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Local Leadership Academy (LoLA) councillor workbooks

These workbooks provide a series of distance learning materials aimed at helping all councillors in their ward roles of community leaders and advocates. They cover a broad range of generic skills as well as specific issues and service and or policy areas and their impact at ward level. As such the workbooks will be particularly useful to new councillors.

Each workbook has been designed as a standalone unit that should take two to three hours to complete. They can be used by individual councillors as part of their own personal development, or they can be used with groups of councillors as part of a wider development programme.

The workbooks are provided free of charge as PDF downloads for use by councils and councillors to meet their member development needs. It is acknowledged that some of the workbooks will be of interest to other users – that is, other public sector and voluntary sector bodies – and they are free to use the workbooks in their existing format for their own in-house training purposes. 

Note: the workbooks should not be used for commercial purposes, nor amended or adapted in any way without the express agreement of the LG Improvement and Development. 

The workbooks

    1 Chairing skills (PDF, 24 pages, 334KB)
    2 The effective ward councillor (PDF, 20 pages, 1.3MB large file)
    3 Handling casework (PDF, 23 pages, 260KB)
    4 Influencing skills (PDF, 22 pages, 355KB)
    5 Providing Gypsy and Traveller sites (PDF, 19 pages, 361KB)
    6 Introduction to planning (PDF, 23 pages, 463KB)
    7 Media and communications (PDF, 24 pages, 343KB)
    8 Neighbourhood and community engagement: (PDF, 19 pages, 349KB)
    9 Performance management (PDF, 22 pages, 387KB)
    11 Scrutiny of finance (PDF, 20 pages, 1.8MB large file)
    12 Ethical governance – ethics and probity (PDF, 40 pages, 3.2MB large file)
    13 Facilitation and confilct resolution (PDF, 24 pages, 5.2MB large file)
    14 Effective member and officer relations (PDF, 24 pages, 5.4MB large file)
    15 Supporting constituents with complex Issues (PDF, 28 pages, 1.6MB large file)
    16 Culture and sport councillor workbook (PDF, 24 pages, 1.1MB large file)
    17 Working with town and parish councils: Lola councillor workbook (PDF, 22 pages, 897KB)
    18 Community leadership (PDF, 18 pages, 725KB)
    19 Equalities and councillors (PDF, 27 pages, 1.6MB large file)
    20 Community safety (PDF, 26 pages, 1.2MB large file)
    21 Introduction to business planning and strategic management (PDF, 18 pages, 1.7MB file)
    22 Joining the chain gang: preparing for the role of civic mayor (PDF, 32 pages, 3.0MB large file)

    Further information

    Contact:

    Chas Leslie
    email: chas.leslie@local.gov.uk


    Page updated August 2010.

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