Local Government Association

This is a brief introductory guide to social media accessibility for councillors. The advice is not specific to any social media platform.

This is an introductory guide for councillors on how to use YouTube. The guide provides advice and guidance on how to get started, what kinds of videos work, how to create them and ways of dealing with comments from the public.

This is an introductory guide for councillors on how to use Twitter. It provides advice and guidance on how to use it, ways to achieve greater engagement with residents in your local area, and how to stay safe and secure.

This is an introductory guide for councillors on how to use Instagram. It provides advice on how to get started, the different ways to use it, how to engage effectively with residents and ways to keep yourself safe and secure.

This is an introductory guide for councillors on how to use Facebook. The guide provides advice and guidance on getting started, the different ways to use it, ideas to strengthen your engagement and how to stay safe and secure.

This is an introductory guide for councillors about how to create social media content. It also briefly sets out how councillors can positively engage with other people, and organisations, on social media.

Resources to support local areas’ roles and responsibilities in keeping people safe.

We know councils across the country are currently receiving calls for changes to the names of estates and streets and the removal of statues - alongside objections to such proposals.