Parish Council Awarded National Accreditation

Rodington Parish Council has been received a prestigious national award as part of the Local Council Award Scheme. This achievement recognises that the council achieves good practice in governance, community engagement and council improvement. Moreover, Rodington Parish Council goes above and beyond their legal obligations, leading their communities and continuously seeking opportunities to improve and develop even further.

The Award Scheme report highlighted the council’s particular areas of strength, including its commitment to good governance, internal council improvement and community engagement.

The Local Council Award Scheme is a peer assessed programme that has been designed to both provide the tools and encouragement to those councils at the beginning of their improvement journeys, as well as promoting and recognising councils that are at the cutting edge of the sector. It is through the sector working together to share best practice, drive up standards and supporting those who are committed to improving their offer to their communities that individual councils and the sector as a whole will reach its full potential. During the assessment of Rodington Parish Council they were encouraged to apply for the level up award called the “Quality Award” as the Parish Council already meets a great deal of the higher level of criteria.

Rodington Parish Council becomes one of only two Local Councils in Telford & Wrekin to currently hold a level of this accreditaion (April 2023). The Parish Clerk was quoted as being delighted with the accreditation. “this award certifies our belief that we are working hard to ensure that we support a properly managed Parish Council that seeks to be more and do more than many will anticipate for such a small council. In applying for this accreditation, we wanted to test ourselves, while we say we’re good at what we do this was to test and see if we actually stand out to our peers”.

In terms of the future, the council is now reviewing ways in which it can keep on improving its offer to the local community and welcomes input from local people and partners on this. Rodington Parish Council and other local councils like it, are at the front line of the government’s localism agenda and are doing as much as they can to delivery services whilst being efficient and cost-effective.