How do I complete the IDB survey?

How do I complete the IDB survey?

SLCC and NALC would like local councils to complete a survey sharing information about how their council operates.

Parish Online are hosting the survey and the resulting map data to visualise the results.

To fill in the survey:
  1. Go to www.parish-online.co.uk/idb
  2. Start typing the name of your council into the Council Name box
  3. Select yours as it appears in the drop-down
  4. Click START SURVEY
  5. Fill in the survey questions as they appear, clicking NEXT after each one. If there are any you are not sure of that are optional, just click NEXT.
  6. Once the form has been completed, you can close the browser window, or go to the next step to browse the results in map form.
  7. Click CONTINUE TO MAP
  8. Use the interactive map to zoom to your area
  9. Expand any of the National Maps collections and click on any of the results to see a visualisation of the results.
If anything within your council changes, or you want to make amendments, you can go back to the start and fill in the form again.

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The Questions

If you'd like to consider the questions before starting the form, here they are:
  1. What is your email address?
  2. What is your annual gross budget expenditure?
  3. How many staff does your council have?
  4. How many of the following services do you operate or manage?
    1. Allotments
    2. Car Parks
    3. Cemeteries
    4. Closed Churchyards
    5. Equipped Play Areas
    6. Events
    7. Libraries
    8. Parks and Open Spaces
    9. Public Toilets
    10. Sports Grounds
    11. Theatres
    12. Village Halls / Community Centres
  5. Do you offer a community grant scheme?
  6. Do you carry out grounds maintenance?
  7. Do you run a regular newsletter?
  8. Do you carry out street cleaning?
  9. Do you own streetlights?
  10. Do you provide Top Up services?
  11. Do you provide any youth services?
  12. In the coming years, are you expecting to deliver
    1. More services
    2. Current level of services
    3. Less services
Then there are some more optional questions:
  1. Does your council have General Power of Competence?
  2. Does your clerk have CiLCA qualification?
  3. What level of LCAS does your council have?
  4. Is your clerk a member of SLCC?
  5. How many councillors do you currently have in post?
  6. How many councillor vacancies do you have?
  7. Does the clerk have another clerk role?
  8. What stage is your council in the Neighbourhood Plan process?
  9. What stage is your council in declaring a Climate Emergency?
  10. Has your council set a Net Zero target date?