Tandridge District Council’s taking part in this year’s Customer Services Week which starts today. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of customer service and the vital role it plays in successful businesses.

Apart from using the week to promote excellent customer service, all members of the Council’s Corporate Management Team are going to become temporary members of Customer Services and will be answering the phones and working on reception during the week. Staff from different service areas across the Council will also be taking part.

The Council would like your feedback on their service. You can pop in to the Council offices in Oxted and fill out a card or do it online on the the Tandridge website.

You can fill out the survey at www.tandridge.gov.uk/customersurvey

Two people from Crawley won this year’s Buchan Country Park Photography Competition.

Vicky Rowe, won the adult competition with a black and white portrait image of her partner and son walking through the park – and – 11-year-old David King, won the young photographer award with a shot of a red damselfly sitting on a leaf.
The winning photographs, along with a selection of the others submitted for the competition, are on display at the Countryside Centre at Buchan Country Park.

There are concerns about the future of local health services after the Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group – or CCG – decided to award a contract for the delivery of new musculoskeletal services.

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are worried it would have a detrimental impact on some of their services.

Katie Armstrong, Chief of the CCG says their decision is in the best interests of patients.

However, Chair of West Sussex Health and Adult Social Care Select Committee, Margaret Evans, says that they want further reassurances that other services will not be negatively affected.
As of yet, the contract has not been signed.

Surrey needs to find £215 million over the next five years to provide for the expected 13, 000 school places needed.

Surrey taxpayers make a contribution of £6 billion to the national Exchequer annually but receive less than £1bn back.

Almost 3,000 extra school places will be made by the next academic year.
This September, more than 4-thousand-1-hundred extra places were created in time for the start of the academic year.