Publications

In this workbook you will encounter a number of features designed to help you think about the issues surrounding the development of neighbourhood and community engagement.

The workbook is designed to prompt reflection, insight and to identify actions to improve practice and support your work in adapting your approach to population health and the council’s public health resource in the context of COVID-19.

Councillors are uniquely placed to develop strategies, shape thinking and take an active lead locally because they have been democratically elected to represent the interests of the people and the council.

Councils have a crucial role to play in achieving the UK’s 2050 Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions target. We have produced this workbook to support councillors to strive for net zero locally.

This workbook is aimed at helping councillors to understand the signs of stress and to develop strategies to deal with it, as well as building up their own personal resilience in the role.

Increasingly councils are having to make difficult decisions about which services it provides to its communities. Against a background of changing priorities, as well as the search for new and collaborative ways of working for both front line and back office services, these decisions will require difficult choices in many cases.

This workbook considers the way local councils receive their funding and highlights both the legal and best practice requirements in managing your council’s financial affairs.

This workbook should serve as a useful reminder of some of the key skills, approaches and tactics that make for good influencing skills.

Dealing with the people in your community, understanding the issues and concerns they face, and being equipped with the skills, confidence and ability to take action in response to their queries, is an important and valued role for any councillor. The problems and issues local people raise with you are often referred to as ‘casework’.

This workbook has been designed as a learning aid for councillors to assist them with the effective engagement of young people and the organisations representing them within their ward.