Delivering the annual canvass - England

Staffing and resources

Staffing and resources

  • checking your resource assumptions and ensuring that sufficient funding will be available 
  • ensuring the availability of support staff from across the organisation, such as IT and frontline/call centre staff
  • reviewing your staffing structure to identify if current staffing levels remain sufficient
  • developing a staff training schedule, to include data protection considerations, for the different types of staff involved in the canvass
  • ensuring any storage requirements are sufficient, both for printed forms and scanned forms, and that you are not retaining personal data for longer than is necessary 
  • establishing how and when you will promote and communicate key canvass messages
  • briefing your media and communications teams about the key messages and dates and establishing how you will use your local authority website, press releases and social media platforms to encourage responses
     
Last updated: 3 June 2020