Workforce and Local Services
The HROD Service develops the Our People Plan which sets out the approach that will be taken to ensure the Council has the right people in the right place with the right skills and behaviours to enable to delivery of the Council Plan. The HROD Team comprises groups of professionals that exist to deliver high quality policy, products and services across the key HR disciplines.
- Pay and benefits
- Reward and recognition
- Recruitment and retention
- Strategic workforce planning
- Employee relations
- Learning, skills and talent development
- Organisational and cultural development
- Staff engagement
Local Services delivers a range of universal neighbourhood services for residents and visitors to Warwickshire.
Libraries
The purpose and role of libraries is to fulfil Warwickshire County Council's statutory obligation to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. Warwickshire Libraries is also an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation providing a range of creative and learning programmes.
Services
- Lending and borrowing books.
- Digital library.
- Schools Library Service.
- Literacy and Reading programmes.
- Reference and learning.
- Study spaces.
- Use of public computers and Wi-Fi.
- Community events and activities.
- Use of Let’s Make spaces for digital engagement.
- Acting as warm hubs in winter months.
- Information and council enquiries.
Heritage and Culture
Heritage & Culture Warwickshire manages 5 professional areas of operation : Museums, Archives, Arts, Heritage Learning and Local Studies across 5 main sites of operation.
The service provides an annual learning and engagement programme, including curriculum-based schools programmes and community activity, with a focus on providing the broadest possible access to Warwickshire's Heritage & Culture. The service also has a strategic role in supporting the development of the Heritage and Culture infrastructure of the County.
Services
- Archives and Local Studies.
- Heritage education.
- Digital engagement with Heritage and Culture.
- Visitor exhibition programme at Market Hall Museum.
- Warwickshire County Record Office,
- St Johns House Museum.
- Hawkes Point Collection Centre.
- Chesterton Windmill.
- Outreach and engagement programmes.
- Exhibition programmes.
Registration Service
Warwickshire Registration Service provides a statutory service for the registration of births, deaths, stillbirths and marriages. The service supports key life events.
Services
- Notices of marriage and civil partnership (civil preliminaries) for all Warwickshire residents, not just for those marrying or forming a civil partnership in Warwickshire.
- The service also maintains births, marriages and deaths providing copy certificates when requested.
- The service is required to complete the registration of religious marriages that have taken place across the county.
- It conducts around 2,700 civil ceremonies a year, in both our own venues and 90+ licensed venues approved by the Registration Service. The service also offers a range of bespoke ceremonies.
- Citizenship ceremonies for Warwickshire residents.
- Naming and renewal of vows ceremonies.