Decision Maker: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: October 31, 2024

Purpose: Oversight to cover areas of priority for 2024/25: • Continued focus on absence & productivity and data and metrics • Improve senior leadership resilience through succession planning • Improve manager capability through targeted development interventions • Support the organisation to change and redesign itself to support financial resilience - (HR, Absenteeism Recruitment and Performance Management) Organisational resilience – benchmarking Areas of consideration by CCCS Scrutiny from- • Deep-dive into sickness absence and our response • Deep-dive into recruitment and retention and workforce planning • Workforce demographics by service area and the risks/opportunities it presents Key questions / issues: • How is the council benchmarked r.e. performance management, hard-to-fill roles and sickness absence levels? • What are the hard-to-fill roles and what is officers' view on why the council is not attracting people to these roles? What do think tanks or external organisations suggest? • How is the council progressing against the Workforce Equality Strategy, and what areas are there for further research and improvement?

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