Associate: Susan Dungworth - susan.d@frontlineconsulting.co.uk

Susan is an IDeA regional lead peer and has worked on CPA inspections for the Audit Commission. Her work with the IDeA has included member development, reviews, top team development and mentoring of individuals and political groups. She also is an Associate with the Centre for Public Scrutiny.

Susan was a councillor on Blyth Valley Borough Council for 12 years. In that time she chaired the overview and scrutiny management board, the arts and leisure trust and the community assembly and was vice-chair of the housing services committee and the economic and community services committee.

Her background is in local government, as a youth worker and social worker and her particular interests are member development, scrutiny, community involvement and training on the role of a frontline councillor. Susan is keen to recruit more women into local government and to challenge the ways in which councils work in order to ensure that there is more diversity within groups.

Director: Ann Reeder | Associates: Anthea Cox | Susan Dungworth | Helen Findlay | Ann John