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Welcome to this week's edition of Insider
This week, the county remembered more than 11,000 Devon men and women who died in the First World War and recognised the enormous contribution made by Devon residents.
There are some ICT services updates coming up that you need to be aware of, and on the subject of being aware, a phone scam has been brought to our attention by our Trading Standards team and Devon and Cornwall Police.
And we congratulate our long-serving foster carers who go above and beyond on a regular basis!
Contributions to Insider are always welcome - we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Spending cuts to continue says County Council Leader
There will be no let-up in the savings that local
councils have to find over the next few years no matter who wins the General
Election, Cllr John Hart is warning.
We are inviting people to help influence decisions about how future savings could be made via the Tough Choices website.
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 Shaping our future services
We find out from our Chief Executive, Phil Norrey what our Operating Model is, how it fits into our organisation and links into our Better Together vision, and what it means for you.
(You will need head phones or speakers to listen to the interview)
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 CLT goes paperless!
Each member of our Corporate Leadership Team (CLT) has been issued with an iPad to help reduce the amount of
papers that they would normally have to work with.
They
are all using the BoardPacks app as well, which facilities paperless meetings.
Their meeting on Monday had a full agenda that otherwise would have required printing out
over 80 pages per person attending
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Devon Remembered
A two-minute silence was observed on Tuesday to mark the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. At County Hall this was marked by a ceremony attended by staff, senior officers, councillors, students from ICSA college and representatives from the Royal British Legion.
Find out the many ways Devon is remembering through the dedicated website
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£6 million boost from Devon Stage of The Tour
This year’s Devon Stage of the Friends Life Tour of Britain generated more than £6
million for the local economy, according to an independent report
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3000 voice recognition system
In order to bring our voicemail and 3000 system up to date
and make it compliant with Public Services Network (PSN) regulations, we will be upgrading to the latest
version on the evening of Tuesday 25 November from 6.00pm. While
this work is being completed there will be a short period of downtime during which
calls via 3000 and 5000 will fail.
The new version brings some
additional features which will be implemented over the coming months. However,
all previously stored settings and voicemail messages will be transferred from
the previous version. You will notice that the login screen and home page
will look slightly different. However all the current options will still be
available. Please contact the Service Desk if you have any queries
Advance Notice of Email
Downtime
ICT Services need to undertake some maintenance on our ‘old’
email and webmail service, Exchange 2003. As an old service, this does
not currently meet the security standards necessary to be PSN compliant.
This needs to happen by 12 December. To make Exchange 2003
compliant, ICT will need to take down various email servers. This
work will start on Monday 17 November and will last until Sunday
23 November from 8.00pm - 10.00pm.
Will you be affected? (PDF Version)
Fibonacci upgrade
Do you run TRIM/CareFirst reports?
The Fibonacci reporting software will be upgraded at the
end of Thursday 20 November, between 4.00pm and 5.00pm. You will not be able
to use any Fibonacci templates during this time. If you try to do so, a log-in
window will be displayed which you will need to close before you can continue.
The upgrade includes enhancement to the Child Chronology
to retrieve information from TRIM as well as CareFirst. This will mean that
running the Chronology will generally take a few seconds longer, but should
regularly save hours of work by bringing the information together.
Any queries should be referred to the Social Care Service
Desk on x2222 option 2
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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. 4,700 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, 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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Microsoft
Lync 2010
Lync
is now available to all of us!
Lync
is more than just an instant messaging tool. You can have group discussions,
there is an interactive whiteboard, and it is a great way to see if someone is
available quickly. Sending a message on Lync doesn’t clog up your inbox, and
your email won’t get lost in the mire.
For
more information please check out the ICT Service Desk page here
about Lync. Look under ‘Microsoft Lync guidance’ for the new quick start guide
and FAQs, with video/audio content coming soon!
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What a Plank!
With evidence
that sitting for too long isn’t great for our health, it makes sense to try to
build more activity into our working day. Our Early Years and Childcare team is doing just that, by taking part in the ‘Plank
Challenge’.
Find out more (PDF version)
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Are
you Deaf (hard of hearing, profoundly Deaf) and work for Devon
County Council?
Dan Ray is heading up a project to put together a Deaf Awareness (Equality) module on
e-learning and would like to appeal to fellow Deaf colleagues for their
valued input.
