Councillor County Jean Parr

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

Report of the Cabinet - Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Plan 2024-25

From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024

...to approve the Lancashire Child and Youth Justice Plan 2024-25 as presented in the report.

Recommendations Approved

Report of the Audit, Risk and Governance Committee - Amendment to the Treasury Management Strategy 2024/25

From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024

...to approve the amendment to the Treasury Management Strategy 2024/25 as presented in the report.

Recommendations Approved

Updates to the County Council's Constitution

From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024

...to approve updates to the County Council's Constitution, specifically the Procurement Rules, Committee Terms of Reference, Scheme of Delegation to Officers, and Full Council Terms of Reference, as well as noting other changes made since the Annual Meeting.

Recommendations Approved