Certificate in Local Council Administration (CiLCA)
This Level 3, foundation qualification provides you with a broad knowledge of all the aspects of a Clerk’s work – roles and responsibilities, the law, procedures, finance planning and community involvement. CiLCA is suitable for all officers working with local Councils. CiLCA is flexible enough to suit candidates from the diversity of local Councils.
We recommend that you’re in post for a minimum of 9 months before starting this qualification.
What’s In It For Me?
CiLCA will demonstrate that you have the knowledge, confidence and skills to: inform your Council’s activities, its roles and responsibilities; advise on its duties and powers within the law; ensure its compliance with proper financial practices
What’s In It For My Council?
CiLCA can help you to support your Council to: achieve standards of good practice and procedures; adapt to changing legislation; involve and engage with community; set out its budget and strategy accordingly
Furthermore, CiLCA qualifies you and your Council in England for the purposes of the Local Council Award Scheme (Quality and Quality Gold) and eligibility to use the General Power of Competence
How can the Council help?
As an employer, the Council should support you; it is advised to
- Pay all costs: The investment is rewarded from the outset.
- Manage your workload: Too many demands can hinder your achievement.
- Provide and protect study time if your hours allow it: It is worth preventing delay.
- Show an interest in your progress: This is encouraging and demonstrates support.
- Listen to your advice: The aim is to improve the Council’s performance.
Steps to CiLCA
- Complete the online training needs analysis questionnaire.
- Meet with CiLCA tutor to discuss your training plan.
- Follow the guidance given by the CiLCA tutor
- Attend Clerk Toolkit and other training if needed
- Agree with your Council to undertake the qualification
- Complete the CiLCA Learning Agreement
- Download the portfolio guide to help you study.
- Attend at least the first two portfolio training sessions.
- Apply to SLCC to take the CiLCA qualification see intake dates below
- Start to submit your portfolio using EMMA.
How much will it cost?
We run a series of 4 training sessions that covers the whole portfolio, these can be booked at a cost of £35.00 per session.
From 1st October 2020 the price to apply to SLCC to take the qualification is £410 (non-vatable) payable to SLCC.
Referrals
The current re-sit fee is £10 per learning outcome. There is no charge for the first referral. View more information on referrals in the Referrals Policy 2019.
CiLCA Intake Dates
All prospective CiLCA candidates will be registered through the SLCC on the EMMA system in bi-monthly intakes. Candidates will have one year from the intake date to complete the CiLCA qualification.
CiLCA Intake dates: 1 February | 1 April | 1 June | 1 August | 1 October | 1 December
