Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chair for the meeting.

RESOLVED:

                        that Councillor Willmott be appointed as Chair for the meeting.

No apologies for absence were received.  

Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in the business to be discussed and/or indicate that Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 applies to them.

No declarations of interest were received.

Members are asked to confirm the public minutes of the meeting of the Employees (Appointments) Committee held on 11 February 2009, concerning the short-listing for the post of Strategic Director – Children.

RESOLVED:

that the minutes of the Employees (Appointments) Committee, held on 11 February 2009, be approved as a correct record.

Members are asked to note the change in membership from the short-listing meeting convened for 11 February 2009. Councillor Johnson, who took part in the shortlisting meeting as a substitute, has since replaced Councillor Mrs Chambers as the Conservative Group nominee for the vacancy on the Committee. 

RESOLVED:

it be noted that Councillor Mrs Chambers be replaced by Councillor Johnson as the Conservative Group nominee to the committee.

No items of urgent business were received.

AGENDA

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO NOTE

Under the law, the Committee is entitled to consider certain items in private where in the circumstances the public interest in maintaining the matter exempt from publication outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. 

Members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting when such items are discussed.

The Committee is recommended to consider the following reports in private on the grounds that they contain ‘exempt’ information as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, as amended and consequently that the Cabinet makes the following resolution:-

“that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following reports in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because they involve the likely disclosure of 'exempt' information, as defined in the Paragraphs detailed below of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information ”

Paragraph 1

Information relating to any individual.

RESOLVED:

that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A (4) of the Local government Act 1972, as amended, because it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in the Paragraph detailed below of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act. Taking all the circumstances into account, it was considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

Paragraph 1

Information relating to any individual.

Members are asked to confirm the private minutes of the meeting of the Employees (Appointments) Committee held on 11 February 2009, concerning the short-listing for the post of Strategic Director – Children.

RESOLVED:

that the private minutes of the Employees (Appointments) Committee, held on 11 February 2009, be approved as a correct record.

To conduct interviews and consider making an appointment to the above post.

A document pack detailing all short listed applicants will be provided to Members in advance of the meeting. 

The Committee conducted interviews for the above post.

RESOLVED:

that appointment to the post be carried.

The full decision is recorded in the private section of the Minutes as it contains exempt information, as defined in Paragraph 1 of Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1990. That is, information relating to an individual and the public interest in maintaining confidentiality is considered to outweigh the public interest in publishing the information.

The meeting closed at 2.30pm.