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The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to approve the Workforce Plan and the actions contained within it including the revisal of the Performance Review and Development Scheme (PR&D) including the incorporation of the Capability Framework to take effect in the current PR&D year 2019/20;

(ii)        to note that the introduction of the Capability Framework to PR&Ds would form a part of the assessment of overall performance of an individual within their role and help to identify strengths as well as capability gaps that need to be addressed;

(iii)       to note that the Chief Officer (Organisational Development) would work with Trade Union colleagues in updating current PR&D guidance;

(iv)       to instruct the Chief Officer (Organisational Development) to make those amendments necessary to PR&D and to remove the stipulation that to receive an increment under the Local Salary Progression Scheme you could not be undergoing an absence management process;

(v)        to note that the capability framework would be used to support internal recruitment and movement of staff;

(vi)       to instruct the Chief Officer (Organisational Development) to develop a new approach to the internal movement of staff which would aim to mitigate the future continued use of VSER payments and to report back on this approach in October 2019; and

(vii)      to approve the utilisation of the approved corporate training budget in line with the workforce development plan.

With reference to article 8 of the minute of its previous meeting, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which presented a Workforce Plan which set out how the Council would ensure its future workforce had the capacity and capability to support the culture set out in the Guiding Principles which had been approved by Committee at its meeting in March 2019.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

(a)       approve the Workforce Plan and the actions contained within it including the revisal of the Performance Review and Development Scheme (PR&D) including the incorporation of the Capability Framework to take effect in the current PR&D year 2019/20;

(b)       note that the introduction of the Capability Framework to PR&Ds would form a part of the assessment of overall performance of an individual within their role and help to identify strengths as well as capability gaps that need to be addressed;

(c)        note that the Chief Officer - Organisational Development would work with Trade Union colleagues in updating current PR&D guidance;

(d)       instruct the Chief Officer - Organisational Development to make those amendments necessary to PR&D and to remove the stipulation that to receive an increment under the Local Salary Progression Scheme employees could not be undergoing an absence management process;

(e)       note that the capability framework would be used to support internal recruitment and movement of staff;

(f)        instruct the Chief Officer - Organisational Development to develop a new approach to the internal movement of staff which would aim to mitigate the future continued use of VSER payments and to report back on this approach in October 2019; and

(g)       approve the utilisation of the approved corporate training budget in line with the workforce development plan.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.