Deputy Clerk
Welwyn Parish Council is recruiting a full time Deputy Clerk to join the team. Please contact the Clerk for more information.
Closing date for application 15th February 2021
Welwyn Parish Council is recruiting a full time Deputy Clerk to join the team. Please contact the Clerk for more information.
Closing date for application 15th February 2021
Please click here for a downloadable pdf version of the survey
Ottway Walk and Whitehill play areas will remain open during this lockdown, if you visit them please ensure you follow Government advice on social distancing and hand washing. Stay and play safe!
The latest edition of Welwyn News will be delivered through residents doors by the end of August. If for any reason you don’t receive a copy you can pick on up from the Parish Council office between 9am and 1pm Monday to Friday. You can also view a copy on line Welwyn News
Following recent activity on local social media pages Welwyn Parish Council have liaised with Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council with regards to the status of Singlers Marsh. As a result, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Leader, Councillor Tony Kingsbury, has made the following statement: “No decisions on the ownership of Singlers Marsh will be considered until the overall local plan site allocations are approved”
Testing in Hertfordshire & new ‘Test and Trace’ explained
The new national NHS ‘Test and Trace’ programme has been launched and is now in operation in Hertfordshire.
This means that if you have a test which shows that you have coronavirus, you
will be contacted by someone from the NHS Test and Trace team. You will be told
that you must self-isolate for 14 days and will be asked to supply the details
of anyone you have been in close contact with, from the two days before your
symptoms started. Those people will then also be contacted by the NHS Test and
Trace team and told that they need to self-isolate for 14 days.
If you receive a positive test result, or if you have been in close contact
with someone who tests positive, it is very important for your own health and
the health of those around you that you self-isolate. This applies even if you
feel well and don’t have any symptoms. You could still be a carrier of the
virus and the people you meet could get the virus from you and be seriously
affected.
Stopping COVID-19 from spreading is crucial to prevent more lives from being
lost.
Genuine contract tracers will:
while self-isolating
close contact with from the two days before your symptoms started
Search online for ‘NHS Test and Trace – ‘how it works(link is external)’ for more information. You will never be asked to disclose bank details or ring an expensive phone number beginning with 09 or 087 by a genuine Test and Trace team member.
Improved access to test booking
Anyone in Hertfordshire with suspected coronavirus symptoms
can book either a mail-order or drive-through test if they need one. For those
who can’t go online to www.gov.uk/coronavirus(link
is external) to book a
test, or for anyone who needs additional help, a new telephone call centre is
available – ring 119 between
7am and 11pm or 18001
The coronavirus call centre can help you to book a test, answer your enquiries about the testing process and what to do once you have your result, or chase up any delayed results.
Hertfordshire’s mobile test sites are all open between 10am and 4pm and are as follows:
Please bring a phone to the test centre if you have one.
New antibody tests becoming available
in Hertfordshire
A new COVID-19 antibody blood test, which shows whether someone has been
exposed to the virus in the past, is beginning to be rolled out to NHS staff in
Hertfordshire. The test is starting to become available to those who want to
take part and is carried out by a healthcare professional, taking a sample of
blood.
Although the test can tell somebody that they have had the virus in the past, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they are immune to getting it in future. Everyone must continue to follow social distancing and hygiene measures and must isolate if they are a close contact of someone who tests positive for coronavirus.
The test is designed to help the government and scientists to gain a better understanding of how the virus spreads and how different areas have been affected.
Please click here for information and contact numbers that you might find useful at this time.
Everything within is a booklet produced by the Welwyn Parish Plan Group and includes valuable information about local services available to the vulnerable members of our community. Welwyn Parish Council has a few copies in the office, if you or someone you know could benefit from having a copy, please let us know by calling 01438 716667 or emailing office@welwynpc.org.uk and we will post one out.
Please click here to view Everything Within on line.