Agenda item

Cllr Judi Billing and Pascoe Sawyers introduced the report, which outlined the political and managerial leadership sector-led improvement offer for 2015/16 and the take-up from bookings to date. They provided members with a print-out of some updated statistics that showed a surge in participation in leadership programmes for 2015 and also a surge in participation for certain political parties.

Pascoe Sawyers suggested that this surge may be due to better targeting and marketing of the LGA’s Leadership Offer, as well as closer working arrangements with Principal Advisors. He also noted that there has been an increase in e-learning.

Members discussed the importance of engaging young people in the leadership programmes, and therefore of assessing the demographic breakdown of participants in the various programmes. They also sought data on the long-term impacts of participation in the leadership programmes.

Action

Officers will feed back further information to the Board on council engagement in the various leadership programmes, and consider how best to gather longitudinal impact data showing the long-term outcomes of participation.

Decision

Members noted the report and agreed the proposed Leadership Academy tender process as set out in paragraph 16 of the report.