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I accept cookies from this site. Skip to content Skip to search Skip to navigation. My Account. If younger people are effectively being excluded from serving as local councillors, then their views are much less likely to be represented in the important policy debates which local councillors take part in.
Given that the public as a whole is woefully disengaged from participating in local elections, it is likely that people would be more inclined to participate if they felt that local politicians are in some way similar to them, rather than representing some kind of local elite. Thirdly, the underrepresentation of young people among local councillors means that both local councils and political parties for whom local councillors are an important source of potential candidates to become MPs in the future miss out on the energy, new ideas and diversity of perspectives which involving younger people in local decision-making could bring to them.
So what are the barriers which prevent younger people from becoming local councillors in the first place? However, research has shown that this system creates big inequalities between individual councillors and councillors serving on different councils, and because these allowances usually have to be claimed by the councillors themselves, many are supposedly reluctant to do so for fear of receiving negative media coverage.
At present, most local councillors are rewarded as though councillors are just volunteers, when in reality it is more like a part-time job or even a full-time job for some of them ; the LGA census showed that the average councillor does 22 hours of work per week related to their council duties.
On one level, this is perfectly understandable in the context of widespread hostility towards the political class among the electorate, but it does also demonstrate that one of the problems with not paying political representatives properly is that the ability to become a politician is limited to people who have independent financial means. You can complain directly to the Ombudsman at any time, but usually after you have completed your local council's complaints procedure.
You can make a formal complaint in writing, by email, by fax and online. You can also contact the Ombudsman by freephone to ask for advice before submitting a complaint. Councillors must follow certain rules that set out how they should behave and the standards they should keep to. This is called a code of conduct. Read the code of conduct for councillors.
If you have a complaint about a councillor or feel that they have acted outside the code of conduct, you can contact the Northern Ireland Ombudsman. You can also contact the Ombudsman to ask for advice before submitting a complaint. The purpose of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland is to provide an independent review of the boundaries and names of the 11 local government districts in Northern Ireland, and the number, boundaries and names of the wards into which each local government district is divided.
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