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Course focus

Housing & Environmental Investigations

Date:
12 December 2008
Venue:
ETC Venues, London
CPD:
4.5

Training programmes

Committees - Stage 2


A practical workshop for Committee Managers and Solicitors

  • Broaden your knowledge and understanding of the new Constitutions and ethical arrangements
  • Explore some of the more practical issues which may be causing difficulties back at the office
  • Share good practice with colleagues from other Local Authorities operating different executive models and alternative arrangements


If you’ve already grasped the basics, this will increase your confidence, improve your impact and enable you to more effective in working with Members and managing meetings under the new Constitutions.

Topics for discussion include:

  • The implications of new structures for:
     - Decision-making
     - Access to information
     - Rights of members
     - Member / Officer relations      
  • Practical problems in managing meetings    
  • Executive decision-making     
     - Key decisions and the forward plan
     - Recording of Executive decisions
     - Decision making by portfolio holders 
  • Overview and Scrutiny
     - Holding the Executive to account
     - Call in procedures
     - Officer support structures
  • Planning and regulatory functions
  • The role and work of the full council
  • Problems for ‘hung’ councils
  • Dealing with issues of conduct

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