Minutes for Cabinet Member - Corporate Services meeting, Feb 4 2009, 10.00AM official page

No apologies for absence were received.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

No declarations of interest were received.

Minutes of the meeting held on *

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting held on 7 January 2009 be confirmed as a correct record.

Joint report of the Finance and Information Services Director and the Personnel Director

The Cabinet Member considered the joint report of the Finance and Information Services Director and the Personnel Director seeking approval to proceed with a collaborative sourcing exercise to secure the services of a supplier of Agency staff to the authority.

RESOLVED:

That Sefton’s participation within the collaborative procurement exercise alongside the partner participants across Merseyside as referred to within this report be approved.

To consider passing the following resolution:

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph …. 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.

RESOLVED:  

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 (Item No. 6 – Catering Services – Restructure) on the grounds that it may involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test had been applied and favoured exclusion of the information from the press and public.

Joint Report of the Strategic Director of Children’s Services and Personnel Director

(Paragraph 1)

Further to Minute No. 120 of the meeting of the Cabinet Member – Children’s Services held on 20 January 2009, the Cabinet Member considered the report of the Strategic Director of Children’s Services seeking approval for the reorganisation of the existing catering service.

RESOLVED: That

(1)       the reorganisation of the existing catering service, as detailed within paragraphs 3.1 to 3.5 of the report, be approved; and

(2)       in accordance with the Responsibility of Functions provided in the Council’s constitution, it be noted that the personnel implications described within the report have been approved by the Personnel Director in consultation with Strategic Director of Children’s Services.

To receive a presentation from Linda Price, IT and Contract Monitoring Client Manager

The Cabinet Member received a presentation from Linda Price, IT and Contract Monitoring Client Manager and Richard Roscoe, Information Security Data Protection officer from the Finance and Information Services Department.

The presentation sought to update on the Information and ICT Security Policy; the reasons behind the need of a formal policy; and next steps.

RESOLVED: That

(1)   Linda Price and Richard Roscoe be thanked for their informative presentation; and

(2)    they be requested to provide an update on developments at a future meeting.