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• 12 May 2021
TALKS CONTINUE: Agreement hasn’t been reached yet with residents over how the gate to the Demesnes is secured but police are concerned about a rise in incidents
VEHICLE access to the lower Demesnes in Barnard Castle is to be restricted after a surge in anti-social behaviour and fears over traveller encampments.
Town councillors heard at last week’s meeting that police had been called out numerous times to deal with groups of young people gathering and damage caused by vehicles. Town clerk Martin Clark said: “Just today the police have been in contact to ask if the swing gate on the lower Demesnes is to be locked.
Collaborative, professional and highly valued
In our latest client feedback exercise, GAD clients rated us 4.6 stars out of 5 for being highly valued.
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12 May 2021
Clients of the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), have shared their views about the department in the latest client engagement survey. We sent 229 survey invitations to 84 of our clients over the 12 months to March 2021.
Feedback comments
In survey responses, more than 90% of respondents awarded GAD a rating of at least 4 stars out of 5 for being highly valued.
This year we supplemented the insights with qualitative feedback from 24 in-depth client interviews. Clients were asked which 3 words they’d use to describe GAD and findings were consistent with the survey comments. In response, GAD was described as collaborative, professional, helpful, insightful, proactive, influential and innovative.
Barnard Castle Ppicture: SARAH CALDECOTT A TOWN council will be full of fresh faces when it meets for the first time since last week’s local elections after only voters decided to stick with just three former councillors. The large-scale shift in personnel at Barnard Castle Town Council comes after the council lost an employment tribunal for the unfair dismissal of former deputy town clerk Jane Woodward amid “moral disapproval” of her personal relationship with a councillor. Ms Woodward was awarded damages of more than £55,000 and the saga was used by many new candidates who called for a change, and an end to the costly “sleaze”.
Barnard Castle Ppicture: SARAH CALDECOTT A TOWN council will be full of fresh faces when it meets for the first time since last week’s local elections after only voters decided to stick with just three former councillors. The large-scale shift in personnel at Barnard Castle Town Council comes after the council lost an employment tribunal for the unfair dismissal of former deputy town clerk Jane Woodward amid “moral disapproval” of her personal relationship with a councillor. Ms Woodward was awarded damages of more than £55,000 and the saga was used by many new candidates who called for a change, and an end to the costly “sleaze”.