Running the City

The Councillors Role

The City is divided into 15 electoral wards, each one providing two or three councillors.

Worcester City Councillor Information

The Cabinet

The over riding duty of councillors is to the whole community, but they have a special duty to their ward constituents, including those who did not vote for them.

The current makeup of the Council is;-

Conservative 17

Labour 13

Liberal Democrat 3

Association of Independents 2

All Councillors meet to decide the Council’s overall policies and set the budget each year. The Council elects the Leader of the Council and a Cabinet (from the majority political group) annually. While the full Council of 35 councillors is responsible for setting the overall budget, council tax levels and agreeing overall policy, the Cabinet has the executive authority to make the majority of decisions and to ensure its priorities are delivered.

Developing Our Councillors

We are committed to ensuring that all of our councillors are able to receive the training and development they need to carry out their roles. We recognise that continuous development for councillors is a key attribute of a successful organisation and each councillor can complete an annual development plan with our Training Officer. These development plans are used along with our Corporate Plan and other statutory or service needs to produce an annual training plan in June for all councillors. The delivery of this training plan is overseen by our Member Training Champion, Councillor Lucy Hodgson, a councillor level Training and Development Panel and our Training Officer.

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