What Do Councillors Do?
If you are elected as a Councillor you will have a number of challenging roles. These include representing the people of the ward you represent and serving on bodies both within and possibly outside the Council.
Like Members of Parliament, an equally important part of a local Councillor's work relates to that undertaken within his/her ward. As a ward Councillor, you are likely to be asked by your electorate to help them resolve problems and be responsible for promoting and representing your ward.
You may also have to deal with correspondence and face to face meetings with electors and receive and make telephone calls to discuss issues on behalf of your electors with Council Officers and other officials. The demands on Members locally often involves evenings and weekends.
All 34 Councillors will meet as the Council about six times during the year. The Council is responsible for setting the budget, the level of Council Tax, approving all new policies and changes to old ones.
Councillors are also appointed to serve on a wide range of Committees of the Council, Policy Panels and Working Groups and, possibly, to represent the Council on other outside bodies.
For a full list of Committees and Policy Panels etc. see:
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Subscribe to changes to this page here.Author: Eric Williams. Last Updated: 10/8/2006.
