Issue - meetings

This report recommends giving elected members access to the Staff Warning Register and proposes certain arrangements to ensure that its privacy safeguards are properly maintained.  It also describes an extension of its scope to cover not only harm (and risk of harm) through violence, but alarm, harassment or distress (or the risk) through behaviour described in the recently approved Violence and Aggression Policy.

(i)                 That access to the Staff Warning Register be granted to all elected Members and suitable training be arranged.

(ii)               That use be made of a future pre-Council seminar to deliver the training.

Members received a report which recommended giving elected members access to the Staff Warning Register and proposed certain arrangements to ensure that its privacy safeguards were properly maintained.  It also described an extension of its scope to cover not only harm (and risk of harm) through violence, but alarm, harassment or distress (or the risk) through behaviour described in the recently approved Violence and Aggression Policy.

The report presented two options for consideration:

·  To grant Members access to the Staff Warning Register;

·  To refuse Members access to the Staff Warning Register.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i)                 That access to the Staff Warning Register be granted to all elected Members and suitable training be arranged.

(ii)               That use be made of a future pre-Council seminar to deliver the training.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:To improve the safety of Members.