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Welcome to this week's edition of Insider
Have your say on budget spending priorities for 2015 - 2016 as we look to save a further £50 million.
It's National Adoption Week and not only are we marking this in a very special way, but our Devon Adoption Team has won a major industry award. Congratulations to them all! Our Public Health team is also celebrating winning a No Smoking Day award.
Have a look at how the South Devon Link Road is gathering apace, and please remember to keep your staff directory profile up to date.
Contributions to Insider are always welcome - we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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 This year (2015/16) a further saving of £50 million is required
as a result of the Government’s latest Comprehensive Spending Review.
This will be followed by a saving of at least £34 million in 2016/17.
Help to influence our decisions about how future savings are made by telling us your priorities, and by encouraging others to also take part
County remembers the First World War
There are many ways to get involved and commemorate the
centenary of the First World War, and the Devon Remembers website is proving a
fantastic resource providing a wealth of information about local research
projects, commemorative events, and links to other organisations and
resources.
See how people across the county are getting together to share their stories and discover more ways to mark the anniversary (PDF version).
- A flag raising ceremony will take place at the Bellair Flagpole, County Hall, on Tuesday
11 November (please gather at 10.50am). If you so wish, please take time from your day to
observe the two minute silence at 11.00am, and please respect the wishes of
those around you
CLT meet outside the office
Our Corporate Leadership Team recently visited Cranbrook and the Science Park as part of a minibus and walking tour. The tour included: Phase 1 of Cranbrook, Younghayes Centre, the Primary School, Railway Station due to open early in 2015, Education campus under development, Phase 2 of Cranbrook, E-On Energy Centre to view the district heating system.
They also visited the Science Park where the Met Office's new super computer will be based.
Pictured: CLT outside the Younghayes Centre in Cranbrook, with officers Jamie Hulland and Peter Quincey
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 Introducing Re:work Devon
Our Re:work Devon blog sits alongside our Better Together vision to share our thinking, projects and progress around supporting change and transformation in the Council.
We wish to invite collaboration through discussion and feedback and for it to be somewhere for you to listen and respond to what others are saying.
The latest blog entry focuses on Inspiring our Vision and Operating Model - join the debate!
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Microsoft Exchange 2010 roll-out continues throughout November
ICT Services is
rolling out Exchange 2010 to all staff, updating your Outlook email service.
The Exchange 2010 migration will continue into November as planned, and so far approx. 2700
staff have been migrated. Don’t panic if you haven’t migrated yet, user
accounts are being migrated in alphabetical order (unless agreed otherwise).
To assist with the
roll-out, can you please make sure you close Outlook at the end of each working
day until you have been migrated. There may be a small delay in
Outlook fully opening the first time you use it after you have been updated to
Exchange 2010. More information (PDF version)
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 Do you use Carefirst?
Important information about staff entries
Carefirst users are reminded that when searching for
a member of staff on Carefirst it is essential that the “Employee” role
category is selected from the drop down list.
Why is this important? (PDF version)
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Help us to find you – the success of our staff directory depends
on what you put into it…
Our
staff directory is only as good as the information we feed it so
it’s important to keep your profile information as accurate as possible.
Not
only does a correct profile promote your individual skills, it also ensures we
can respond quickly and efficiently to external and internal enquiries.
The control is yours, the responsibility
is yours (PDF version)
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Parking at
County Hall
Please
remember to be respectful to colleagues when parking your car by making sure you
park inside the bay lines. Tailgating the barrier is not allowed so don’t
attempt this under any circumstance. If you do, it will result in a parking
ban
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Meetings in session
Cabinet Wednesday 12 November @ 10.30am. Agenda
This meeting will be available to view as a webcast
Job vacancies
View this week's DCC vacancies and this week's internal vacancies
Coaver Café Hot Meal of
the Day
The menu for week beginning Monday 10 November
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 Picture includes adopters; adopted children; Cllr James McInness, our Cabinet Member for Children, Skills and Schools; our Chief Executive, Phil Norrey; our Leader, John Hart; our Chairman George Gribble; and members of the Devon Adoption Team.
