Issue - meetings
Development of the Members Hub and Members Bulletin
Meeting: 30/01/2020 - Standards Advisory Committee (Item 3)
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Minutes:
Matthew Mannion, Head of Democratic Services and Patricia Attawia, PA to the Speaker and Councillor Support Team Manager, introduced a report providing the Committee with an update on work to develop the Member Hub and Member Bulletin.
They explained that the Hub had proven extremely valuable since it was launched for the May 2018 local elections and other Councils had also looked to copy the idea. However, it was important to continue to develop the website to keep it up to date and useful to Members. A number of ideas were being explored including:
· Bringing in more automatically, or quickly updating, content.
· How to link the Hub better with the Bulletin, the main council website and sites for partner organisations and the voluntary sector.
· Creation of surveys or other ways to explore what information Members find the most useful.
The Committee also noted that officers were looking to revamp the Member Bulletin email newsletter to bring it up to date, make it more useful and to link it better with the Hub.
Members welcomed the development work and highlighted how useful they found the Hub in particular. It was noted that, although the opening rates for the Bulletin were not that high, they were good compared to many email newsletters.
RESOLVED
1. That the report and update be noted.