... the reports (which you can read in full here) were all passed by Committee - but as I hinted last week, a Coalition Motion did accompany that approval, and I'll simply re-produce the text of that below:
Item No. 7.3 |
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Report Title BOLD Business Cases: delivering a lean and agile Council |
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Committee:
1.
Acknowledges
the recommendations 1.1 through to 1.9, and replaces the whole with this Coalition
Motion.
2.
Notes
that on 27 November 2014, Committee agreed that the business cases for the
BOLD transformation projects would be reported to this Committee on 15
January 2015.
3.
Further
notes that December’s Full Council Meeting approved the “Organise to deliver:
next steps” report, and an additional recommendation was added, by Coalition
Motion, to establish a ‘Checkpoint Group’ of key stakeholders, which would
oversee the process of implementation of the proposed revised delivery model.
That Group has now met once (prior to the Christmas recess) and is scheduled
to meet again on Thursday 22nd January, and will meet on a monthly
basis thereafter.
4.
Now
receives the first four (of six) BOLD business cases and notes the rationale
and requirement for transformation, and the budget gap and savings required
(from 2016/17 onwards, in connection to these six BOLD business cases), as
outlined in paragraph 3.3 of this report.
5.
Explicitly
notes that the overall transformation programme will be undertaken against the
framework of:
·
Coalition Pledge
26 to establish a policy of no compulsory redundancies
·
A
presumption against outsourcing of Council services
·
A
presumption in favour of the protection of front-line services
6.
Against
this explicit framework, now agrees the BOLD programme overview – ‘the case
for change’ outlined in appendix two of this
report; and agrees the strategic direction – and broad principles – behind
the four business cases for ‘channel shift’, ‘business and customer
services’, ‘localities’ and ‘partnership’, with related resource and
implementation plans, all as outlined in appendices three to six of this
report.
7.
Notes that the
remaining two business cases for ‘workforce strategy and controls’ and
‘property’ will be brought to Finance and Resources Committee in February and
Spring 2015 respectively.
8.
Notes
that implementation of the business cases will require a significant
commitment of officer time and therefore instructs the Director of Corporate
Governance to progress permanent recruitment to those head of service posts
which are critical to the successful delivery of the programme.
9.
Notes
that appropriate consultation with both Trades Unions and employees will take
place in relation to all of these proposals.
10. Further agrees that the delivery of
each of the six BOLD business cases will now be the subject of further
detailed discussion and oversight, at specific meetings of Committee and the
‘Checkpoint Group’, prior to inclusion in the 2016/17 Budget process, and
that they may consider establishing specific short-life oversight
arrangements for monitoring delivery of each of the business cases.
11.
Specifically
on the ‘localities’ business case, notes that significant work is required to
ensure careful alignment, and clear accountabilities, between the existing 12
Neighbourhood Partnerships and the 4 proposed ‘Localities’. Robust oversight
of the development of the most efficient local delivery model will be needed.
12. Further notes that the Coalition
remains committed to publication of an overall draft Budget (for 2016/17) by
the end of September 2015, which would be further publically consulted upon
between October and December 2015, all prior to any final decisions on the
2016/17 Budget being taken at the scheduled Special Council Meeting in February
2016.
13. Further approves, and agrees to
replace the existing BOLD governance arrangements with, the revised programme
governance arrangements set out in paragraphs 3.28 to 3.31 and appendix 7 of
this report.
14. And finally instructs the Director of Corporate Governance to provide:
·
progress
reports on a bi-monthly basis to this Committee (the first such progress
report to be received by this Committee on 19 March 2015), which will focus
on the implementation of each business case, the realisation of savings, and
progress on the Council’s efforts to maximise additional income through new
sources of potential revenue.
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and
broader update reports on a quarterly basis to the ‘Corporate Policy and
Strategy Committee’, which will focus on the wider strategic delivery of the
overall BOLD programme.
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Moved by |
Councillor Rankin |
Seconded by |
Councillor Bill Cook |
