This section will provide ongoing help and recognition for clerks who choose
to become accredited via the Certificate in Local Council Administration.
It is important to note that this accreditation is entirely independent of the
Quality Parish Scheme (QPS). In other words, clerks who chose to have
their skills at Local Council administration recognised - whether their Council
is interested in QPS or not - now have another option open to them for
recognition of their skills and knowledge as a clerk.
For further information on this, please contact Susan
Harding at the ChALC office.
Known accredited clerks are as follows...
| Clerk |
Council(s) |
| Ann Banks |
Sandbach Quality
Town |
| Jennifer Brockbank |
Bollington Town (RFO) |
| Peter Cooper |
Congleton Quality
Town |
| Sandra Devenney |
Upton by Chester and District Quality Parish |
| Denise Draper |
Goostrey |
| Ian Fynn |
Congleton Quality
Town |
| Will Gibson |
Knutsford Town |
| Riddell Graham |
Nantwich Quality
Town |
| Mike Hassall |
Tarvin Quality Parish |
| Emma Hewitt |
Winsford Quality
Town |
| Brian Hogan |
Poynton with Worth Parish |
| Jeanette Hughes |
Helsby Quality Parish |
| John McDonald |
Tarporley Quality
Parish |
| Sue Richards |
Antrobus Quality Parish |
| Richard Salmon |
Broxton and District |
| Steve Sharman |
Northwich Quality
Town |
| Alan Warburton |
Winsford Quality
Town |
| Frank Walton |
Cranage Quality
Parish
Somerford
Quality Parish
Twemlow
Quality Parish
|
| Jean White |
Audlem
Quality Parish
|
| Jonathan Williams |
Middlewich Quality
Town |
| Ann Wright |
No Mans
Heath and District Quality Parish |
|
Clerks who are unattached to a council
|
|
John Barratt
|
|
|
Terry Crosswell
|
|
| Mike Howard |
|
|
Sue Langley
|
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NALC have a comprehensive website covering the CiLCA located at: -
http://www.nalc.gov.uk/Training/CiLCA.aspx
Some myths to be exploded...
 | The preparation of your CiLCA portfolio will take about 25 hours. |
| From the point of REGISTRATION you have twenty-four months to submit your
portfolio. This means that you can prepare much of the information
before you register. |
| This is NOT a compulsory scheme. You do not have to complete it. |
| This ONLY applies to Local Councils. Qualifications in
Administration, Law, Principal Authorities or any other industry is
irrelevant when accessing qualification for Local (i.e. Parish or Town)
Council Administration. |
| Whilst ChALC cannot participate in putting your portfolio together, we can
offer advice on what you should be doing to ensure that you have the highest
possible chance of becoming accredited first time. |
| This does not challenge the "competence" of a clerk. It
doesn't matter if you have been a clerk fifty minutes or fifty years.
A baseline has been set for accreditation. It is up to you whether you
wish to be recognised by your peers as having achieved this baseline. |
| Experience matters. If it did not, why would a clerk of fifty years
experience (in Cheshire) have submitted - and passed - a portfolio for
recognition? |
