Issue - meetings

In the absence of the Head of Human Resources the Director of Corporate Resources presented a report setting out the Committee’s role in the scrutinising process on the Employee Engagement Improvement Action Plan.

The following updates in relation to the themes were noted:

·         Theme 1 - Workshops had been held with staff and Members

·         Theme 2 - The last session with Francis Strickland, consultant, and the Management Team had been held this week in preparation for the arrival of the new Chief Executive.  It had been agreed to ask the new CEO if she would like to hold a final session which involved her too.

·         Theme 3 - Management Team had discussed the action plan to improve internal communications.  Further discussion on this issue was being held during the following week.

·         Theme 4 – see the report for item 10 on the agenda for this meeting.

·         Theme 5 – JPAR docments for staff had been updated.  A working group was working on an action plan and it is intended that the JPAR procedure will be audited robustly, including ensuring that learning and development requests are taken forward.  Staff will be made aware of all changes to the procedure.

·         Theme 6 – updating of the disciplinary procedure will be done when the changes to the JPAR process have been finalised.

·         Theme 7 – Workshops are being developed to improve skills of managers based on the competency framework

·         Theme 8 – The Head of Human Resources is in the process of progressing work on the Well Being at Work policy.  The Director of Corporate Resources was checking to see if the policy needed to be reported to the Authority meeting.

·         Theme 9 – no update

·         Theme 10 – Darren Butler had been appointed as the new Head of Information Management.  Progress was being made on moving forward with development of the revised Strategy.

RESOLVED

That work to progress on the Employee Engagement Improvement Action Plan is endorsed.