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Transparency
Information on different subjects is available on this page. To go directly to each section please click on the following links:
- Council spending
- Spend per month
- Pay Policy Statement and senior staff salaries
- Council tax in Kent Districts
- Open Data Communities
- Voluntary and community sector grants
- Workforce equality data
- Public Sector Apprenticeships target
- Property services data
- Contracts register data
- Parking
- Fraud
- External Inspection and Peer Review
- Trade Union Facility
- Organisational Chart
- Constitution
- Registers
Information on council spending
The Communities Secretary has urged councils to publish details online of spending over £500 to increase openness and accountability. Information on payments we have made to suppliers over £500 from December 2010 is available to download below, as from August 2012 we have published the spending data over £250.
For each month the following information is shown:
- date of invoice
- transaction number (a unique reference number - to find out more about a payment please quote this number)
- amount paid on the invoice
- name of the supplier paid
- the service where it was spent
Please note that the information is based on the payment date.
Publication of these lists forms part of our commitment to be open and transparent with its residents. All data provided is freely re-usable under the following terms: Data Terms and Conditions.
The percentage of their invoices paid within 30-days for 2015/16 was 99% and the amount of interest paid to suppliers due to late payment was nil.
If you have any other questions about a payment then please contact the Customer Service Centre and quote the amount and transaction number.
Spend per month documents
Find the data we have on spend per month.
- January 2016 (CSV 64kb)
- February 2016 (CSV 65kb)
- March 2016 (CSV 115kb)
- April 2016 (CSV 66kb)
- May 2016 (CSV 90kb)
- June 2016 (CSV 98kb)
- July 2016 (CSV 76kb)
- August 2016 (CSV 101kb)
- September 2016 (CSV 79kb)
- October 2016 (CSV 69kb)
- November 2016 (CSV 99kb)
- December 2016 (CSV 65kb)
- January 2017 (CSV 81kb)
- February 2017 (CSV 75kb)
- March 2017 (CSV 131kb)
- April 2017 (CSV 59kb)
- May 2017 (CSV 96kb)
- June 2017 (CSV 96kb)
- July 2017 (CSV 77kb)
- August 2017 (CSV 94kb)
- September 2017 (CSV 71kb)
- October 2017 (CSV 96kb)
- November 2017 (CSV 99kb)
- December 2017(CSV 56kb)
- January 2018 (CSV 87kb)
- February 2018 (CSV 73kb)
- March 2018 (CSV 105kb)
- April 2018 (CSV 56kb)
- May 2018 (CSV 108kb)
- June 2018 (CSV 62kb)
- July 2018 (CSV 75kb)
- August 2018 (CSV 82kb)
- September 2018 (CSV 69kb)
- October 2018 (CSV 92kb)
- November 2018 (CSV 75kb)
- December 2018 (CSV 59kb)
- January 2019 (CSV 100kb)
- February 2019 (CSV 91kb)
- March 2019 (CSV 115kb)
- April 2019 (CSV 48kb)
- May 2019 (CSV 89kb)
- June 2019 (CSV 91kb)
- July 2019 (CSV 101kb)
- August 2019 (CSV 68kb)
- September 2019 (CSV 76kb)
- October 2019 (CSV 106kb)
- November 2019 (CSV 95kb)
- December 2019 (CSV 63kb)
- January 2020 (CSV 132kb)
- February 2020 (CSV 64kb)
- March 2020 (CSV 136kb)
- April 2020 (CSV 56kb)
- May 2020 (CSV 62kb)
- June 2020 (CSV 68kb)
- July 2020 (CSV 110kb)
- August 2020 (CSV 110kb)
- September 2020 (CSV 84kb)
- October 2020 (CSV 79kb)
- November 2020 (CSV 73kb)
- December 2020 (CSV 151kb)
- January 2021 (CSV 111kb)
- February 2021 (CSV 209kb)
- March 2021 (CSV 242kb)
- April 2021 (CSV 107kb)
- May 2021 (CSV 129kb)
- June 2021 (CSV 122kb)
- July 2021 (CSV 97kb)
- August 2021 (CSV 100kb)
- September 2021 (CSV 105kb)
- October 2021 (CSV 101kb)
- November 2021 (CSV 91kb)
- December 2021 (CSV 102kb)
- January 2022 (CSV 108kb)
- February 2022 (CSV 63kb)
- March 2022 (CSV 165kb)
- April 2022 (CSV 96kb)
- May 2022 (CSV 63kb)
- June 2022 (CSV 158kb)
- July 2022 (CSV 92kb)
- August 2022 (CSV 102kb)
- September 2022 (CSV 92kb)
- October 2022 (CSV 122kb)
- November 2022 (CSV 91kb)
- December 2022 (CSV 94kb)
Pay Policy Statement and senior staff salaries
The Government has set out its clear commitment to improved transparency about how it spends public money. This includes details of the size and shape of public bodies and about the remuneration provided to senior public servants. This is consistent with the Information Commissioners guidance that senior public servants should expect a degree of scrutiny of their remuneration arrangements. The Pay Policy Statement sets out details of the terms and conditions for employees at the council including the details about salaries of senior staff. The organisation chart illustrates how the council is structured.
