If you are an employer looking for a course for your employees, or an individual investing in your own personal development, we offer a diverse range of courses and pathways of study and development. All of our CPD courses are designed to reflect work-based practice, while also benefiting from the internationally significant research that is inherent in our strong academic knowledge base.
INLOGOV offers a wide range of events including Five day accredited short courses, One day seminars and In-authority training and inductions.
Seminar programme 2012
INLOGOV offers a range of topical seminars on campus, which can also be run in-house for one or a group of local authorities. More information about our Seminar programme.
- Date
- Thursday 27th June 2013
- Description
- This workshop is for councillors and officers who are committed to or considering a "return" to local authority decision-making by committees. INLOGOV has been studying these issues, and assisting councils, for more than 40 years. The co-convenors of this workshop both experienced the committee system and the transfer to cabinet governance. The workshop will be invaluable to those tasked with preparing briefing notes on these issues, but also provide an insight into the issues for councillors who want to understand what would be involved.
- Date
- Monday 1st July 2013
- Description
- Scrutiny has been endorsed in the Localism Bill and potentially it has much to contribute at times of financial crisis, but it is still a tender plant and above all it depends on good chairing. Chairing an overview and scrutiny committee, or any other overview and scrutiny event, requires very special skills. Whoever takes the chair should be involved in planning before the meeting, and needs to keep a firm hand on the wheel as it develops. This seminar will explore the skills and techniques needed to chair overview and scrutiny committees or panels.
- Date
- Thursday 4th July 2013
- Description
- One day seminar - This seminar is for those who want to develop the skills and the techniques involved in support for Overview and Scrutiny. It will provide training for those who are relatively newly appointed, but others, including Democratic Services Officers, Committee Services and Policy Officers, as well as more experienced scrutiny officers, will find it a useful means of refreshing and updating their skills.
Five day accredited short courses
The department has an exciting range of five day programmes to compliment and expand our existing portfolio. More information about our accredited short courses.
- Date
- Monday 23rd September - Tuesday 29th October 2013
- Description
- Accredited five day programme - This course has grown out of INLOGOV's longstanding experience of research and development programmes for officers, board members and politicians involved in strategic commissioning across a wide range of public service organisations. It examines the strengths and limitations of models of commissioning across levels of government, as well as in specific service sectors.
- Date
- Monday 30th September - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
- Description
- This three day programme works through the stages and techniques of the scrutiny process, and the ways in which it may be used both to hold executives to account and to develop policy. It may be used as an induction and training in the principles of good scrutiny for those who are new or relatively new to the topic (including an update on issues for scrutiny raised by new legislation and the Coalition's approach to local government). It will also assist those with experience of scrutiny to develop their skills and improve their practice.
- Date
- Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October 2013
- Description
- Accredited five day programme - Social care services for both adults and children and families face radical and sustained challenges. Accordingly, this one-week intensive residential programme has been designed to bring together commissioning and contracting staff from across the UK to develop and refine their knowledge and skills in partnership with academic staff and leading visiting speakers, including practitioners at the forefront of developments.
- Date
- Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th November 2013
- Description
- Accredited short course (accreditation is subject to University approval) - This programme is designed for those involved or interested in scrutiny in local government, but the material covered here, i.e. applied research techniques for policy analysts, is extremely relevant to policy analysts, or those aspiring to become policy analysts, interested in learning about practical research and information gathering techniques.
In-authority training and induction
INLOGOV is working with your council for better scrutiny by providing tailored training delivered locally to individual local authorities or groups of local authorities.