Issue - meetings

Report from Councillor Rafiq, Cabinet Member Corporate Services and HR is attached.

Following consideration at a meeting of the Human Resource and Appeals Panel prior to Cabinet, the Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR, presented a reported which provided details of a proposal to establish additional corporate capacity within the organisation.

Councillor Rafiq, Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs reported that the Council and CCG agreed an integrated structure for the two organisations in January 2020, including an intention to include transformation capacity. This report sets out an update on recruitment to the agreed structure including leadership of the transformation programme.

The Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR reported that as the proposals constitute a change to the Council staffing establishment, a period of formal consultation will take place in accordance with the Council’s agreed policy and procedures.

Delegated decision:

Cabinet agreed to endorse the recommendations as a basis to undertake a formal consultation exercise:

·         One of the two Deputy Chief Finance Officer posts is reconfigured into Director Financial Transformation and Deputy Chief Finance Officer at Chief Officer Band H, for which additional costs will be met from transformation funding.

·         A Programme Manager is appointed at Chief Officer Band A with responsibility for the governance of the overall transformation programme.

·         Members thank Karen Dolton for her service to Bury Council and recruitment to the post of Executive Director Children and Young People is approved to commence immediately.

·         That the post of Assistant Director Education be deleted and replaced by a post of Director of Education with recruitment to commence on the appointment of the Executive Director Children and Young People.

·         To approve the long term secondment of an officer, with a remit to lead the implementation of the neighbourhood model including continuation of

·         Community Hubs.

·         A new post of Assistant Director Public Service Reform at Chief Officer Band D is established and recruitment begins as a matter of urgency.

·         A new post of Executive Policy and Research Advisor is established.

Reasons for the decision:

The proposals in this report consolidate the Council’s high quality emergency response to date; provide the capacity to maintain the statutory functions and maintain momentum for reform in the context of agreed transformation ambitions and the Bury 2030 strategy.

Other option considered and rejected:

To reject the recommendations.