Councillor County Charles Edwards
Email: charles.edwards@lancashire.gov.uk
Council: Lancashire
Council Profile: View on council website
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Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
27 meetings · Page 1 of 6
Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 27th March, 2025 10.30 am
This meeting has been cancelled.
Audit, Risk and Governance Committee - Monday, 24th March, 2025 2.00 pm
Extraordinary General Meeting, Full Council - Thursday, 13th March, 2025 4.30 pm
Decisions from Meetings
142 decisions · Page 21 of 29
Work Programme 2024/25
From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024
...to approve the recommendations for the 2024/25 work programme.
Recommendations Approved
Minutes of the Meeting Held on 26 September 2024
From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024
Recommendations Approved
Workforce Matters
From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024
Oversight to cover areas of priority for 2024/25: • Continued focus on absence & productivity and data and metrics • Improve senior leadership resilience through succession planning • Improve manager capability through targeted development interventions • Support the organisation to change and redesign itself to support financial resilience - (HR, Absenteeism Recruitment and Performance Management) Organisational resilience – benchmarking Areas of consideration by CCCS Scrutiny from- • Deep-dive into sickness absence and our response • Deep-dive into recruitment and retention and workforce planning • Workforce demographics by service area and the risks/opportunities it presents Key questions / issues: • How is the council benchmarked r.e. performance management, hard-to-fill roles and sickness absence levels? • What are the hard-to-fill roles and what is officers' view on why the council is not attracting people to these roles? What do think tanks or external organisations suggest? • How is the council progressing against the Workforce Equality Strategy, and what areas are there for further research and improvement?
Recommendations Approved
Lancashire County Pension Fund Annual Report Year Ending 31 March 2024
From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024
...to note the performance and state of the Lancashire County Pension Fund and its investment activities for the year ending 31 March 2024, as detailed in the presented report.
Recommendations Approved
The Employment Committee
From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024
...to note the report of the Employment Committee from its meetings on 18 July 2024 and 10 September 2024.
Recommendations Approved
Summary
Meetings Attended: 27
Average per Month: 1.9
Decisions Recorded: 142