Below you will find documents relating to senior staff salaries and our organisational chart.
More information may be found at Local Government Transparency Programme.
Gender pay gap
From 2017, any employer that has 250 or more employees will need to publish and report specific figures about their gender pay gap.
The gender pay gap is the difference between the average earnings of men and women, expressed relative to men’s earnings.
The Council must both:
- publish the gender pay gap data and a written statement on the council website
- report the data on the government gender pay gap reporting website
The figures must be calculated using a snapshot of the salary data on 31 March each year.
You can download our gender pay gap report (PDF 588kb).
You can also read our Workforce Strategy for 2019 to 2022.
Mean Hourly Pay: 14.01% pay gap.
Median Hourly Pay:
- Males £16.39
- Females £13.70
Pay Gap - 16.41%
Proportion of Employees Receiving Bonus Pay:
- Males – 17.65%
- Females- 16.97%
Council Tax in Kent Districts
You can download the Council Tax bands by district for 2018 to 2019, excluding parish precepts (CSV 1kb).
Open data communities
Find out more about open data communities on the Department for Communities and Local Government (the DCLG) website.
The pages in this link illustrate a selection of the data held by the DCLG relative to the Swale Borough Council area, broken down into 5 general sub-headings of Housing, Finance, Deprivation, Wellbeing and Geography.
Voluntary and community sector grants
The separate registers below in CSV format focus on and list grants from Swale Borough Council to voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2019-20
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2018-19
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2017-18
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2016-17
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2015-16
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2014-15
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2013-14
- Voluntary and Community Sector Grants 2012-13
Workforce equality data
Find the data we have on workforce equality.
Public Sector Apprenticeship Target
The public-sector apprenticeships target was introduced by government in April 2017 and sets a target for any public-sector employer in England with at least 250 employees to employ an average of 2.3% of their staff headcount as new apprentice starts between 1 April 2017 and March 2022.
We recently reported back to central government our progress towards meeting the target for the 2021/2022 year where we reported that we were employing 1.62% of our headcount as apprentices on the 31st March 2022.
The Council continues to recruit and support apprentices. The Council also has a strategy to review posts when they become vacant to consider whether they could be made apprenticeship posts, and to open further opportunities.
The Council offers apprenticeship training to existing employees to support upskilling of our own workforce and provide opportunities for progression that we might not otherwise have been able to afford to.
The following figures reflect the reporting period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
Number of employees who work in England
Number of employees who work in England on:
- 31 March 2021: 305
- 31 March 2022: 308
No. of new employees who started work between 01/04/21 to 31/03/22: 32.
Number of apprentices who work in England
Number of apprentices who work in England on:
- 31 March 2021: 4
- 31 March 2022: 5
No. of new apprentices who started work between 01/04/21 to 31/03/22 (this includes both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship): 3.
Reporting percentages
Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) as a proportion of employment starts between 01/04/21 to 31/03/22: 9.38%.
Percentage of total headcount that were apprentices on 31 March 2022: 1.62%.
Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) between 01/04/21 to: 0.98%.
Reporting percentages
31/03/22 as a proportion of total headcount on 31 March 2021: 0%.
Property services data
Find the data we have on Property services data
Contracts Register
Find the data we have on our contracts.
- Quarter 3 contracts register 2022 to 2023 (CSV 110kb)
- Quarter 2 contracts register 2022 to 2023 (CSV 115kb)
- Quarter 1 contracts register 2022 to 2023 (CSV 115kb)
- Quarter 4 contracts register 2021 to 2022 (CSV 117kb)
- Quarter 3 contracts register 2021 (CSV 109kb)
- Quarter 2 contracts register 2021 (CSV 99kb)
- Quarter 1 contracts register 2021 (CSV 94kb)
- Quarter 4 contracts register 2020 (CSV 104kb)
- Quarter 3 contracts register 2020 (XLSX 92kb)
- Quarter 4 contracts register 2017/2018 - Quarter 2 2020 (CSV 15kb)
- Quarter 3 contracts register 2017/2018 (CSV 45kb)
- Quarter 2 contracts register 2017/2018 (XLS 49kb)
- Quarter 1 contracts register 2017/2018 (XLS 56kb)
View our commissioning and procurement page for information on tendering opportunities.
You can view our contracts register online.
Parking
Find the data we have on parking data.
- Parking data 2019 - 20 (XLSX 19kb)
- Parking data 2018 - 19 (CSV 3kb)
- Parking data 2017 - 18 (XLS 14kb)
- Parking data 2016 - 17 (XLS 16kb)
- Parking data 2015 - 16 (XLS 18kb)
- Parking data 2014 - 15 (XLS 12kb)
- Parking data 2013 - 14 (XLS 33kb)
- Parking data 2012 - 13 (XLS 33kb)
Additional information can be found by downloading our Annual Parking Report 2013-14 (PDF 101kb)
Fraud
Find the data we have on fraud data.
- Fraud data 2018 - 19 (CSV 1kb)
- Fraud data 2017 - 18 (XLS 34kb)
- Fraud data 2016 - 17 (XLS 28kb)
- Fraud data 2015 - 16 (XLS 29kb)
- Fraud data 2014 - 15 (XLS 26kb)
- Fraud data 2013 - 14 (XLS 25kb)
External inspection and peer review
From time to time the Council is subject to external challenge by others within the Local Government Sector. This provides validation concerning the systems and processes we have in place, but more importantly serves as a mechanism to help us drive forward further improvement.
Trade Union Facility
The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 requires local authorities to publish information on trade union facility time
The Council recognises UNISON, and there is a history of co-operative employee relations. As a result of this cooperative approach, a range of fair employment policies are in place.
For period 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019
The total number of employees who are trade union representatives is:
| Headcount | FTE |
UNISON | 5 | 5 |
Percentage of time spent by union officials on facility time is:
Percentage of time | Number of employees |
0% | 0 |
1-50% | 5 |
51%-99% | 0 |
100% | 0 |
Note: only 2% of facility time is spent by union officials.
Percentage of pay bill spent on facility time:
Total cost of facility time | £7,062 |
Total pay bill | £11,167,379 |
Percentage of pay bill | 0.06% |
There has been no time spent on paid trade union activities.
Organisational chart
You can download the organisational chart (PDF 84kb).
Constitution
To read our constitution, visit the council section of our website.
Registers
Our registers, including public health funerals and licensed houses in multiple occupation.
Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permits
Register of animal establishments
Caravan sites
Members' allowances
Register of licensed HMOs
Assets of community value
The list of assets of community value includes maps showing the locations of the assets, which is available online only. Alternatively, you can download the maps for:
- Abbey Physics Community Garden (PDF 4.93MB)
- Carpenters Arms Public House (PDF 3.73MB)
- Chequers Inn, Doddington (PDF 4.23MB)
- Rose and Crown Public House (PDF 2.45MB)
- Sheepwash Field, allotment land (PDF 2.56MB)
- The Umbrella Building, The Old Faversham Brewery (PDF 5.61MB)