Member Training Programme: Term 2 – Winter 2023

Date, Time and Venue	Activity / content	Target audience	Lead Officer(s)
8 November 2023 14:00 – 15:00 Microsoft Teams	Race Equality in East Sussex: Current Picture and emerging challenges Participants will: Learn about the most up-to-date figures on where ethnic minority people live in the county, and their age and disability profiles, languages spoken and other characteristics; Learn more about current issues of racial inequalities and discrimination facing people from different ethnic backgrounds and the steps the council is taking in addressing those; Gain insight into Members’ roles in working with and for people from ethnic minority backgrounds; and Explore why language around ethnicity is changing and how to feel confident talking to and about people from diverse ethnicities.	All Members	Kaveri Sharma and Sarah Tighe-Ford
14 November 2023 10:00 – 11:00 And 17 November 2023 14:00 – 15:00 Microsoft Teams	ESCC Local Transport Plan 4 Draft Strategy Briefing Session East Sussex County Council have drafted a new Local Transport Plan (LTP) for the County embracing a collaborative development approach with Members Reference Group (a sub-group of the Place Scrutiny Committee), officers and local stakeholder representatives. With this being a statutory document, setting out the strategy and policy framework for transport, we want to engage with you to provide an overview of the plan prior to us consulting more widely with stakeholders and the public, which is proposed to commence from 27 November 2023. So please join the session, where we will be providing:- an overview of the strategy development process, an outline of the key aspects of the draft strategy, including approaches, draft policies and schemes, details of the supporting implementation plan, and the timetable of planned engagement with stakeholders and the public.	All Members	Lisa Simmonds
24 November 2023 10:00 – 11:00 In Person and Microsoft Teams	Treasury Management The training will provide members with a deeper understanding of Treasury Management and will cover the statutory framework that the council operates within, the financial, economic and risk environments that affects treasury management activities, and the impacts of these on the council’s treasury strategy and decisions. The objective is to enable members to effectively scrutinise the treasury management strategy and better understand treasury management performance reports.	Audit Committee and All Members	Haley Woollard
December 2023 Date and Time TBC In Person – Room TBC	Modern.Gov App Workshop This informal workshop will explore the functionality of accessing, annotating and bookmarking meeting papers within the Modern.Gov app. The workshop will be delivered by the Member Services team and will be available for a small number of Members. Places will be booked on a first come, first served basis. However other details will be available in the future if you are unable to attend the session planned for December. Please email Sophie Webb to book your place(sophie.webb@eastsussex.gov.uk).	All Members	Sophie Webb
Winter 2023 Date and Time TBC Microsoft Teams	Personal Safety for Members Description to follow.	All Members	Stuart McKeown
Available upon request	Social media training Bespoke 1-1/small group social media training sessions can be arranged with the ESCC Communications Team. Please contact Warwick Smith (Warwick.Smith@eastsussex.gov.uk) to discuss your requirements.	All Members	Warwick Smith

Please contact Hannah Matthews if you have any queries:

Email: hannah.matthew@eastsussex.gov.uk     Phone: 01273 335138