County Charles Edwards

Work Programme 2024/25

From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024

...to approve the recommendations for the 2024/25 work programme.

Recommendations Approved

Minutes of the Meeting Held on 26 September 2024

From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024

Recommendations Approved

Workforce Matters

From: Community, Cultural, and Corporate Services Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 31st October, 2024 10.30 am - October 31, 2024

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?

Recommendations Approved

Lancashire County Council Timetable of Meetings 2025/26

From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024

...to approve the timetable of Full Council, Cabinet, and Committee meetings for the period of June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026, and to move the Full Council meeting scheduled for May 29, 2025, to May 22, 2025.

Recommendations Approved

The Overview and Scrutiny Committees

From: Full Council - Thursday, 17th October, 2024 1.00 pm - October 17, 2024

...to note the report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees from their meetings in June, July, and September 2024.

Recommendations Approved