| Halton Borough Council Registration Service is used to helping people celebrate, but it has its own reason to celebrate today!
All registrars have completed and passed the Registrar General’s nationally accredited City and Guilds certificate Level 4. This involved two years of study, mostly in their own time and covered every aspect of registration work from the cradle to the grave and everything in between. Halton Borough Council’s Executive Board Member for the Registration Service, Cllr Stef Nelson said: “A registrar has a privileged position dealing with the public at the most emotional times in their lives, the joy of a birth, the excitement of a wedding and the deep grief experienced when a loved one dies. “All of these events have to be registered with strict adherence to quite complex rules, regulations, and within statute. It is reassuring to know our officers are so highly trained.” Registrars Pam Moore, Christine Ditchfield and Yvonne Macleod were formerly presented with their certificates by Mayor Cllr Alan Lowe on Monday 13 November. Civil Registration was born (pardon the pun) on 1st July 1837 eleven days after Queen Victoria came to the throne. Today’s world is very different, but some of the key reasons why civil registration was set up are just as valid today. The need to record all births that take place, as a protection to the individual who has been born as well as to aid with the planning of services. Officers need to clearly record marriages in a way which brought clarity to a previously erratic system. The need to record each death- again as a protection to individuals but also so that information on causes of death could be collated and studied. The service has seen many changes in recent years as civil registration reacts to the needs of a modern and changing society such as the introduction of civil partnerships, parental orders, presumption of death, marriage of same sex couples to name but a few.
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