Issue - meetings

This report provides details of the progress made to address the outstanding staffing matters relating to the shared service between City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council for internal audit, counter fraud and information governance services.  

RESOLVED: (i)         That the action taken to address the remaining staffing implications associated with the shared service be endorsed.

REASON:      To ensure that, where possible, all the outstanding staffing related matters are resolved before the date of transfer to the shared service company.

                        (ii)        That the Director of Resources, in consultation with the Executive Member for Corporate Services (both being Directors of the shared service company) ensure a satisfactory resolution to any remaining staffing matters mentioned in the report after 1 April 2009.

REASON:      To ensure that any matters mentioned in the report still outstanding as at 31^st March are satisfactorily resolved.

Members considered a report which provided details of the progress made to address the outstanding staffing matters relating to the shared service between City of York Council (CYC) and North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) for internal audit, counter fraud and information governance services.

The report had been requested by Members following consideration of the final Business Case for the shared service at the Executive meeting on 20 January 2009.  In response to questions raised by Unison at that meeting, it was reported that:

• To demonstrate compliance with the Teckal principles, the provision of services to external customers would be limited to 10% of the shared service company’s total activities.
• Individual staff consultation meetings had been held with all staff on the implications of the transfer and now new issues had arisen from these.
• Details of the new job grades would be shared with staff and unions in the week commencing 1 March 2009.
• Work was ongoing to ensure that new HR policies and guidance for the company were finalised by 31 March 2009.

With reference to paragraph 10 of the report, Officers reported at the meeting that there had been a delay in sharing details of the new grades with staff but that this would be dealt with by the beginning of next week.

Having noted the comments of the Shadow Executive on this item, it was

RESOLVED: (i)         That the action taken to address the remaining staffing implications associated with the shared service be endorsed.

REASON:      To ensure that, where possible, all the outstanding staffing related matters are resolved before the date of transfer to the shared service company.

                        (ii)        That the Director of Resources, in consultation with the Executive Member for Corporate Services (both being Directors of the shared service company) ensure a satisfactory resolution to any remaining staffing matters mentioned in the report after 1 April 2009. ¹

REASON:      To ensure that any matters mentioned in the report still outstanding as at 31^st March are satisfactorily resolved.