Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance (copy enclosed).

The Council considered the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance on proposed criteria to fairly manage individual Member training approaches, and a process for how this would be managed at Officer level.

The report described the process to date for the delivery of a range of Member training, with the Leader of the Council playing a central role in the assessment of need and relevance for allocation of the budget for this training.

Discussion ensued as to the preferred direction for this, with the suggestion that a Member Development Strategy was required and also that the Member Training Working Group should be used to greater effect.  The Leader of the Council said she was happy to see matters worked through this Working Group or Panel and if the Council agreed then this report could effectively be withdrawn.  This was duly agreed by the Council.

RESOLVED that the proposal the subject of this report be withdrawn and that the assessment and process for Member development and training be pursued through the Member Training Working Group.