Limited support for Telford and Wrekin
We do not currently provide detailed weekly summaries for Telford and Wrekin Council. Running the service is expensive, and we need to cover our costs.
You can still subscribe!
If you're a professional subscriber and need support for this council, get in touch with us at community@opencouncil.network and we can enable it for you.
If you're a resident, subscribe below and we'll start sending you updates when they're available. We're enabling councils rapidly across the UK in order of demand, so the more people who subscribe to your council, the sooner we'll be able to support it.
If you represent this council and would like to have it supported, please contact us at community@opencouncil.network.
Summary
The Governance Committee of Telford and Wrekin Council is scheduled to meet on Wednesday 8 October 2025. The meeting will cover updates on the Member Learning & Development Programme and national standards cases. Also included in the agenda is the confirmation of the minutes from the previous meeting.
Member Learning & Development Programme 2027-2031
The committee is scheduled to receive an update on the proposed plans for the Member Learning & Development Programme 2027-2031. The Public Reports Pack includes a report on this topic, which the committee is asked to review and comment on.
The report notes that the current Member Learning and Development Programme 2023-2027 was approved in March 2023, ahead of the May 2023 local elections. It is structured around four themes:
- Hit the ground running
- Operating as an effective Councillor
- Roles and responsibilities
- Continuing professional development
The Public Reports Pack states that the Member Learning and Development Programme 2027-2031 is expected to retain this structure, with enhancements to the induction process, digital delivery and engagement.
The report also proposes streamlining the initial induction process, focusing on conduct standards, probity rules, and quasi-judicial functions1. It is proposed that the two-day drop in event for essential registration is expanded to include Code of Conduct training for all members.
It is proposed that using a combination of the Councillor Connect portal and Ollie, the Council's e-learning platform, that recorded training sessions be uploaded to watch online and interactive training modules be developed for Members to complete individually.
Public Reports Pack
The committee is also asked to agree to the creation of a working group to review the Member Learning & Development Programme and make recommendations to the Governance Committee based on their findings.
National Cases Update
The committee is scheduled to receive a verbal update on national standards cases. The minutes of the previous meeting on 15 July 2025 record that the committee received an overview of recent cases that had occurred nationally. These included a case in Southampton where a councillor made derogatory comments about the Chief Executive Officer to the Returning Officer, and an incident in the Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk where a councillor requested that another councillor refuse a planning application.
-
Quasi-judicial functions are actions of an agency, board, or other government entity in which there are characteristics of both judicial and legislative action. ↩
Attendees
Topics
No topics have been identified for this meeting yet.