Transparency
It is important to the Councillors in West Swindon Parish that there is transparency and accountability for its financial decisions and practices. To support this, in line with the Transparency Statutory Code requirements, we publish expenditure information over £500 and information about salaries.
Expenditure Exceeding £500
Details of payments for last year are as follows: WSPC Payments Over £500 2023-24
Historic payments over £500 can be viewed here
Fraud
Local authorities must publish information about any counter fraud work.
The Parish Council does not have any current fraud cases.
Constitution
Local authorities must publish their Constitution on their website. This must be published annually.
You will find all WSPC policies and procedures here
Grants to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Organisations
Information on grants approved by West Swindon Parish Council in the last two financial years is set out below. For information of approved grants prior to this timeframe please email contact@westswindon-pc.gov.uk
Further information on how to apply for a grant can be found here
|
Recipient |
|
Amount |
Financial Year |
Minute Ref |
|
Toothill Big Local |
|
£10,000 |
2022 - 2023 |
FC 97 AE |
|
Toothill Junior Youth Club |
|
£2,000 |
2022 – 2023 |
FC 232 |
|
West Swindon Library |
|
£14,000 |
2022 - 2023 |
|
|
Hardship Fund (West Swindon) |
|
£1,000 |
2023 - 2024 |
PLE 118.1 |
|
West Swindon Family Project |
|
£4,731 |
2023 - 2024 |
PLE 118.1 |
|
Toothill The Hub |
|
£3,702 |
2023 - 2024 |
PLE 118.1 |
|
Peatmoor Angling Club |
|
£633.68 |
2023 – 2024 |
FC 252 |
|
BEST |
|
£1,920 |
2023 – 2024 |
FC 252 |
|
Toothill Church |
|
£550 |
2023 - 2024 |
FC 252 |
Staff Structure
West Swindon Parish Council Staff Structure 2024
There are a number of exemptions and redactions from the data in line with the Transparency Code requirements, including the exemption of non-commercial payments to specific individuals which cannot be disclosed as they are covered by Data Protection Act requirements. Individual employee payments information are also not included.
Pay Multiple
To comply with the legislation, the council will operate a transparent pay system, based on objective criteria and publish pay details of staff in line with the requirements of the Local Government Transparency Code 2015.
- The Parish Council has seventeen employees of which there is one employee/Chief Officer (Clerk/Parish Manager) who is salaried above £50,000 at LC4 (46-54).
- For the purpose of this pay policy statement the Council’s lowest paid employees are defined as those paid at LC1 (9) , or closest to, for those that have TUPE’d to the Parish Council, for which the annual Full Time Equivalent salary is currently £25,014.68.
- Mean salary is £29,786.94. The Council does not have a policy regarding the ratio between the remuneration of its top earner, its lowest paid employees and other employees, the current ratio are detailed below
Ratio highest to mean is 1.99:1
Trade Union Facility Time
The Parish Council does not have any Trade Union representatives.
Local Authority Land
|
Land |
Address |
Owned or Leased |
Landlord |
Usage |
|
Land for use |
Frankland Road, |
Owned |
WSPC |
Allotment Gardens |
Social Housing Asset Value
Local authorities must publish details on the value of social housing assets within local authorities Housing Revenue Account. This must be published annually.
The Parish Council does not hold any Social Housing Assets.
Parking Account
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 breakdown of how the authority has spent a surplus on its parking account. This must be published annually.
The Parish Council does not have a parking account.
Parking Spaces
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.
The Parish Council does not have any parking spaces.