Agenda and minutes

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 20 October 2017.

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 20 October 2017 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Chief Executive provided an update in relation to the Monitoring Officer previously discussed at Committee.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.

Councillors and officers were invited to declare any interests they had in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.

No declarations of interest were made.

Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair and Councillors on any matters within the powers and duties of the Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.  (Questions must be submitted prior to the commencement of the meeting on the card provided.  These are available at the meeting. You can also submit via the Council’s website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions)

Members of the public were invited to put questions to the Chair on any matters within the powers and duties of the Area Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.

No questions were submitted.

No public questions were submitted.

To consider whether it is in the public to exclude the public during consideration of agenda item 5 which contains information “not for publication by virtue of Category 3 ‘Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority)’ as set out in the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

Item RESOLVED – That in order to prevent the disclosure of information which was not for publication relating to the financial or business affairs of the any particular person (including the authority), the disclosure of which would not be in the public interest, would not be fair and would be in breach of Data Protection principles, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the ‘not for publication’ appendix to agenda item 5 ‘Corporate Leadership Team Interim Arrangements.’ (see minute 5 below)

To consider a report of the Chief Executive.

The Committee are requested to note the report.

Officer Contact: Pam Smith on Tel: 0161 474 3001 or email: pam.smith@stockport.gov.uk

The Chief Executive submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) proposing a new interim operating model for the Corporate Leadership Team. She reported that in respect to section 2.1 of the report, it should read March 2018 as opposed to March 2017.

RESOLVED – (1) That the interim arrangements for the Corporate Leadership Team be endorsed pending a wider review and that a further update be provided to the Committee in 6 months’ time.

(2)That the statutory role of Director of Children’s Services (DCS) be designated to the current Service Director of Stockport Family with effect from 1^st March 2018 as part of these interim arrangements.

(3) That the statutory role of Director of Adult Social Services (DASS) be designated to the current Director of Adult Social Care with effect from 1^st March 2018 as part of these interim arrangements.