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Editorial policy Friday 1 March 2024
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Site security - can I see your ID?
Everyone has a responsibility to avoid allowing unauthorised access and tailgating into our buildings and sites. We all have a right to feel safe at work, including in our offices. It is important that we keep our buildings secure, to protect both ourselves and our data.
If you are visiting or working at a DCC site please make sure you have your smart card or ID badge with you at all times and remind yourself of our important safety measures while at work.
Remember to challenge anyone who tries to access the building without a DCC ID badge.
Please take the time to read our short guide about how you can help us to keep our sites and data safe.
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Thank you to colleagues who took time out of their day to learn more about the benefits available to them and to engage in the available sessions. We now want to hear your views so that we can evaluate the event and use your feedback to inform future plans, online sessions and events elsewhere around the county. Colleagues told us:
“Shaun Tetley’s Pension talk was excellent. It was just brilliant to hear from someone who is also an LGPS member. It made it so engaging, easy to follow and understand (let’s be honest, pensions are complicated!).”
“The atmosphere was fun, friendly and inclusive. Thank you.”
“A few members of my team took the opportunity to come into County Hall and engage with events, so it was a useful work ‘cross-over’ day for us.”
“Was a great event, got a lot out of it.”
Take a look at last week’s Staff Benefits and Wellbeing Event.
LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2024 returns on Monday 4 March to Sunday 10 March 2024 and remains the only adoption and fostering campaign to focus on on members of the LGBTQ+ community.
This year's theme, ‘Different Together’, calls on more LGBTQ+ people from the global majority to consider adoption and fostering, while also encouraging more people from the LGBTQ+ community to consider both routes to forming their families.
Looked after children from minoritised ethnic groups can wait the longest for suitable adoption and fostering placements. Our social workers often struggle to match these children with adoptive parents and foster carers with similar heritage.
Read more about LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week.
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We will soon be replacing DCC’s FINEST finance system with Unit 4 ERP. The Future Finance Project team is busy behind the scenes making sure we are ready for go live which is currently planned to take place in August. Read the latest update.
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Learning and development 💡
In person presentation skills training
Have you ever felt nervous at the thought of presenting in front of an audience?
Whether you are seeking to inform, persuade or simply get your message across professionally and concisely, this practical half-day workshop will provide you with the essential skills and tools needed to deliver a formal presentation in-person. Learn how to structure a presentation on any subject so that your audience takes with them the key points you want remembered and acted upon!
Help with technology change in 2024
Keeping on top of the evergreen world of technology can be challenging - things seem to change almost daily and it’s hard to know what to expect. If this statement hits home for you, you might be interested in the IT Change Team’s new session. Fast 15 Feature Updates is your short, 15 minute monthly briefing on some of the changes in Microsoft 365. Learn more at Viva Engage - Let's get digital!.
📅 Book your place on this or any of the Microsoft 365 support sessions through Sway.
Change and resilience sessions
Given the change that staff are experiencing, these engaging and practical learning sessions will give you the opportunity to share your challenges with peers and take away practical, helpful tools that you can use straight away.
See the full list of March dates for Change and resilience learning sessions.
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Access to Inside Devon is changing
Our Inside Devon staff web pages will soon be restricted DCC employees and selected partners only. You may be prompted to log in using your DCC email and password. Find out what will be changing in this article.
Are you aged 44 to 56 years old?
We have some new availability during March and April for the popular Midlife MOT workshops for DCC staff in the 44 to 56-year-old age range, including those working through the Temp Bank.
Is your food bill eating away at your weekly budget?
A few simple measures can help save money and reduce waste. Find out more on Inside Devon.
We'd love to see some of your photos of places in Devon to use in Where in Devon. Read the guidelines, get snapping, then send your pictures to the communications inbox.
We’re inviting families, professionals and community organisations to help shape services that support young families.
We are changing the way that young families are supported at Children’s Centres, and we are inviting those who use the services, as well as professionals and community groups, to help influence the changes.
It follows a national move, announced by the Government last year, for Children’s Centres to become Family Hubs, as part of its Start for Life Programme initiative.
In Devon that means extending the age range, from current services that deliver targeted support to 0 to 8 year-olds, to future services that provide targeted and universal support to 0 to 19 year-olds, or up to 25 year-old young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. And it would mean a wider range of services than present, including support from local community groups, working together to help young families.
We commission the charity, Action for Children, to run Children’s Centres in Devon on our behalf. Action for Children is already working with Plymouth and Torbay councils to help their transition from Children’s Centres to become Family Hubs, and now they’re working with us to do the same across the rest of Devon.
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