This meeting was scheduled to discuss the recruitment process for a new Assistant Director of Strategic Support at Sefton Council. The meeting was also due to be held in private, meaning that members of the public would not be allowed to observe the discussion.

Recruitment to the post of Assistant Director Strategic Support

The committee were scheduled to consider a report on the recruitment process for a new Assistant Director of Strategic Support. The report itself is not publicly available. However, the agenda indicates that it was considered to be confidential information under paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972.

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act. The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

Agenda frontsheet 13th-Dec-2024 11.00 Employment Procedure Committee

Schedule 12A of The Local Government Act 1972¹ places restrictions on what information councils are allowed to keep secret from the public. Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of that schedule relates to information that would be likely to reveal the identity of an individual.