Issue - meetings

Matter for Decision

The 2018/19 shared business case for 3C Legal Services was presented for endorsement, the principles of which were approved on the 13^th July and 12^th October 2015.

Decision of Executive Councillor for Finance and Resources

i.      Approved the business plan attached at Agenda Item 6a to the Officer’s report.

ii.  Delegated authority to the Shared Service Management Board to agree final amendments to the business plan in line with comments received form all three partner individual Councils

Reason for the Decision

As set out in the Officer’s report.

Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected

Not applicable.

Scrutiny Considerations

The Committee received a report from the Head of Legal Practice.

The Committee made the following comments in response to the report:

     i.        Asked what criteria and objectives were being applied to assess the business plans. 

    ii.        Asked whether the quality of service that had been provided over the past 12 months had been assessed. 

The Executive Councillor said the following in response to Members’ questions:

     i.        In response to the question about criteria and objectives, he referred to page 39 of the Officer’s report and the key performance indicators for the service and also page 41 and 43 of the Officer’s report.

The Head of Legal Practice commented that the report contained the objectives for the Legal Practice for the year ahead and the past year.  He would try and capture further information on external spend and refer this to the quarterly management board meetings.

The Committee endorsed the recommendations by 4 votes to 0:

The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.

Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations Granted)

No conflicts of interest were declared by the Executive Councillor.