Committee Meeting Training (Apr)

This new course has been developed by Jake Atkinson.  Jake managed committees at a District council before he took over as Chief Executive at Leicestershire and Rutland ALC, and knows the system inside out, including the challenges they present to parish and town councils.

Does your council spend unnecessary time “ratifying” and discussing decisions already made by its committees? Is there a lack of clarity as to what powers each of your committees have been delegated (e.g., have decisions been made which council feel weren’t within the committee’s remit), are some of your committees run behind closed doors?  Can neighbourhood plan steering groups spend money?  Do you allow councillors not on a specific committee to remain in the room when you remove the public for a confidential item?  Do you know that the law differs between committees and sub-committees (i.e. different rules apply)?  Do your committees know that they cannot…