Decision details

The Director of Human Resources provided Members with his report which detailed the Human Resource departments operations over the last twelve months.  The Director provided an overview  of the work of the Employment, Education And Training Team (Eet), Health & Safety Team, People Development, Workforce Planning and Development, Equality, Diversity & Armed Forces, the Occupational Health and Wellbeing team and the Employee Relations Team. 

Members were provided with details of the Councils successful apprenticeship scheme and graduate programme, along with the Care2Work Programme. Details of the training courses provided to staff and Elected Member training were also referenced.

The process of reporting Sickness Dashboard information to the Senior Leadership Team and information relating to the work with the  Armed Forces Covenant were also provided to Members.

The Deputy Leader commended the work of the department and spoke of the awards achieved in respect of the Armed Forces covenant, the national award for the Apprenticeship scheme and also commented that sickness and absenteeism were being reported to Scrutiny.

It was RESOLVED:

1.            To note the information contained within the report.