Agenda item

Proper Officer Designations Relating to the Functions of Director of Children's Services and Monitoring Officer

To approve, with or without amendment, the recommendations in the report of the Executive Director, Resources, published with this agenda, regarding the transfer of the statutory function of Director of Children’s Services from the post of Executive Director, People Services, to the post of Director of Children’s Services, and the transfer of the statutory function of Monitoring Officer from one officer to another.

 

Minutes:

12.1

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: On the motion formally moved by Councillor Dianne Hurst and formally seconded by Councillor Joe Otten, that this Council:-

 

 

 

(a)      notes the creation of the temporary post of Director of Children’s Services and that the Director of Children’s Services and the Director of Adult Health and Social Care will both report directly to the Chief Executive for this interim period;

 

 

 

(b)      designates the new post of Director of Children’s Services as the Director of Children’s Services in accordance with section 18 of the Children Act 2004;

 

 

 

(c)      agrees the appointment of Andrew Jones as Director of Children’s Services and his designation as the Council’s Director of Children’s Services in accordance with section 18 of the Children Act 2004;

 

 

 

(d)      agrees the appointment of David Hollis as interim Director of Legal and Governance from 24th September 2022 and his designation as Monitoring Officer in accordance with section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;

 

 

 

(e)      agrees the changes to the Statutory Officer and Proper Officer designations within Part 7 of the Constitution as set out at Appendix A;

 

 

 

(f)       agrees that references to the Executive Director, People in the Terms of Reference of the Admissions Committee, in the Employment Procedure Rules and in Appendix J to the Officer Code of Conduct are to be read as referring to the Director of Children’s Services; and

 

 

 

(g)      agrees that Part 7B – Management Structure of the Constitution shall be read as though the reference to the Executive Director, People Services being designated as the Director of Children’s Services under the Children Act 2004 had been removed.

 

 

 

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