Member Development
ECC Development Sessions
- You can find details of the 2026 Member Briefing Schedule here. The timetable is subject to change, but an up to date version will always be available on this portal.
- Members are asked to indicate which sessions they will be attending by responding 'going' to the calendar invites which are sent from the Democratic Services account.
Forms and Key Documents
- Read the Member Development Strategy (PDF)
- Member Development Steering Group Terms of Reference
- Complete the Member Development Nomination Form before arranging external conferences, courses or seminars
- Complete the external Member Development Evaluation Form after you have attended a development event.
Development Support
- Mentoring can be made available through your political group or by contacting democratic.services@essex.gov.uk
- Members are asked to complete a Personal Development Plan questionnaire. Skills training will be scheduled following the Personal Development Planning process. If you need help with a skill-based need contact democratic.services@essex.gov.uk
- Some Members who attend training sessions are able to log Continued Professional Development (CPD) points when attending Member Development Sessions for their professional roles outside of the Council.
- Personal Development Planning Questionnaire
Resources
- Local Government Association Guidance and Resources
- The Political Skills Framework - a councillors toolkit
- New Councillor Hub
E-Learning
To access ECC e learning modules you will need to use an ECC laptop at present:
- Follow this link and click on the link to ‘My Learning’
- Either search for content on any topic in the search box or look at some of the suggested topics (the ‘member development playlist’ is a good starting point)
- For detailed instructions enter ‘introduction to my learning’ in the search box - this will offer a series of instructional videos.
Recordings of Induction and briefing sessions 2021 - 2025
- These can be found under 'files' in Teams here (you need to be logged in to Microsoft Office with your ECC account to access these)
ECC Member Development Presentations 2024-26
- Boundary Review
- Business Intermediary Forum
- Children's Social Care and Adult's Social Care
- Children's Services Update
- Climate Action Buildings
- Climate Action: Green Growth
- Climate Action - Sustainable Transport
- Communications and Community Engagement on Climate Change
- Cyber, Standards and recent legislation
- CQC (links to a Teams file)
- Devolution (August 2023)
- Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation 2025
- Early years childcare reforms
- Essex Children and Families Wellbeing Service 2025
- Essex Permit Scheme (Highways)
- EV Charging Points 2026
- Flood Board Training
- Highways Buddy Scheme
- Highways and Planning
- Highways: LHPs and Chairman's Panel
- Highways: Member Initiative
- Local Nature Recovery Strategy
- Locality Fund and Local Community Fund 2025/26
- Minerals Local Plan review
- My Care Record
- Overnight Short Breaks
- Planning Reforms
- Public Health
- Public Sector Equality Duty
- Recycling Centre Bookings Consultation 2024
- Ride London 2024
- School Place Plans - Mid Essex
- School Place Plans - South Essex
- Scrutiny Effectiveness and Improvement
- SEND Provision
- Transport Strategy
- Water Strategy
If you have any issues accessing any of the above documents, or require additional support in accessing them, please contact the Democracy Team at: