Report of the Interim Monitoring Officer attached.

Further to Minute No. 44 of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 25 October 2017, the Council considered a report of the Interim Monitoring Officer detailing the work of a Scrutiny Committee Task Group into the issue of staff morale and the Cabinet’s response to the recommendations of the Scrutiny Committee Task Force. The Committee had made several recommendations to Cabinet and all were accepted.

The following documents were appended to the report:

Appendix – Cabinet report dated the 25 October 2017

Appendix A – Action Plan to address the recommendations of the Scrutiny Committee Task Group

Appendix B – Report of the Scrutiny Committee Task Group – Review of Staff Morale.

It was moved by Councillor Peter Mullineaux, seconded by Councillor Colin Clark and

RESOLVED:

That the Scrutiny Committee Task Group Review of Staff Morale and the Cabinet response to it be noted.

Report of the Interim Corporate Governance Manager attached

RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that

1. the draft response to the recommendations of the Scrutiny Committee Review of Staff Morale at Appendix A to the report be approved.
2. the report and action plan will be presented to the next meeting of full Council on 22 November 2017 be noted.

The Interim Corporate Governance Manager presented to Cabinet the draft response to the recommendation of the Scrutiny Committee’s review of staff morale.  It was proposed that the report of the Scrutiny Committee’s review and the action plan be presented to the next meeting of the council.

Cabinet was thankful for the work carried out by the committee’s task group which was informative and useful adding to other work being carried out.

The chairman of the Scrutiny Committee appreciated Cabinet’s kind comments adding that the task group had learned the council had done a lot of work in the last six months. He was grateful the recommendations had been received, but wondered about the thinking behind the proposal to have temperature checks ad hoc rather than quarterly.

RESOLVED (UNANIMOUSLY): that

1. the draft response to the recommendations of the Scrutiny Committee Review of Staff Morale at Appendix A to the report be approved.
2. the report and action plan will be presented to the next meeting of full Council on 22 November 2017 be noted.