The Democracy Support Officer (DSO) presented the Member Development Programme and provided an update on the feedback received at the previous meeting.

Key updates included:

Hybrid sessions

Taking on the feedback of the previous session that it would be beneficial to have more training sessions held hybrid, the DSO explained that Democratic Services were working with officers to determine where practically they can change their session to be held in a hybrid format instead. Cllr. Bob Waterton informed Members of audio and visual difficulties experienced with the Meeting Owl during the Climate Change Masterclass and this was noted by the DSO.

Updates to the Induction Programme

The DSO explained that greater detail was added to the Induction Programme to make key information clearer, with hybrid sessions, cancelled or rescheduled sessions and new sessions each highlighted a different colour. Reasons for cancelled sessions were also added to the programme.

iLearn Update

The DSO reminded Members that 22 modules are available to complete on iLearn and that two of these modules are mandatory:

1.    Safeguarding (Bronze Level) Children, Young People & Adults.

2.    GDPR.

Members discussed the importance of completing the mandatory modules and agreed to encourage their group members to complete these modules as soon as possible.