The government has published 'The Code of Recommended Practice for Local Authorities on Data Transparency' which effectively recommends parish councils which have a gross annual income or expenditure (whichever is the higher) of at least £200,000 to publish 'Public Data'.

The Government has implemented this Code of Practice The Transparency Code for local authorities to provide greater transparency of public bodies, which is at the heart of their mandate to enable greater democratic accountability over how council tax and public money is spent.  However Public Data does not include personal information as this would contravene the Data Protection Act 2018.

In accordance with the Code of Recommended Practice and general good practice, Chalford Parish Council makes the following information available. 

Local Authorities must publish details of each individual item of expenditure that exceeds £500 consistent with Local Government Association guidance.  This must be published quarterly.  This document can be found here

Local Authorities must publish details of every transaction on a Government Procurement Card.  This must be published quarterly.

 Chalford Parish Council does not use a Government Procurement Card as defined by the code. 

Local Authorities are required to publish details of every invitation to tender for contracts to provide goods and/or services with a value that exceeds £5,000.  Publish details of any contract, commissioned activity, purchase order, framework agreement and any other legally enforceable agreement with a value that exceeds £5,000.  This must be published quarterly.

 Chalford Parish Council does not have any procurement over £5,000.

Local Authorities must publish details of all land and building assets.  This must be published annually.

This detail will be coming soon 

Local Authorities must publish details on the value of social housing assets within local authorities Housing Revenue Account.  This must be published annually.

Chalford Parish Council does not have any Social Housing Assets 

Publish details of all grants to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.

 Chalford Parish Council have a Small Grant Scheme and Grant Award Recipients.  These can be found here. 

Publish an organisation chart covering staff in the top three levels of the organisation.  This must be published annually.

Chalford Parish Council currently employs five members of staff.  The staff structure can be found here

This must be published annually.,

 Chalford Parish Council does not have any Trade Union Representatives. 

Local Authorities must publish on their website, or place a link on their website to this data if published elsewhere; a breakdown of income and expenditure on the authority's parking account, and a breadown of how the authority has spent a surplus on its parking account.  This must be published annually.

 Chalford Parish Council does not have any controlled parking or a parking account. 

Local Authorities must publish the number of marked out controlled on and off-street parking spaces within their area, or an estimate of the number of spaces where controlled parking space is not marked out in individual parking bays or spaces.  This must be published annually.

 Chalford Parish Council does not have any controlled on or off-street parking spaces. 

Local Authorities are required to publish details of nay senior employees (including job description, responsibilities, budgets and number of staff) earning over £58,200 per annum.  This must be published annually.

Chalford Parish Council does not have any senior employees. 

Local Authorities mujst publish their Constitution on their website.  This must be published annually.

 Our Standing Orders can be found here. 

Local Authorities must publish the pay multiple as defined as the ratio between the highest taxable earnings for the given year (including base salary, variable pay, bonuses, allowances and the cash value of any benefits-in-kind) and the median earnings figure of the whole of the authority's workforce.  This must be published annually.

The ratio between the highest taxable earnings for a given year and the median earnings figure for Chalford Parish Council:

Total Gross Pay for the year ending 31-Mar-25 = £160,070

Highest Pay = £40,476

Number of employees = 5

Median = £37,035

Ratio = 1:1 (£40,476/£37,035)

These calculations include part-time employees’ total salaries as full-time equivalents, not pro rata.

It is recommended that local authorities should  publish total number of cases of irregularity investigated, total number of occasions on which a) fraud and b) irregularity was identified,  total monetary value of a) the fraud and b) the irregularity that was detected and total monetary value of a) the fraud and b) the irregularity that was recovered.

Chalford Parish Council has no staff members undertaking fraud investigation work and therefore has no information to publish.