training needs of staff and monitoring of the budget.
In addition, Millom Town Council will encourage staff, and volunteers to identify their own learning styles and will seek to provide a wide variety of learning and training methods, including:
Annual Plan/Training Budget – which will enable members of the Town Council and Clerk to attend any relevant training and conferences throughout the year
A number of factors will be taken into account when assessing a request from an individual. This policy provides one element of the decision-making process. Other factors will include availability of finance and the individual’s employment record. Budget is to be monitored and controlled by the Responsible Financial Officer and/or Clerk and report to Millom Town Council prior to any overspend.
In order to ensure that Millom Town Council are able to consistently evaluate requests, training and development opportunities have been organised into three categories according to the degree of importance each intervention has for different roles.
All New Councillors:
It is recognised that it may be difficult for some councillors to attend training during the daytime because of their work commitments. Councillors will, however, still be encouraged to attend training provided by its partner authority (CALC).
All employees and members who undertake training are asked to complete a training evaluation form. Upon completion of the training to measure its relevance and effectiveness.
Signed and adopted: …………………… 22nd February 2023
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