Issue - meetings

For the Committee to consider its training needs and how these will be fulfilled.

The Managing Director noted the Committee’s role in recruitment to senior roles for which Employment Law and Safer Recruitment training was required.

RESOLVED that the members of the Committee along with substitutes be provided with suitable training to fulfil their recruitment role.

For the Committee to consider its training needs and how these will be fulfilled.

The Committee considered it training requirements and how these would be fulfilled.

RESOLVED that the Head of Organisational Development & HR provide the Committee (both Members and Substitutes) with statutory training on the legal requirements involved in employee recruitment inclusive of:

·       safer recruitment training;

·       guidance on unconscious bias and protected characteristics; and

·       case studies including those arising from employment tribunals

For the Committee to consider its training needs and how these will be fulfilled.

To discuss training for Employment Committee Members.

Acknowledging that a new Member had joined the Committee this year, it was noted that nearly all the Members and Substitutes of the Employment Committee had previously participated in externally provided training on employment law. Members endorsed a fresh approach that would enable Employment Committee Members to understand the Council’s own training and guidance given to Managers in recruitment.

RESOLVED that the Head of Organisational Development & HR provide to Committee Members the same training and guidance given to recruiting Managers at the Council.