County Jennifer Mein - Councillor for Lancashire

Councillor County Jennifer Mein

 Labour  Deputy Leader of the Opposition

Email: jennifer.mein@lancashire.gov.uk

Council: Lancashire

Council Profile: View on council website

Committees: Employment Committee Cabinet Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee Full Council Scrutiny Management Board Pension Fund Committee

Activity Timeline

Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.

42 meetings · Page 1 of 9

Cabinet

Cabinet - Thursday, 20th March, 2025 2.00 pm

March 20, 2025
Full Council

Extraordinary General Meeting, Full Council - Thursday, 13th March, 2025 4.30 pm

March 13, 2025
Full Council

Full Council - Thursday, 13th March, 2025 1.00 pm

March 13, 2025
Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee

Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday, 12th March, 2025 10.30 am

March 12, 2025
Cabinet

Cabinet - Thursday, 6th March, 2025 2.00 pm

March 06, 2025

Decisions from Meetings

95 decisions · Page 13 of 19

Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee - Joint Health Scrutiny

From: Scrutiny Management Board - Wednesday, 13th November, 2024 10.30 am - November 13, 2024

...to facilitate potential joint scrutiny of NHS proposals with Sefton Council, they agreed 'in principle' to establish a joint health scrutiny committee pending further review in December.

Recommendations Approved

Work Programmes 2024/25 and Actions and Assurances Update

From: Scrutiny Management Board - Wednesday, 13th November, 2024 10.30 am - November 13, 2024

...to agree the work programmes, note the activity update on the Political Governance Working Group, and note the actions and assurances outlined in Appendix 'F'.

Recommendations Approved

Budgeted Savings Tracker

From: Scrutiny Management Board - Wednesday, 13th November, 2024 10.30 am - November 13, 2024

...to note the savings tracker and progress with delivery of savings agreed by Full Council in the current and previous financial years, deciding that no further scrutiny of savings was required at this stage.

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

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

Summary

Meetings Attended: 42

Average per Month: 3.0

Decisions Recorded: 95