Democracy and Transparency: key service websites

Democracy and Transparency: A to Z of related services

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• Access to information

  How to access information that the Council holds about you and your family

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• Cabinet

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

• Chairman of the council

  The Chairman of Devon County Council is elected annually, at the Council’s Annual Meeting

• Committees

  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

• Councillors

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

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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

  Facts and Figures brings together a range of statistics, gleaned from a number of sources, about the people of Devon

• Freedom of information

  The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) gives a general right of access by the public to all types of recorded information held by public authorities such as Devon County Council

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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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• Keeping Devon’s data

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

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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

  Calendar of events

• Minutes and agendas

  Search Minutes Agendas and Reports

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• Officer decisions

  View decisions made by Officers and Heads of Service

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• Scrutiny

  We have four Scrutiny Committees that independently monitor how the Council goes about its business and the decisions it makes

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• Webcasts

  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