Council Lea and Cottam form ... currently represented by three Conservative councillors, and together with Ingol forms Preston West division of Lancashire County Council, represented by one councillor , currently a Liberal Democrat Community. The Labour and Liberal Democrat opposition groups each proposed defeated amendments which would have seen household waste recycling centres revert to seven-day operation and longer opening hours – and offered up funding for their own road, flooding and drainage schemes. Updates for adult care providers, including COVID 19 provider engagement webinars and FAQ. People can apply to a number of care roles and specify which location they would like to work in. Self-isolating We have issued guidance for residents to change the way waste is handled at properties where possible COVID-19 cases have been identified. ***Increase domestic renewable energy. Bereavement . HP10 9TY | 01676637 | Registered in England & Wales. You may notice some vacancies that appeared on our site recently have been withdrawn, which is because they are no longer available to external candidates. County Hall finance officers had recommended that members support the full 4.99 percent increase allowed without a local referendum – which included a three percent hike ringfenced for adult social care, via a special precept allowed by ministers for that purpose. (Large parts of Lancashire’s rural villages are reliant on oil. “We have been businesslike in the way we have gone about the county council’s operations,” County Cllr Driver said. ***Investment of large scale solar on landfill or other land to create an income or fuel poverty fund and/or invest in community renewable schemes. A strategic authority, with responsibilities for roads, public transport, planning, emergency services and waste disposal, it was composed of 106 directly elected members drawn from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The budget would facilitate more and faster development of local exemplar decarbonisation projects in the renewable energy generation and local food growing in Lancashire though: *** Assisting in bringing specific projects to implementation. Guidance for providers who self-input on Lancashire County Council's Care Capacity Tracker. The area is represented by Lea and Cottam Parish Council. Report a business you don't think is following Government … However, a row over council tax levels dominated the debate, which was staged remotely because of the pandemic. To direct the remaining £3m from the Green Energy Fund to projects which: *** Reduce domestic fuel poverty through retrofit schemes at scale. Lancashire’s roads will get a £10m funding boost, while £5m will be pumped into flood defences after Lancashire County Council set its budget for the year ahead. Support for businesses. Lancashire County Council. ***Installation of solar panels on housing. Referring to the call from the Labour and Lib Dem groups to extend the hours at the county’s recycling centres “from early morning until late evening”, he added: “At both ends of the timescale spectrum, the actual use of the centres simply does not merit keeping them open – so by being businesslike, we save money that we can spend on the most vulnerable people in Lancashire. Presenting Labour’s budget amendment, County Cllr Tony Martin said that the party rejected the social care precept rise at a time when many are “furloughed or have been unable to ply their trade in the retail or hospitality sector for months now”. Lancashire County Council has backed calls for a national day of remembrance for the people who have lost their lives due to the covid pandemic. Includes NHS email accounts, template letter for staff, e-learning, and wellbeing and mental health information. However, County Cllr Martin said that he was not proposing taking a “single penny piece” from the budget, but instead funding it via the transitional reserves. Get involved with the news in your community, This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice. Increase council tax by 3.99 percent rather than 4.99 percent –  £5.197m, Additional investment in youth workers (recurrent) – £400K, Increase the book fund (2021/22 only) – £500K, Investment in museums web pages (21/22 only) – £50K, Investment in Environment and Climate Change Programme – £496K  (from 2022/23, full-year recurrent costs – £973K), Additional borrowing costs (recurrent) – £1.19m, Additional investment in flood defences – £5m, Additional funding for walking and cycling schemes £2m, Increase Council Tax by 1.99 percent rather than 4.99% – £15.583m, Reinstatement of household waste recycling centre provision  (full-time hours) – £734K, Reinstatement of welfare rights service – £380K, Investment in healthier living programmes – £500K, Reduce the winter gritting trigger temperature level – £110K, Reinstatement of highways – gully emptying – £283K, Feasibility study – Midge Hall railway station – £50K, Feasibility study – Coppull railway station – £50K, Residents’ parking schemes kick-start funding – £500K, The Greening of Lancashire County Council – £2m, Colne-Skipton railway – pump priming – £500K, Poulton to Fleetwood Rail link – pump priming – £500K, Fleetwood Power Barrage – pump priming – £500K, A56 villages bypass – pump priming – £500K, Skelmersdale rail link and station – pump priming – £500K, Lancaster station HS2 prep – pump priming – £500K, Preston station HS2 prep – pump priming – £500K, Burscough curves reinstatement – pump priming – £500K, Rawtenstall to Manchester rail link – pump priming – £500K, Eden of the North – transport planning – pump priming – £500K, Morecambe–Blackpool rail link – pump priming – £500K, Nursery Schools – Emergency funding – £1m, Increase council tax by 1.99% rather than 4.99% –  £15.583m, Reinstate seven-day opening at household waste recycling centres – £230K, Provide funding for street light energy costs to allow more flexible policy on times of dimming in locations where there are community safety concerns – £500K, Fund additional maintenance for highway drainage, with delegation to districts where there is local capacity to carry out work (including drainage schemes in capital programme) – £318K, Contribution to Ribble Rivers Trust Woodland Connect programme – £50K, Fund programme of establishing wildflower verges – £100K, Reduce budget for mileage and other costs due to new ways of working: -£1m, Cease provision of member champion grants: -£50K, Increase staff vacancy factor by a further 0.5percent:  -£1.721m, Reduce special responsibility allowance of Leader of County Council (with pro-rata adjustments