The
objective of his e-learning video is to assist colleagues with tips
on how to cope when they come across an internal or external Deaf
customer.
If
you would like to assist him with some input, please email Dan to find
out what you can do help
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Occupational Therapy Week came to GMH
To celebrate
National Occupational Therapy week, our Care Direct Plus East Occupational
Therapy team erected stands in the public and staff area of Great Moor
House, Exeter to promote their profession.
There were posters, leaflets and
freebies, as well as the opportunity to eat delicious home-made cakes whilst
completing a short quiz on the OT profession. Have a go!
(Left to right) Jenny Altria, Belinda Macklin, Emma Muirden,
Su Willoughby, Robert Moass and Sarah Sparkes
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Meetings in session
Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Monday 17 November @ 2.00pm. Agenda
Place Scrutiny Wednesday 19 November @ 2.00pm. Agenda
People Scrutiny Thursday 20 November @ 2.00pm. Agenda available soon
Job vacancies
View this week's DCC vacancies
Coaver Café Hot Meal of the Day
The menu for week beginning Monday 17 November
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 Award ceremony celebrates long-serving Foster Carers in Devon
The annual Carer Celebration Awards took place at County Hall where over 60 carers received a certificate of appreciation. Around 120
people, including many foster children, gathered to recognise the
achievements of carers who have given between five and 30+ years of their
lives to fostering.
Find out who the longest-serving carers were
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Have a happy, healthy Christmas this
year - get your flu jab…
We recognise the serious impact that flu can
have on staff, so we are encouraging those who work in frontline social care to
get the flu jab.
Tell your manager if you have had it so that
they can record and update their spreadsheet.
staff.devon.gov.uk/flujab (PDF version of Source pages)
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Relocation,
Relocation, Relocation
Totnes Fulfilling Lives is now known as Totnes Learning Disability Service and is now based
at Rushbrook, Station Road, Totnes, TQ9
5HW. They have a new telephone number - 01803 863010.
Devon
Youth Service which previously operated from The Pulse at the Mansion is now located at Rushbrook too.
Rushbrook
has been designed to be used by a range of groups including providing support
for adults with learning, physical and sensory disabilities, and includes a
changing place facility.
Picture taken at the official opening of Rushbrook
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Children in Care Awards 2015
In March 2015 we will be holding an event to celebrate the achievements of
children and young people in our care.
This
is a scheme to recognise and say well done to individual children and young
people for real achievement.
Successful nominees will be awarded a certificate and voucher.
This is your opportunity to nominate a young person you think has achieved
something significant over the last twelve months
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16 Days of Action
16
Days of Action Against Domestic Violence is aimed at businesses to support them
to take action against domestic abuse and violence. As employers, we have a
legal obligation to assess dynamic risk and support the health and safety and
wellness of our employees. The toolkit is supported by Public Health England
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New Heritage Trust for Somerset and Devon
The Westcounty's rich past gained a new champion this week when the South West Heritage Trust took over management of heritage services previously run by Devon and Somerset County Councils.
More on our newscentre
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Telephone scammers pretending to be police officers
Devon & Cornwall Police and Devon & Somerset Trading
Standards are warning residents to be aware of a telephone scam which appears
to be becoming increasing prevalent in the Devon and Cornwall area
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 New food labelling regulations require allergen
information
New food labelling
regulations that come into force from Friday 12 December will mean that all
food products, bought from shops or in cafes and restaurants, will have to
display information about their allergen content
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The Royal Mail has unveiled a scheme that will see almost 150,000 people become the nation’s “eyes and ears” in the hunt for vulnerable adults and children who go missing in the UK
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Who said:
“There is a bit of me that sort of says if you are going to miss it when
it is gone, that's kind of what we were trying to achieve and actually it is
good that it is going."?
Send answer
Last week's quote:
"Closing
down on Twitter while filming. In a place whence I've been advised it is safest
not to tweet. See you December."
Last week's winner:
Karen
Armstrong, Business
& Customer Technical Assistant
Last week's answer is Stephen Fry
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London’s tourism board, VisitLondon, has launched a competition to find a
“guest of honour”, promising a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience
London as never before”.
And...
Italian performance artist Sven Sachsalber is to spend the next two days
trying to find a needle in a haystack in a Paris museum
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