Documents
GDPR - NALC Toolkit
Toolkit to support compliance with GDPR. Note that this document is 60 pages long.
Mon, 26 Feb 2018
GDPR and Parish Meetings - L06-17
Legal briefing on how GDPR affect parish meetings
Mon, 02 Oct 2017
GDPR Reporting Personal Data Breaches
Legal Briefing on reporting personal data breaches
Wed, 21 Feb 2018
General Data Protection Regulation - Legal Briefing 04-17 July 2017
Guidance on how to prepare for the introduction of the GDPR in May 2018
Wed, 09 Aug 2017
Good Councillor's Guide 2018
Essential reading for all councillors and council staff. Produced by the National Association of Local Councils
Wed, 23 May 2018
Good Councillor's Guide to Finance and Transparency
Support to Councillors to help them understand their obligations and commitments with public money - both generally and under the Transparency Code requirements.
Thu, 23 May 2019
Good Employer guide
Employment guidance - produced by the National Association of Local Councils
Thu, 27 Jun 2013
Governance and Acccountability for Smaller Authorities in England: Practitioner's Guide - March 2019
Governance and Accountability for Smaller Authorities in England - a Practitioners' Guide to Proper Practices to be applied in the preparation of statutory annual accounts and governance statements - March 2019.
Tue, 09 Apr 2019
Governance and Accountability: Summary of changes for 2019
Summary of the changes from 2018 in the Practitioner's Guide
Tue, 09 Apr 2019
Grant Funds March 2017
Bulletin outlining grants that may be available for councils to access funding
Mon, 03 Apr 2017
Health Assessing Potential Employees
Health Assessing Potential Employees
The current inquest in to the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy has highlighted the need for due diligence from Council's in assessing the health of new recruits.
However, investigating the state of a potential Employee's health isn't straight forward.
Tue, 11 Aug 2015
Holiday Pay
Councils and other Employers who have historically paid holiday pay based on contracted hours, could have been underpaying their Employees if they routinely received overtime pay and other output related payments.
Wed, 17 Sep 2014
Holiday Pay - new guidelines
How much Holiday Pay should you pay?
Confusion about what to pay as holiday pay, has in part been resolved by Employment Appeal Tribunal's decision of the 4th November 2014 (Bear Scotland – v – Fultcher).
Wed, 12 Nov 2014
Holymoorside and Walton Parish Council Achieve Quality Status in LCAS
Holymoorside and Walton Parish Council are the first Derbyshire Council to achieve accreditation under the new Scheme, gaining a Quality Status.
Tue, 22 Dec 2015
HR Advice:Tackling mental health problems
HR advice note on how councils can fulfill their duty of care
Thu, 27 Sep 2018
HR briefing: Ledbury Report
HR implications and actions following the High Court Ruling against Ledbury TC
Sun, 10 Jun 2018
HR factsheet - depression, Jan 2017
Employer's responsibilities with regards to depression in the workplace.
Mon, 16 Jan 2017
HR factsheet July 2017: survive summer without an employment tribunal
Councils need to be aware that whilst asking staff to be flexible and cover for absent colleagues, they need to ensure that requests to work extra hours don't result in breaches of the Working Time Regulations 1998, which could result in claims at the Employment Tribunal for breach of statutory rights.
Tue, 11 Jul 2017
HR factsheet May 2017 - Employee Conduct Problems outside Work
For many Councils the conduct of staff outside of work is a grey area, and one which they are unsure about in terms of the
need for management to be involved. Most Councils take the view that once an Employee is off the premises, they are no longer accountable to the management. However, this premise has long been challenged and recently came into the spotlight in the case of NHS Doctor, David Arundel of the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, who assaulted a colleague during an out of hour's social event.
Wed, 17 May 2017
HR: Employment Contracts and short service dismissals
Employee's rights on a short term contract and how to avoid an employment tribunal
Mon, 21 Jan 2019
HR: Pressure on use of self employed contractors
Latest update on use of self -employed contractors
Mon, 18 Dec 2017
Internal Audit Checklist
2019 Internal audit checklist - please give to your internal auditor to enable them to undertake their role effectively
Tue, 09 Apr 2019
L02-19 Data Protection Fees
Briefing confirming that councillors do not need to pay a data protection fee in the course of their role as a councillor.
Tue, 11 Jun 2019
