27 April 2011

Members are reminded that they should declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests at this point and that they should leave the meeting room before any item, in which they have a prejudicial interest, is discussed.

Members are asked to receive any questions, statements or petitions, of which notice has been received, from members of the public.

Members are asked to receive the minutes of the Strategy and Resources Committee meeting, held on 17 March 2011, attached, marked 6, and consider the recommendations at items 7, 8 and 9.

A copy of The Service Plan 2011/12 (referred to at item 7) is attached, marked 6a. A copy of the report, containing the recommendations to be considered at item 8, is attached marked 6b. A copy of the report, containing the recommendation to be agreed at item 9, is attached marked 6c.

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06-strategy-and-resources-committee-minutes-17-march-2011.pdf	41.33 KB
06a - Service Plan 2011-12.pdf	1.33 MB
06b-financial-issues-strategy-and-resources-report-march-2011.pdf	38.02 KB
06c-ict-report-to-strategy-and-resources-march-2011.pdf	26.84 KB

Members are asked to receive the non-exempt minutes of the Human Resources Committee meeting, held on 7 April 2011, attached marked 8, and consider the recommendations at items 6a, 7 and 8. These are set out below in the order, in which they were considered by the Committee.
Item 8
That the Terms of Reference of the Human Resources Committee be changed in order that consideration of outside employment applications be delegated to officers
Item 6a
That the following changes be made to the Terms of Reference of the Committee
Delete:
To consider and determine applications by uniformed personnel for permission to undertake outside employment, and to set conditions under which approval is granted
To review and amend, where required, the processes for dealing with applications for outside employment
Add:
To receive minutes from the Pensions Panel
Should this addition be agreed, this would, in turn, be reflected in the constitution of the Pensions Panel. Where the Panel makes any decision, which has a financial impact on the Fire Authority, then this information would be brought to the full Fire Authority for noting. Reference to this would also be included in the Panel’s constitution.
Item 7
That the following be deleted from Role Descriptions for the Chair and Vice Chair of the Human Resources Committee:
To consider, and grant provisional approval to (or otherwise), Applications for Outside Employment, together with the Chair / Vice-Chair of the Human Resources Committee

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08-human-resources-committee-minutes-7-april-2011.pdf	45.54 KB

This report, attached marked 10, proposes various changes to the Fire Authority’s committee structure in order to make it more efficient.

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10-steamlining-of-fire-authority-committees.pdf	59.51 KB

This report, attached marked 12, sets outs proposals and recommendations to enter into negotiations with Shropshire Council to review options to enter into a shared services arrangement to secure improvements to the Service's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure. The shared services arrangement, if approved at a later date, will make effective use of the proposed ICT reserve to support migration to the Council's new wide area network to underpin the Service's ICT Strategy for the next 3 to 5 year period.

Please note that this report should be considered in conjunction with exempt report 15a.

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12-information-and-communications-technology-strategy.pdf	69.35 KB

Following earlier Fire Authority approval for the Service to enter into formal collaboration with Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Authority/Service it can be reported that significant progress has been made to date with, as a time-bound priority, a recently produced Outline Business Case (OBC) prepared by the two organisations. The OBC was prepared in respect of a joint application for central government funding to support the implementation of the proposed ‘shared’ control room infrastructure between the two Services. The OBC will now be supplemented by a formal overarching Memorandum of Understanding setting out the full scope and expected outcomes of the collaboration, for consideration and agreement by each respective Fire Authority in June/July 2011.

This report is supplementary to agenda item 12 and sets out observations concerning the procurement route adopted by Shropshire Council.