The LRIP Member Development Programme is all about developing members’ skills and who better to learn from than each other.
So in this section a number of experienced councillors from across the Partnership give you the benefit of their time in office with a range of anecdotes and helpful advice on some key topics.
Their advice is in the form of video clips so we recommend you view the videos when using a broadband connection. For each topic, a text file is available to read if you can’t access the video clips.
Well I think I expected I could go in to the council offices, and people would do as I asked but it doesn’t work out like that.
I think when you first you believe that you can achieve everything and that you can do everything, and I think one of things that you have to remember when you first get elected is that you can’t please everybody and you can’t do everything.
A new councillor can expect to be very confused and very bewildered for perhaps three months or so and must speak out and say I don’t understand.
I think one of the biggest shocks a new member has actually the amount of work involved.
It’s a much broader and much wider role than I think what I first envisaged it would be.
Click on the links below to watch the videos: