Salisbury update and some recent success stories

Hello,

Welcome back to those of you who took leave during the Easter holidays and we hope you have come back feeling refreshed.

There continues to be a large amount of focus on the Salisbury community recovery and last week we held our third community update, with well over 300 people attending City Hall to hear the latest developments and ask questions. We also broadcast this meeting online and, to date, this video has been seen more than 5,500 times, which shows the huge amount of interest in the issue - and also highlights how using this kind of digital technology can help us engage with even more people.

To find out the latest updates on the ongoing situation, visit our dedicated web pages at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/salisbury

Now for a few success stories…

• Congratulations to our Youth Offending team who, after a two year process of improvements and continual assessment, have just been awarded the Achievement for All Quality Mark by the Department of Education for the support they give eight to 17-year-olds who encounter the youth justice system.

• Last week we hosted the latest stage of the Local Government Challenge, which seeks the best and brightest local government officers to compete in a series of real-life challenges around the country. Senior corporate support officer Kartar Singh is among those taking part this year – although there are a few more challenges to go before the winner is chosen, being selected to take part is a great achievement in itself.

• Congratulations to our #EPIC staff engagement group, whose work has just been shortlisted in two categories at the HR Excellence Awards. Their work was shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding employee engagement strategy’ category, while the way we’ve used existing technology for #EPIC engagement was shortlisted in the ‘Most innovative deployment of HR technology’ category. We’ll find out in June if the team have been successful.

Earlier this week the #EPIC group provided an update on their work at our regular forum with Heads of Service and managers. We also discussed the recent health and wellbeing staff survey results, and our digital programme.

Finally, our recruitment to Tier 2 continues. We are currently out to advert for three director roles – finance and procurement, learning disabilities and mental health, and education and skills. We have also offered the role of Director Housing and Commercial to a candidate and will update you on this when we are able to.

You can see our latest highlights presentation here. 

Alistair, Carlton and Terence