Hello all and a big welcome to the warm and sunny weather, finally. As you probably know from my previous newsletter updates, we are working hard this year to move all our usual classroom training courses to virtual delivery. This seems to be popular as all our courses to date have been oversubscribed. Thanks….. I … Continued
I hope many of you have been able to enjoy the relative quiet of the half term break. I certainly have enjoyed a couple of days off and lots of glorious sunshine. As we continue through this busy time of year, no doubt you are continuing to work hard to navigate your way through the … Continued
In the last few weeks, you have coped with a variety of elections (under very difficult circumstances) and set up your AGM in physical format, whilst running your member induction programme. And I’m sure you are all feeling very tired indeed. The lot of a Democratic Services Officer is certainly challenging at the present time, … Continued
I hope you are well and managing to navigate the brave new world. It has been a busy few weeks for me, as I write this I am two weeks on from working 38 hours solid for the election. I am not sure I have caught up with my sleep yet, my little boy came … Continued
Firstly, well done to all of you who’ve had elections to run last week. I know that some Councils had four consecutive days of counting votes for the different contests immediately after polling day and there are even one or two by-elections scheduled already (sorry, Wiltshire colleagues). But I know it’s not over yet for … Continued
I hope you all survived super Thursday and managed to get some slight rest after your counts. Now onto inductions and Annual Council. You will have seen our statement on the judgement re public attendance at meetings but just in case you missed it with everything else going on, here it is: https://www.adso.co.uk/member-update-virtual-meeting-judgement-following-post-script/ We realise … Continued
ADSO/LLG High Court Action – Remote Meetings By now you will know the outcome of the legal action taken by ADSO and LLG and that the court dismissed the application for the continuation of remote meetings. The ADSO chairman, John Austin, worked tirelessly on the case along with colleagues from LLG and it is thanks … Continued
I hope you have been able to enjoy a ‘lockdown eased’ activity amongst all the election preparation. I attended my first ‘in the garden, rule of 6’ gathering a week ago and felt like a six year old at their first birthday party (no party bags unfortunately but there was cake!). And I have just … Continued
As we start to emerge from lockdown 3.0 I hope you are starting to regain some parts of your pre-COVID social lives. For someone who loves nothing more than a trip to the pub I am extremely disappointed to say that work commitments have prevented me from enjoying a trip to the beer garden… I … Continued
I hope that you all managed to get some rest over the Easter long weekend, it feels a long time ago already, especially after last week. Many of you will have been busy on Friday afternoon following the announcement of death of The Duke of Edinburgh; thankfully at Essex our plans were up to-date, but … Continued
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