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I_am_mad

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

You only get paid for any mileage you are asked to drive by the Coordinator as part of your Collection round. You don't get paid for driving from your home to the start of your Collection round even if its on the far side of the area you agreed to take on (which could of course be very large indeed in rural Scotland) as I understand it.

It appears something of a con that they don't seem to consider your home address your place of work so that all mileage once you leave your home is paid but that equally you don't have a designated office address and that the whole Collection area in fact amounts to your office address.

In the area I have applied for the only town rather than village is 9 miles awar but the rural far side of the area is up to 30 miles away!

But for example once I have reached my first house and then I have another say 10 to do, which means I have to travel about 30 miles to get to each different house would I get paid for that 30 miles? If you see what I mean. I understand that we dont get paid to travel to the first house but does it start from here?

Thanks

cathj

I_am_mad wrote: »

But for example once I have reached my first house and then I have another say 10 to do, which means I have to travel about 30 miles to get to each different house would I get paid for that 30 miles? If you see what I mean. I understand that we dont get paid to travel to the first house but does it start from here?

Thanks

If you live within the district you are working in then you get mileage from when you leave your house. If you live out of the district you get mileage from when you hit the boundary of the district. (This is what our co-ordinator has told us and this is what the other early co-ordinator and I are doing hope she told us right! All our mileage has been authorised and this is what we have claimed as.)

Although you get paid training in forst wage without claiming you do have to claim your mileage you did to go to your training at that point.

NonGeographicalMan

I_am_mad wrote: »

But for example once I have reached my first house and then I have another say 10 to do, which means I have to travel about 30 miles to get to each different house would I get paid for that 30 miles? If you see what I mean. I understand that we dont get paid to travel to the first house but does it start from here?

If all the houses they ask you to deliver are considered to be in walking distance of each other then you seem to be expected to walk the whole thing. So the question only arises for rural areas where distances between houses are too far to be efficiently walked.

But taking a real world example (instead of your clearly nonsense example of each house being 30 miles apart) if they ask me to travel 30 miles to the far side of my area and then ask me to do 40 houses each a quarter of a mile apart on two four mile long roads I only get paid for the 8 miles I drive 30 miles away and not driving to the start of or end of the collection round 30 miles away as I understand it.

I suspect in reality the coordinators probably have some discretion on what they can sign off as expenses if they are short of volunteers to do the driving rounds to the big out of the way five bed houses and if they have to ask a late joining Collector to do rounds in various different parts of their area on one day (as may happen late on in the Collection exercise).

I_am_mad

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

If all the houses they ask you to deliver are considered to be in walking distance of each other then you seem to be expected to walk the whole thing. So the question only arises for rural areas where distances between houses are too far to be efficiently walked.

But taking a real world example (instead of your clearly nonsense example of each house being 30 miles apart) if they ask me to travel 30 miles to the far side of my area and then ask me to do 40 houses each a quarter of a mile apart on two four mile long roads I only get paid for the 8 miles I drive 30 miles away and not driving to the start of or end of the collection round 30 miles away as I understand it.

I suspect in reality the coordinators probably have some discretion on what they can sign off as expenses if they are short of volunteers to do the driving rounds to the big out of the way five bed houses and if they have to ask a late joining Collector to do rounds in various different parts of their area on one day (as may happen late on in the Collection exercise).

My post didnt say that a house was 30 miles from another house, I was saying that the 10 houses I was visiting in the day in total came to 30 miles travelling between the house not one house is 30 miles from another house.

lvm

I_am_mad wrote: »

which means I have to travel about 30 miles to get to each different house

I'm afraid you did say 30 miles to EACH house. Your entire area/district is most likely to all be within walking distance (4/5/6 streets all together depending on number of houses in each street). If the first house you collect from is 30 miles away, you do not get paid for this - it's just like travelling to your place of work. You generally don't get paid for that. If for some strange reason you had to travel for 30 WITHIN your collecting area, you would get paid for this.

I_am_mad

lvm wrote: »

I'm afraid you did say 30 miles to EACH house. Your entire area/district is most likely to all be within walking distance (4/5/6 streets all together depending on number of houses in each street). If the first house you collect from is 30 miles away, you do not get paid for this - it's just like travelling to your place of work. You generally don't get paid for that. If for some strange reason you had to travel for 30 WITHIN your collecting area, you would get paid for this.

Well it was only an example. I do live in the rural countryside anyway so chances are houses will be more spread about well I know they are maybe not 30 miles to each house but they are spread about in the middle of no where.

cathj

lvm wrote: »

I'm afraid you did say 30 miles to EACH house. Your entire area/district is most likely to all be within walking distance (4/5/6 streets all together depending on number of houses in each street). If the first house you collect from is 30 miles away, you do not get paid for this - it's just like travelling to your place of work. You generally don't get paid for that. If for some strange reason you had to travel for 30 WITHIN your collecting area, you would get paid for this.

My district is half of the whole town and 2 villages, the surrounding districts are the same as this, more than a couple of roads. I have also been told by my co-ordinator that because I live withing the district as well as claiming mileage from leaving my house I start my time from leaving my house.

ItsMe

katie125 wrote: »

would call up the recruitment team ItsMe and find out for sure what is happining with your application.

I applied for CCS Team Manager with interview on 26th Feb too. They contacted me with the usual conditional offer and I did online training last week but it was all very disorganised. I am still waiting for the DVD and printed copy of the instructions I was supposed to read before completing the training but as they only give you 5 days I had to just go ahead and do it anyway which was problematic in itself as I could only access first page of a two page assessment due to a website error which lasted 48hrs.:mad:

I now have been given my classroom training dates for 13-14 April.

I am waiting with bated breath to see how organised the next stages are going to be.

This is my third job application with this census and I have had a very hit and miss experience with previous two applications and I was put on reserve list for both but didn't hear anything despite being asked to complete online training which then never got emailed to me.

I can't quite work out wether it's worth the bother or not.

Thanks Katie 125 I'll give them a call tomorrow. Out of interest did you have a choice of classroom training dates and location?

ItsMe

ItsMe wrote: »

Thanks Katie 125 I'll give them a call tomorrow. Out of interest did you have a choice of classroom training dates and location?

I called Capita this morning - (incidentally this is the national number for them if anyone wants to avoid the 0845 number/use inclusive minutes etc. 020 7799 1525) - I was only on hold for about 5 minutes so not too bad and I was told that they were finishing the Collecting jobs at present and since the CCS jobs don't start until 18th April I would hear in the next week or so. At least I suppose I know I'm still in the running - just have to wait and see.

ItsMe

Ringing up this morning must have jogged something in the system because just a couple of hours later I got an email telling me I am on the reserve list and to complete the online training and send off the required id stuff.