Dave is a dedicated scrutiny practitioner with ten years’ experience as manager of Swansea Council’s scrutiny team. He has been based in West Sussex since 2017 working as an independent consultant. An associate with the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny, Dave has provided numerous training and support sessions for scrutiny councillors for more than 30 different councils across England and Wales and hosted workshops at Centre for Governance and Scrutiny and Association of Democratic Services Officers annual conferences. As a Tpas associate Dave also provides training, support and research for tenant scrutineers.

Dave has been BRIEF trained in solution focussed techniques and has expertise in public governance; particularly local government scrutiny, partnership working and public participation. He has a PhD in local politics and is an Associate of the Institute of Local Government Studies and an Honorary Research Fellow with Swansea University.

Please get in touch with Dave via the contact page.

On LinkedIn here.

And on Bluesky: @drdavemckenna.bsky.social