Meeting documents

SCC Human Resources Committee
Tuesday, 13th December, 2022 2.00 pm

Venue: Luttrell Room - County Hall, Taunton. View directions

Contact: Neil Milne on 01823 359045 or Email: ndmilne@somerset.gov.uk  or Sarah Wright (Democratic Service Officer) on 01823 356151 or Email: sarah.wright@somerset.gov.uk

Note: PLEASE NOTE: The deadline to register to speak at this meeting is 5.00pm on Thursday 8 December 

Items
No. Item

1.

Declarations of Interest

Details of all Members’ interests in District, Town and Parish Councils can be viewed on the Council Website at

County Councillors membership of Town, City, Parish or District Councils and this will be displayed in the meeting room (Where relevant).

 

The Statutory Register of Member’s Interests can be inspected via request to the Democratic Service Team.

 

Minutes:

a)      Cllr Leyshon and Cllr Kendall declared a personal interest as members of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

b)      Cllr Dingwall declared that in relation to item 5 LGR HR Policies for Approval - Parental Bereavement Leave, he has raised a significant amount of money for charity fundraising.

 

2.

Minutes from the previous meeting on 17 November 2022 pdf icon PDF 272 KB

The Committee is asked to confirm the minutes are accurate.

Minutes:

The minutes were approved as a true and accurate record.

 

3.

Public Question Time

The Chair will allow members of the public to present a petition on any matter within the Committee’s remit. Questions or statements about any matter on the agenda for this meeting will be taken at the time when each matter is considered.

Minutes:

There were no public questions, statements, or petitions.

 

4.

LGR HR Policies for approval pdf icon PDF 50 KB

-       Policies to be considered to follow:

o   Parental Bereavement Leave

o   Fostering

o   Disclosure

o   Recruitment of Ex-Offenders

o   Flexible Working Requests

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed the Director of Customers, Digital and Workforce – Chris Squire to the meeting and thanked him for his attendance at this busy time. The Officer introduced HR Policy and Projects Service Manager – Sarah Welland who highlighted the following:

-       Summary table (appendix 1) with two categories  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

5.

Local Government Reorganisation - People Workstream update

-       To consider the presentation on the day

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed the Director of Customers, Digital and Workforce – Chris Squire to the meeting and thanked him for his attendance at this busy time. The Officer introduced HR Policy and Projects Service Manager – Sarah Welland who highlighted the following:

-       Summary table (appendix 1) with two categories  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.

6.

Any other urgent items of business

The Chair may raise any items of urgent business.

Minutes:

There were no items of urgent business.

 

All Councillors wished to record thanks to all staff in their commitment to the additional work of LGR.