Issue - meetings

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Finance which provided details of the training plan (2025/26) for the Pensions Committee and Pension Board of the North East Scotland Pension Fund.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve the travel of members to attend external training opportunities, as set out in the attached report;

(b)      approve the updated Training Policy (as per Appendix I of the report); and

(c)      note the requirement to have completed the Pensions Regulator online training and the Hymans online training in line with the Training Policy.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note the comments from Members that it would be helpful if there was there was a follow-up provided in the system after any webinars, to allow learning to be checked and that officers would feed this back to the supplier;

(ii)       to note the additional comments from Members around the user interface and frustrations caused with blank screens and courses not being available and to request that this also be fed back to the supplier;

(iii)      to note that if Members had any specific training needs, that they should feed this back to officers; and

(iv)      to approve the recommendations.