- RESULT OF BALLOT FOR EC POST RESERVED FOR VICE CHAIR
GC 954 invited groups to vote for one of two nominated candidates to take up the post of Vice Chair. Following a count of the votes cast on Tuesday 30th of April 2024 by the Chief Scrutineer and Chief Teller, the results are as follows:
Name Votes
Roisin Lilley 12,078
Les Calder 7,371
Therefore, Roisin Lilley is duly elected to the EC Vice Chair post. We would like to thank both Les and Roisin for agreeing to their nominations and for their willingness to serve the EC and CSPA in the role. - CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONER NEWSLETTER- SPRING 2024
The latest edition of the Pensioner Newsletter from MyCSP, featuring the pension increase and questions around it, plus a guide to your P60, is at this link: Pensions News: Spring 2024 – Civil Service Pension Scheme
All working and active Civil Service Pension members now have a digital newsletter available. The online initiative is to save paper and postage but, if members require a paper copy of the newsletter, then this can be obtained by calling 0300 123 6666. - NPC WORKING GROUP NEWSLETTERS
CSPA is represented on the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) Working Group for Health & Social Care by our Health Policy Advisor, Jean Hardiman Smith, and on the NPC’s Digital Working Party by our Deputy General Secretary, David Luxton. I thought it might be helpful to include examples of these two groups’ more recent newsletters to give you a flavour of the work
that is being done on members’ behalf.
CSPA also sends representatives to other NPC working parties as follows:
Finance / Structure – Mike Sparham
Pensions and Income – Brian Sturtevant and Christine Haswell
Further information can be found on the NPC’s website here –
Working Parties | NATIONAL PENSIONERS CONVENTION (npcuk.org) - AGE INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER OF STATE
Through our affiliation with AGE Platform Europe, we have been recognised by the United Nations as an accredited NGO with rights to consultation on the UN’s work in promoting the rights of older people through the UN Open Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA).
The Deputy General Secretary attended at meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the 28th March, along with other pensioner organisation representatives, to discuss the UK Government’s approach to strengthening the international legal framework for the rights of older
people. The General Secretary counter signed the attached letter on CSPA’s behalf, addressed to Lord Ahmad, Minister of State for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office setting out AGE International’s expectations.
Further updates on our recent campaigns and work are provided on the CSPA website and will be included in next issue of The Pensioner. If you have any questions or require any further information about the matters covered by this Group Circular, please don’t hesitate to contact me, either by email at sally.tsoukaris@cspa.co.uk or by telephone on 020 8688 8418 (Office).
Sally Tsoukaris
General Secretary Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance
