Herewith my contribution to the CILIP Governance Review which I have also
posted to the review team
CILIP Council
A council comprising 56 individuals and meeting 3 or 4 times a year is
clearly not fit for purpose as CILIP’s governing body.
The Council needs to be reduced in size to 16 people comprising the 4
nationally elected Honorary Officers (President, President Elect, Immediate
Past President and Treasurer) and 12 nationally elected Councillors all of
whom must be trained to operate as Trustees and Non Executive Directors.
The Council should meet 6 times each year to decide on matters of policy
and resource allocation and the overall management of CILIP including
scrutiny of the work of its various committees and the performance of the
Chief Executive and the secretariat.
The Councillors must be supported by the provision of timely and
financially rigorous management information by the Chief Executive and the
secretariat.
The Council must be accountable to the membership and report regularly on
council business, what the current issues are and what is happening.
The minutes of all Council and all Committees meetings must be posted on
the CILIP website within one month of the meeting being held.
In addition the attendance and voting records of all Councillors must be
available to members via the CILIP website and should also be enclosed with
manifestos when Councillors are seeking re-election.
Committees
The existing Executive Board and Policy Development Committee functions
should be subsumed into the new Council.
An Audit and Governance Committee should be formed
A new Professional Development and Practice Committee should be formed and
the functions of the 2 previously separate Professional Development and
Professional Practice committees subsumed into it with the exception of the
performance monitoring and development of Branches and Groups functions
which should transfer to the Audit and Governance Committee.
The Enterprise Board should function as before with the representative of
the new CILIP Council on it acting as Non Executive Directors.
Malcolm K Weston
URS Corporation Ltd
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telephone: 01234 349641
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