Member Development 2023

The Member Development Plan

The member development plan is designed to support Councillors to have the skills and understanding required to perform their Councillor duties. The calendar of events for 2023 can be found below. The page will be regularly updated as new trainings and new information for the trainings is added. Members are encouraged to attend all trainings when possible. 

As well as internally run training, the plan will highlight events hosted by the Local Government Association. Each month, one or two webinars (when available) will be selected but Members are welcome to explore other webinars provided by the LGA by following this link. If there are extra webinars you wish to attend, please contact rosie.kenyon@gloucestershire.gov.uk for help with registering your attendance. More events will be added as they are scheduled by the LGA. Members are also encouraged to make use of the LGA's e-learning resources.

Where available, links to additional relevant resources have been added.

Training topic

Date

Delivery

Useful Resources

 

January

 

 

Treasury Management Training for Audit and Governance Committee

 

13th

10:00 - 

13:00

 

Arlingclose

 

DSU - Andrea Griffiths

 

Clarification of the role and remit of HOSC

31st

NHS Gloucestershire

 

 

February

 

 

Member Code of Conduct Training

 

Teams Meeting

10th

09:30-12:30

Rob Ayliffe

 

DSU - Will Wheatley

Slides (PPTX, 584.2 KB)

 

Recording

 

March

 

 

 

April

 

 

Mental Health Crisis Care Training

 

Zoom

Cancelled

Bronwen Williams – NHS Gloucestershire

 

DSU - Will Wheatley

Training description

Mental Health Crisis Care Training

 

Zoom

Cancelled

Bronwen Williams – NHS Gloucestershire

 

DSU - Will Wheatley

Training description

Tackling Violence and Intimidation Against Women and Girls

 

Hybrid - Cabinet Suite

18th 

10:00-12:00

OPCC, Public Health, Gloucestershire Constabulary and Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service

 

DSU - Sophie Benfield/Will Wheatley

Motion 908

 

Slides, extra links and recording 

Corporate Parenting Workshop

 

Teams

20th

10:00-12:00

Su Turner

 

DSU - Will Wheatley

Training description

Recording

Corporate Parenting Workshop

 

Teams

27th

17:00-19:00

Su Turner 

 

DSU - Will Wheatley

Training description

Recording

 

May

 

 

Minerals -Planning Committee Briefing

 

Teams

11th

10:00 - 13:00

 

DSU Andrea Griffiths

The training session/presentation will focus on upcoming major minerals development planning application and will feature an information presentation and factual Q and A.

 

June

 

 

TRO Briefing

 

Hybrid - Cabinet Suite, Shire Hall & Teams

7th

14:00-16:00

Hannah Basset-Louis

Recording

 

July

 

 

Concur Training

 

 

Teams

5th

10:00-11:00 or

16:00-17:00

Grant Stevens

Training Briefing (DOCX, 140.3 KB)  

What reasons for travel can be claimed

https://eu1.concursolutions.com/nui/signin 

https://gloucestershirecc.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/sites/FinancialMngmntHub/SitePages/SAP-Concur--training-materials.aspx?csf=1&web=1&e=hSGQMR 

Planning Committee Refresher

6th 

 

Recording

Highways Transformation Programme Briefing

 

 

Hybrid - Cabinet Suite, Shire Hall

& Teams

20th 

14:00-16:00

Charlotte Green

Slides (PDF, 351.4 KB) 

Recording

Corporate Parenting Workshop

 

Teams

25th

10:00-11:30

Su Turner

Training description

Slides (PPTX, 879.7 KB)

Recording

 

August

 

 

-

-

-

-

 

September

 

 

Bystander Training 

 

Members Room - Shire Hall

18th

GRASAC

 

 

Will Wheatley

Blurb

Bystander Training

 

Members Room - Shire Hall

19th

CANCELLED

GRASAC

 

Will Wheatley

Blurb

'Fix My Street' New Highways Reporting System Briefing

Teams

27th

10:00-11:00pm

Charlotte Green

 

Rosie Kenyon

 Recording

 

'Fix My Street' New Highways Reporting System Briefing

Teams

28th

16:00-17:00pm

Charlotte Green

 

Rosie Kenyon

 

 

October

 

 

M5 J10 Development Update

Teams

5th 

Scott Macaulay-Lowe

Rosie Kenyon

Recording

Overview and Scrutiny Training

Teams

24th

10:00-12:00pm

South West Councils

Rosie Kenyon

N/A

 

November

 

 

Chairing Training

Teams

1st 

17:00-19:00pm

South West Councils

Sophie Benfield

N/A

Stress Management and Personal Resilience

Teams

21st 

10:00-12:00pm

 

Occupational Health

Rosie Kenyon

 

 

December

 

 

Introduction into Local Government Finance

Teams

13th 

14:00-16:00pm

Gareth Rees

Rosie Kenyon

Blurb

 

January

 

 

Concur Expense System Training

Teams

 4th

10:00-12:00pm

Grant Stevens

Rosie Kenyon 

 

Blurb

Concur Expense System Drop-in session

Member's Room - SHIRE HALL

18th

 

14:00-16:00pm

Grant Stevens

 

Rosie Kenyon

Blurb

Treasury Management Training Session

Teams

19th

10:00-12:00pm

Finance

 Blurb

Statement of Accounts Training

Teams

23rd

10:00-12:00pm

Finance

  Blurb

 

February

 

 

Engaging with the Media and using social media

19th

16:00-18:00pm

Adam Barnes

 

Understanding GCC's Committees

TBC

DSU

 

 

March

 

 

Engaging your Community and Public Speaking

TBC

Sean Bundy

 

 

April

 

 

Code of Conduct

TBC

Rob Ayliffe

 

 

May

 

 

Anti-Slavery Briefing

7th May

10:00-12:00pm

Hilary Agg

 

 

June

 

 

How to compare Gloucestershire with the rest of the Country

TBC

Darren Skinner & Rob Ayliffe

 

 

July

 

 

-

-

-

 

 

 

Other trainings
Topic When and who
IT workshops/resources  
Finance and Budgets  
Council Strategy briefing  
Pensions Board/Pensions Committee Regular training sessions prior to formal Committee meetings provided by the Head of Pensions
   

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