Data Transparency and Freedom of Information

Data transparency:

• Details of all Parish Council expenditure are published in the monthly agenda. The Council minutes also contain details of payments including invoices received too late for inclusion in the agenda. For  further information please contact the Clerk.
• Details of the audited accounts for the last three financial years are given below. For information about earlier years, please contact the Clerk.
• Further downloads available:
  • Code of conduct for councillors
  • Openness and transparency on personal interests (guide for councillors)
  • Standing orders
  • Financial regulations

Audit notices for 2022-23

Exercise of public rights

By law any person interested has the right to inspect a smaller authority’s accounts. The period of inspection is 16th June 2023 to 27th July 2023. A copy of the detailed notice of the period for the exercise of public rights is available here.

Audit notices for 2021-22

Exercise of public rights

By law any person interested has the right to inspect a smaller authority’s accounts. The period of inspection is 11th June 2021 to 22nd July 2021. A copy of the detailed notice of the period for the exercise of public rights is available here.

Notice of conclusion of external audit 2021-2022

Notice is hereby given that the external auditor has signed off the audit for Blewbury Parish Council. The Notice of Audit Conclusion can be accessed here. Other audit completion documents can be accessed here.

Audit notices for 2020-21

Exercise of public rights

By law any person interested has the right to inspect a smaller authority’s accounts. The period of inspection is 11th June 2021 to 22nd July 2021. A copy of the detailed notice of the period for the exercise of public rights is available here.

Notice of conclusion of external audit 2020-2021

Notice is hereby given that the external auditor has signed off the audit for Blewbury Parish Council. The Notice of Audit Conclusion can be accessed here. Other audit completion documents can be accessed here.

Notice of completion of audit 2020-2021

Notice is hereby given that the audit for the year ending 31st March 2021 was completed and submitted to the external auditor on 24th July, following the completion of the internal audit on 6th July.

The audit submission documents can be accessed here.

Audit notices for 2019-20

Exercise of public rights

By law any person interested has the right to inspect a smaller authority’s accounts. The period of inspection is 13th July 2020 to 21st August 2020. A copy of the detailed notice of the period for the exercise of public rights is available here.

Freedom of Information and the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 (GDPR):

THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities and places a number of obligations on them. Every public authority is required to adopt and maintain a publication scheme setting out the classes of information it holds and how the public can gain access to it.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), came into force on 25 May 2018.

While the Freedom of Information Act tried to free up public information to public scrutiny, the purpose of GDPR complements this by ensuring that private information stays private and is within the control of the individual concerned.

For further information, downloads are available below:

•  Policy 1 Public Right Of Access
•  Policy 2 Privacy notice
•  Policy 3 Data Breaches
•  BPC GDPR Audit
•  Form 1 Consent Form
•  Form 2 Subject Access Request Form

Classes of information available under The Parish Council Model Scheme adopted by Blewbury Parish Council is available here.  For more background information on the Freedom of Information Act, please see this link.