Giving children the chance to grow
It’s National Adoption Week and it’s a double celebration!
Our
Devon Adoption team has won a major industry award as part of National
Adoption Week 2014 (3 November to 9 November). The British Association
of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) has announced Devon Adoption as 'Local
Authority Adoption Team of the Year'.
And
to celebrate National Adoption Week 150 daffodil bulbs were planted
yesterday representing children waiting to be adopted at any one time in Devon.
We are working together with Plymouth City Council and Torbay Council
to encourage more people across the county to consider adoption.
We’ve been privileged to interview several Devon adopters, who all have their own personal journey to tell. They share their adoption stories
V for victory!
Our Public Health team has won 1st place in 2014 No Smoking Day Awards for the category of Best Community/Local Partnership
Tania Dunphy, who is on work experience with our Communications team, explains why the team was victorious! (PDF version)
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 Torrington dementia centre of excellence completed
Light, bright and welcoming, these are just a few things that residents,
service users and staff are saying about our newly
refurbished centre of excellence for dementia care in Great Torrington.
Take a look at Woodland Vale
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 Plans for new school in South Molton come a step closer
Plans for a new school in South Molton are set to come a step closer next week. Our Cabinet is being asked to spend £750,000 on a site for a new building to replace South Molton’s outdated junior school.
Full story on our NewsCentre
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The
Children's Commissioner for England needs your views
Help make a difference for children in care and care leavers by taking part in
the annual Care Monitor survey. The Commissioner will use the results of the survey to tell
the Government and other decision-makers what life in care is like.
When asked
please enter our area’s unique code: MEE008
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 Dementia words matter
Guidelines on language about dementia
These recommendations are written by 20 people with dementia who came together for a day in Liverpool to discuss the words that are used about dementia. This may be useful for many of you producing materials or when referring to dementia in your work
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#NOBLURREDLINES - Rape awareness campaign
This week Devon and Cornwall Police has launched a new campaign targeted at students and young people to help change attitudes to sexual offences.
The #NOBLURREDLINES campaign will target men and women aged between 16-37 to educate and inform them that sex without consent is rape.
Promotional materials are available. Find out more
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Top marks
for Devon Highways
The Department of Transport has provided
feedback which shows that our bid to the Pothole Fund was one of the
strongest.
The Council received just over
£9 million from the Government’s Pothole Repair Fund after successfully bidding
for a share of £168 million, following the wettest winter on record.
In feedback from the DfT, Devon
was ranked joint first out of three of the four aspects of the application
process, and was joint second overall out of the 148 authorities considered.
Altogether, with an additional
£7 million from the Severe Weather Recovery fund, Devon has received an extra
£16 million this year from the Government to carry out highway repairs. The
funding is being used to repair around 120 miles (193km) of roads across the
county
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Constructing the South Devon Link Road
A short aerial film showcases the large scale development of the South Devon Link Road A380 Bypass, which links 'Hamelin Way, Torbay' to 'Penn Inn Roundabout, Newton Abbot’ over a distance of 5.5km
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Parkruns are up and running across the county!
With support from Active Devon, Cornwall Sports Partnership and the
South West Lakes Trust, Parkruns are popping up in more and more
locations across the county. The key to the success of Parkrun is that it is totally managed by local volunteers.
Get moving to one near you!
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 Stover County Park and Nature Reserve going for gold in the Devon Tourism Awards 2014
Our park and nature reserve is up for either a bronze, silver or gold in the Access & Inclusivity Award category. Find out more
We wish them the best of luck!
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Adoptive parents across the country have received a personal letter of thanks from the Children and Families Minister, Edward Timpson
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Who said:
"Closing down on Twitter while filming. In a place whence I've been advised it is safest not to tweet. See you December."?
Send answer
Last week's quote:
"I
prefer not to dwell on that aspect and focus more on the joy that the game has
brought to so many over the years."
Last week's winner
Terry Hill, Oakwell CCSC, Barnstaple
Last week's answer is John Spinello
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