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We've teamed up with Open University Scotland to bring you materials that can help develop or improve your leadership skills. The free, online resources are aimed at managers and leaders in Scottish councils and cover leadership, people management, and change, transformation and innovation. These materials enable you to access everything you need to further develop your career opportunities and support your professional development.

Go to Developing Leadership Skills

Our induction materials for new and returning councillors provide information, support and guidance to help you be effective in your role.

As well as notebooks on your core roles and responsibilities, we have introductory guides on topics that you may have responsibility for, such as planning and climate change.

Take a look at our elected member induction materials.

Our Shaping Places for Wellbeing programme aims to improve Scotland’s wellbeing and reduce inequalities by changing collective approaches to the places we live, work and play. In this new blog series, Shaping our thinking, sharing our learning, we'll be evaluating the programme and sharing what we've learnt across key stages.

The first blog looks at current and future ambitions of the local project towns - Alloa, Ayr, Clydebank and Dunoon - asking 'what is the ambition of the town?'

Read 'Shaping our thinking, sharing our learning: current and future ambitions'.