Cabinet Member Scrutiny Training
- Friday 9 June, 10.00am - 11.30am
- Zoom
- Contributors: Lisa Smart (Centre for Governance & Scrutiny)
To help Cabinet Members to develop and maintain a constructive relationship with scrutiny and how to ensure that the benefits of scrutiny are achieved through mutual understanding and co-operation and trust.
Objectives:
- Understanding the role of scrutiny as a core whole-council function
- How scrutiny adds value in supporting council performance
- Developing a positive relationship between scrutiny and Cabinet
- Scrutiny as a critical friend. The positive benefits of challenge and testing
- How scrutiny helps Cabinet Members to develop their policy and key decision-making
- Getting the maximum benefit from scrutiny for Cabinet Members
- Advising the scrutiny work programme
- The importance of visible democratic accountability
- Handling the scrutiny ‘politics’, behaviours and challenge
- Effective strategies to plan for scrutiny meetings
- Officer support for Cabinet at scrutiny meetings
- Sharing information and briefing scrutiny
- Facing scrutiny – questions – feedback – openness and risks