POWERS AND DUTIES

The Powers and duties section of the LG Inform Plus website provides English and Welsh councils with guidance and information on current legislation affecting what they have the discretionary power to do, and what is required of them by law.

It is maintained against a changing legislative framework and has the potential to save Local Government substantial costs, time and expertise.

RECORDS RETENTION

Councils are required by law to keep records for a certain period of time, depending on the category of the record. LG Inform Plus provides retention guidance for subscribers to ensure help authorities meet business needs. . As the costs of storage, monitoring digital security and version controls, compliance with Freedom of Information (FoI) requests and the possibility of hefty fines can be considerably high, this section of the web site is designed to provide guidance to those dealing with records retention.

One of our trusted data analyst will happily help broaden your understanding of the system and answer all of your questions in this 30 minute, bitesize training session from the comfort of your own desk.

You will be sent a phone number so you can join a conference call and a URL so you will be able to see our computer screen, then in the session we will work through various sections of the site to show you how it works.

Please visit the LG Inform website to stay up to date with all of our current and up and coming online training sessions.

If you are interested in attending this session please email lginform@local.gov.uk