to SRAs geared to that level) by 10 percent  and cease SRAs for Member Champions: -£63K, Increase drainage maintenance budget – £1.282m. Information for providers including the PHE NW COVID-19 resource pack for care homes. PO Box 78, County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8XJ, Workforce, training and recruitment support, Direct Payment and Personal Health Budget support, Safeguarding, DOLS, MCA, best interest and dementia advice for providers, Local communications to providers and service users, Government, NHS and NW ADASS advice and guidance. The Lib Dems had wanted to see a £15m capital investment in the roads and £1.2m spent on drainage maintenance, while the Green Party made an unsuccessful call an already allocated – but so far unspent – £3m of green energy cash to be put into reducing fuel poverty and installing solar panels on domestic properties. *** Work to explore overcoming challenges and exploit opportunities. Council leader Geoff Driver said that he had attempted to limit the impact of the rise and was recommending any increase “with some reluctance, because I am aware of the financial pressures facing the people of Lancashire at this time”. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. The authority’s share of the bill in the region will rise by just under four percent from April – below the maximum amount permitted by the government. ***Assist small-medium scale companies, and community collective and not-for-profit led initiatives. Cottam is a former farming community now almost entirely consisting of new build housing. In an assessment of each of the proposals not to take advantage of the full three percent social care council tax increase, chief executive Angie Ridgwell noted that it would be a “permanent reduction to the council tax base” – should whichever party is in control next year decide not to charge it as of 2022/23 either. With County Cllr Driver not standing for re-election in May, County Cllr Ali wished him well – before accusing him of having presided over “savage cuts to services across Lancashire”. The move, which won majority support, will add £56 to the charge on a Band D property, compared to almost £70 if the full increase had been introduced. Green Party county councillor Gina Dowding said that the money had been “waiting to be spent”. A call to increase the second homes council tax to double the standard rate have been submitted to Pembrokeshire County Council. Including the North West Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (NW ADASS) - COVID-19 bulletins which resumed February 2021. Home care (domiciliary) Information for providers. “People in Lancashire have suffered because of your regime and you will have to face that consequence,” he said. Residential and nursing care. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Whether you are looking for housing, employment, welfare, public services & amenities... your local county council can help. Lancashire County Council is looking to recruit people to help with its SMART testing programme to help identify people who have Covid, but don’t have any symptoms. A project funded by the Rural Community Energy fund grant looking at the feasibility of getting Chipping village off oil and onto low carbon heat infrastructure- an infrastructure project which could be replicated for other villages). Information for providers about COVID-19 testing for staff, personal assistants, unpaid and informal carers and within care homes. Free webinar aiming to support Lancashire businesses to safely reopen Businesses providing close contact services are being invited to attend a free webinar on safely reopening once permitted to do so by government. Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat group leader David Whipp said: “It’s just more than people can afford – people that have contacted me that are in dire straits due to the pandemic and the income loss they have suffered.”. “The [Lancashire] Conservative record on finances is made up of bribes to the electorate that have cost this council well over £110m,” he said, referring to a Tory decision taken in 2013 to cut council tax at the county council by two percent before local elections. The social care precept is able to be spread over the coming financial year and the next, but the Labour and Liberal Democrat opposition groups proposed levying none of it during 2021/22 – meaning their total council tax increases would have been 1.99 percent this year. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. ***Explore addressing supply chain and skills shortages for retrofit schemes. *** Work with developers and local stakeholders during the pipeline of projects. “The government has repeatedly talked of funding “shovel-ready” schemes to revitalise the economy after the pandemic is over – and it would be an opportunity to do some initial preparation [for] these schemes to make them eligible for funding if the opportunity arose,” County Cllr Martin said. A Gannett Company. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. “The proposals that [Labour] are recommending to find from balances is exactly why you got in a mess the last time you were in the amdinistration – and to keep spending money on ongoing expenditure and funding it from balances is a recipe for [the] disaster that you met before.”, He added that he had been waiting for deputy Labour group leader John Fillis to repeat a call he had made at last month’s cabinet meeting advising him “not to be irresponsible and not increase the council tax”. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. Includes bereavement care and support in specialist housing, deathbed etiquette for covid-19 and the NHS National Bereavement Line information. Includes bereavement care and support in specialist housing, deathbed etiquette for covid-19 and the NHS National Bereavement Line information. "As we've seen throughout the pandemic, different areas can vary at different times as local circumstances change. He said that anybody voting against the 3.99 percent council tax rise would be “voting for cuts” to the county council’s “big ticket” services. Each group put forward their own package of amendments to the budget presented to the county council, which had recommended a 4.99 percent council tax increase and included a forecast of £24.2m in savings across the next two years. “This isn’t just matter of recommitting [the funding] – itls time now to use it for exemplar and e instruction projects that can be more quickly rolled out and use the latest technology – and to tackle the wicked problems that are associated with climate change remedies,” said County Cllr Dowding, who also criticised the proposed rise in “regressive” council tax. The household waste cxentre at Heasandford, run by lancashire County Council, will remain open during the national lockdown starting 5th November, but only for "essential visits". “I listened, but you didn’t actually say it,” County Cllr Driver ended. A link to Lancashire County Council's Coronavirus information page. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. The latest news and information from the council, straight to your inbox, every month. But County Cllr Driver said that he had generated savings by improving “efficiency and effectiveness” – and had earlier noted that the authority’s £200m deficit in 2017 had been reduced to £46.8m today and would have been eliminated totally had it not been for the action taken to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. But he added:  “I am absolutely convinced that it is necessary if we are to maintain our financial viability and thereby protect the county council’s services. Labour had proposed a £2.5m recurring investment in flood resilience schemes every year, along with £5m for a “faster response” pothole programme, £500,000 for healthier living programmes, and a slew of individual pots of £500,000 in “prime-pump” funding for potential future projects, including a Fleetwood tidal barrage and to prepare Preston railway station for the arrival of HS2. “I put it to you that a worker furloughed on 80 percent of the minimum wage…is in no position to be asked to pay a 4.99 percent council tax increase at this time, “ he added. Information for care providers about the new coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme. Here is an alphabetical list of County Councils in England: ENGLAND. ***Enable the County as asset owners to engage with stakeholders, businesses and communities. Our Adult Social Care campaign is now live on our website and our social media accounts. A range of projects that could be developed to help Lancashire homes move to low carbon heating systems. Cabinet member for adult services, Graham Gooch, hailed the authority’s efforts in suportign the care sector during the pandemic – including sourcing £6m of PPE at the height of last spring’s shortage. Many of our current vacancies are restricted to internal applicants as part of the county council's approach to delivering its savings plans. As the situation is changing rapidly we are updating this website daily to ensure we can give you the most up to date position. Practical advice and guidance for businesses and organisations. Learning disability and autism services. To create a £100k decarbonisation budget to support development of projects above; In the developmental project stages such as to assist in identification and installation projects for renewable energy generation, retrofit of old housing stock and increase in local food growing. Lancashire’s roads will get a £10m funding boost, while £5m will be pumped into flood defences after Lancashire County Council set its budget for the year ahead. for gas boiler replacement. The party said that it was deferring the social care precept rise until next year, meaning that the impact on the authority’s longer-term finances would be minimal – an option also open to Labour and, in relation to the one percent of the precept that it did not levy, the Tories. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. However Michael Green – Conservative cabinet member for economic development – said that Labour’s proposals were “a mess”. “Unlike many local authorities in Lancashire and beyond, our finances are sound and our services our secure.”. Please use the form below if you have any general queries on our response to the COVID-19 outbreak: Financial support for adult care providers during the pandemic including the Infection Control Fund, Workforce Capacity Fund and Rapid Testing Fund. COVID-19 guidance for personal assistants, PA employers and direct payment recipients. ©Copyright 2001-2021. A notice of motion at the Full Council … Welcome to Lancashire County Council vacancies. We are following national advice and guidance on a daily basis and we will share information as soon as we can. Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services. Meanwhile, Lib Dem county councillor John Potter accused the party of making cuts over its current term of office that had not been “victimless”. ***Provide community and small-medium scale agro-ecological food growing and agroforestry projects. “Social care funding needs to come from Boris and it’s about time the [Lancashire Conservative group] grew up and fought for the most vulnerable in our county,”. Report a business. Includes links to guidance for professionals and families, easy-read guidance and accessible videos. The Government have issued guidance for those dealing with bereavement during the coronavirus pandemic. The capital investments were approved after being put forward by the ruling Conservative group on the authority, as political parties of all colours at County Hall vied for the public’s attention in the final budget before local elections due to take place in May. “They propose feasibility studies which have already been done and pump-priming for projects, some of which this administration has already done and others for which there is no business case.”. Invest £3m of unallocated Green Energy Fund for renewable energy projects. In addition to the road and flooding cash, the Conservatives allocated £2m for cycling and walking schemes, with an extra £400,000 each year for youth workers, a one-off £500,000 investment in the county’s book fund and £496,000 for a climate change programme of work. Information for providers including the PHE NW COVID-19 resource pack for care homes. However, the ruling Conservative group put forward an amendment to levy only a two percent rise to cover social care costs, along with a 1.99 percent general increase – boosting bills by a total of 3.99 percent. Buckinghamshire County Council Website Address: County Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP20 1UA Telephone: 0845 370 8090 Monday to Friday 9.00 am to 5.30 pm. Dr Sakthi Karunanithi, director of health and wellbeing for Lancashire County Council, said: "We are pleased that overall we’ve seen Covid rates in Lancashire reducing in recent weeks, but there's still some way to go. The Greater Manchester County Council (GMCC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater Manchester from 1974 to 1986. ***Address other supply chain challenges and opportunities e.g.