Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Corporate Director (Services) seeking endorsement of the 2018/19 Business Plans for the Shared Services. 

(Executive Councillor: Cllr D Brown)

  i.  Approves the Business Plans for each of the Shared Services for Building Control, ICT and Legal Services, as attached as Appendix 1 of the submitted exempt report; and

  ii.  Delegates authority to the Shared Service Management Board to agree final amendments to the Business Plans in line with comments received from all three individual partner Councils.

The Cabinet considered an exempt report (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) by the Corporate Director, Services, regarding the revised Business Plans for the 3C Shared Services.

When the partnership arrangement between Huntingdonshire District Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council for the shared service arrangement of ICT, Legal Services and Building Control was established in July 2015, the Business Plans for the three shared services were also agreed. 

Since then each shared service had been working to review staffing structures, working practices and overall service provision in order to deliver the desired outcomes of the shared service partnership.  A key objective for each of the services had been the development of a set of forward-looking Business Plans that established key priorities, objectives, activities and measures of success for each service.  It was therefore recommended that the revised Business Plans were endorsed to enable the Shared Services to work to an agreed direction and deliver against a set of objectives.

At 7.08pm Cllr Cawley entered the meeting.

Having considered the comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Performance and Customers) and discussed the matter, the Cabinet,

RESOLVED

  i.  to approve the Business Plans for each of the Shared Services for Building Control, ICT and Legal Services, as attached as Appendix 1 of the submitted exempt report; and

  ii.  delegate authority to the Shared Service Management Board to agree final amendments to the Business Plans in line with comments received from all three individual partner Councils.

The Panel are to receive the Shared Services’ 2018/19 Business Plans.

Consideration was given to a report by the Corporate Director – Services regarding the Shared Services’ 2018/19 Business Plans. The Corporate Director – Services, Head of Legal, the Principle Property Lawyer and the Building Control Strategic Lead were in attendance and introduced each of the services’ business plans.

Members discussed the business plans and made a number of comments on them which have been forwarded on to Cabinet for their consideration.

(At 7.59pm, during the consideration of this item, Councillor M F Shellens left the meeting and did not return.)