Democracy and transparency: key service websites

Democracy and transparency: A to Z of related services

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• Access a copy of your personal data

  Accessing your personal data and how to make a subject access request

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• Cabinet

  The Cabinet is the part of the Council responsible for most day-to-day decisions

• Committee meetings

  Each committee has a membership, which attends. There will also be a number of council officers, whose role within the council is to support the committee process

• Constitution

  The Constitution is the Council’s Code of Corporate Governance

• Coronavirus advice

  Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice on staying healthy and well, changes to Devon County Council services, education and support for communities, employers and employees.

• Council finance

  Council Tax, annual budgets and financial control

• Councillors

  County councillors - locate your local representative by name or electoral division

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• Data protection

  Data protection laws set out your rights over your own personal data and our pages help you exercise those rights and inform you how we process your data

• Data protection – your rights

  Your data protection rights (the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation) including how to make objections, request erasure, request restrictions and how to exercise your rights

• Democracy

  Access information about your councillors, decision making in Devon and how you can get involved

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• Elections

  County Council elections in England take place once every four years, when all 62 seats in Devon are up for election

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• Facts and figures about Devon

  A range of statistics, gleaned from a number of sources, about the people of Devon. You can also find information that the council has published as ‘open data’

• Forward plan – council meetings

  In line with the public’s general rights of access to information and the promotion of transparency in the way which decisions are taken by or on behalf of the Council, Devon County Council produces a Forward Plan of any Key Decisions to be taken by the Cabinet and any Framework Decisions to be made by the County Council

• Freedom of information

  How to access council information, links to published information, responses to previous freedom of information requests.

• Full council

  All councillors meet together as the Council. Meetings of the Council are normally open to the public. Here councillors decide the Council’s overall policies and set the budget each year

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• Have your say

  Help shape services across Devon

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• Impact assessments

  Information about the process we use to make sure we have considered the most effective way to use our resources and avoid causing problems to people in specific groups with protected characteristics

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• Leader of the Council

  John Hart, leader of Devon County Council

• Lord Lieutenant of Devon

  The main office of the Lord-Lieutenant is that of Her Majesty’s representative in the county, and it is his first and foremost duty to uphold the dignity of the Crown.

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• Meetings calendar

  View the democracy meetings calendar

• Minutes from Council meetings

  Search for committee minutes, agendas and reports

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• Notice of audit – accounts

  Devon County Council and Devon County Council Pension Fund Notice of Audit

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• Officer decisions

  View decisions made by officers and heads of service

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• Pupil place planning

  The team is responsible for all aspects of Children’s Services strategic planning

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• Record retention

  Information about how long we keep different types of records such as evidence of decisions and transactions

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• Scrutiny

  The Council's scrutiny committees independently monitor how the Council goes about its business and the decisions it makes

• Strategic planning and policy

  We work in partnership with district councils and neighbouring authorities on strategic and cross-boundary planning policy issues

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• Transparency code

  Devon County Council has an obligation to publish a range of information to comply with the Transparency Code 2014

• Transport planning

  Details of transport planning, research and consultation

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• Webcasts – council meetings

  From here you will be able to access webcasts of our live council meetings, view archived council meetings from the last few months, view or complete any surveys or polls and access any documents or presentations associated to the webcasts