Training is given for committee conveners

Members of North Lanarkshire Council's SNP group have poured scorn on new training that is being given to council committee conveners.

- ROSS THOMSON

The SNP claim that the training follows “multiple instances of conveners losing control of meetings under basic scrutiny as well as taking decisions which contravene the rules which govern the local authority

In addition, a video is now being shown on loop within council settings, which has been introduced under the claim of “supporting all committee members in understanding remit and standing orders”.

However, the Nationalists state this is not a routine support measure, but “a targeted move by council officers to urgently address the ongoing failings of administration conveners”.

SNP group leader, Councillor Tracy Carragher, said: "This training is a last-ditch attempt to paper over years of failure.