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REMISSION OF PENSION
Contributory employees are subject to medical examination when they wish on
retirement to remit part of their pensions under the schemes of conditions of
service.
No such cases arose during the year.
TRAINING
The training of staff is a matter of major importance, not only to ensure that
administrative, professional, technical and clerical officers obtain at least basic
qualifications, but also to see that officers keep abreast of modern developments.
Facilities for training are offered by a large number of educational bodies up
and down the country, but we, in London, are particularly fortunate in that the vast
majority of our needs are met in the area.
The Education Committee of the Greater London Whitley Council, of which
the borough council is a member, provides vocational courses of interest to local
government officers. The scope of the work of this committee may be summarised
as follows :
(a) The preparation of model schemes for recommendation to local authorities.
(b) The regular review of the extent to which individual authorities are providing
basic training schemes.
(c) Securing the provision of suitable training facilities for examinations
with which local government officers are concerned.
(d) The organisation of lectures, conferences and courses related to the training
of local government officers, both directly and in co-operation with
local education and university authorities, other educational organisations,
etc.
(e) To make representations to the National Joint Council for Local Authorities'
Administrative, Professional, Technical and Clerical Services, subject
to the approval of the Whitley Council; and to the Local Government
Examinations Board.
(f) To co-operate with other Provincial Councils and with other bodies dealing
with matters of common interest.
The borough council is also a member of the London Boroughs Training
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