Purpose

Utilising additional permanent funding that has been made available, to implement various changes to the Human Resources (Workforce Development) staffing structure, aimed at increasing capacity within the service to support the delivery of the Workforce Sufficiency Strategy.

Decision

To support the continued, effective delivery of the Council’s Workforce Sufficiency Strategy, the Assistant Executive Director (Corporate Support) is recommended to approve the recommendations set out in section 2 of this report.

Alternative options considered

There is no capacity to fulfil this work using existing HR staffing resources, little or no opportunity to undertake the work, collaboratively, using other local authority resources and due to the long-term, strategic nature of the work, no realistic prospect of wholly temporary resources (i.e., temporary/interim/agency cover) being used to undertake the work in question. Additional capacity is required, and this has been recognised and agreed to during the service and budget setting process.