Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

There were none.

To confirm the Minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 13 July 2022.

The minutes of the previous meeting held on 13 July 2022 were agreed and signed by the Chair as an accurate record of the meeting. Subject to addition of Cllr Lawman present as observer.

a)    Sensory Impairment Service (SIS) Change Request

b)    Section 106 Disaggregation Variation Notice

At the Chair’s invitation, the Executive Director Children’s Services presented the report and summarised the recommendations at section 3 of the report. The Executive Director explained that the department had reviewed an alternative delivery model opposed to straight disaggregation. The rationale for the alternative delivery model was due to the highly specialised officers required to undertake the work and the Councils’ duty to deliver the service and potential risk to the equality’s duty with disaggregation, which would leave them open to challenge. She explained that the Sensory Impairment Service was highly regarded with high national standards and a report would be brought back to the Shared Services Joint Committee for consideration at a future meeting to consider what the future business model would look like. The proposal was for North Northamptonshire Council to continue to lead with his service with cooperation from West Northamptonshire Council.

Members discussed the report and expressed that this was a sensible way forward. Members questioned why this hadn’t been realised earlier and the size of the team proposed in the report. The Executive Director Children’s Services responded that the original recommendations for the service area were determined pre-vesting day and in practice disaggregation was too risky. The team of 59 would be sizable due to the different elements and specific roles required for example there are teachers of deaf persons, teachers of blind persons, someone who would translate the curriculum into braille, and this was another reason why disaggregation was not favoured as these individual roles could not be disaggregated and retain the current level of resilience.

At the Chair’s invitation, the Executive Director of Place and Economy presented the report and highlighted the recommendations at section 3 of the report. He explained that the department would disaggregate the former county council element of the section 106 service and gave the committee background information to the report. He summarised that there were two posts in the team which was currently based in North Northamptonshire managing the former Northamptonshire County Council section 106 element with larger sums of money relating to schools, fire and rescue, broadband, monitoring responsibilities, highways and public transport provided to WNC from NNC as detailed in the inter-authority agreement. The Executive Director of Place and Economy confirmed that they were on track to disaggregate the service by 30 September as agreed in the blueprint. He explained the key elements of the disaggregation would include all live data - over 300 individual cases, the information on both websites, email data and more. However, there were two elements which needed further consideration and would take longer with a collaborative working agreement, and this related to the historical data held going back over 10 years which will need disaggregation of the former NCC. The Executive Director highlighted the options contained at section 5 of the report and explained that option 1 was recommended by the officers to split staff through TUPE arrangements with the risks flagged and for a collaborative agreement to be in place  ...  view the full minutes text for item 17.

The Shared Services Joint Committee to consider the Inter Authority Agreement Public Health Intelligence Schedule 3

At the Chair’s invitation the Consultant for Public Health presented the report and explained that the IAA was for the public health business intelligence team which was a small specialist team that provided statutory functions, statutory returns, and support for public health as well as the intelligence commissions service. The IAA sets out how the service operates and the monitoring arrangements and specified statutory returns to submit to public health organisations and the work programme outlined the performance dashboards.

RESOLVED: That the Shared Services Joint Committee:

a)    Approved the proposed Service Plan for Public Health – Health Intelligence and STP.

The Chair to advise whether they have agreed to any items of urgent business being admitted to the agenda.

There were none.