4 Audit Wales - Strategic Workforce Management - NPTCBC Organisational Response PDF 480 KB
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Decision:
That
the report be noted for information.
Minutes:
Members
received the Council’s response to the Audit Wales – Springing Forward:
Strategic Workforce Management – Neath Port Talbot Council as detailed in the
circulated report.
Wales
Audit Office representatives attended the meeting and explained that the report
was a very positive report and the Council had a clear vision for its
Workforce.
Discussion
took place on the recommendations contained within the circulated report that
needed further focus on to continue to build on the good practice already in
place.
·
Progression and pathways for Staff;
·
Resilience around business critical roles and identification;
·
Succession planning;
·
Better understanding of the impact of the Workforce Strategy;
·
Consider and build on the benchmarking of measures and metrics and
identify key areas of good practice and potential areas for improvement.
Following
on, Members queried what work was taking place to increase the number of
succession plans, the quality of those plans and how managers where going to be
encouraged to use the improved toolkit.
Officers
explained that a number of workshops had taken place with all managers,
informing managers of the importance of succession planning and the use of the
toolkit. These workshops had now formed part of the core training for new
managers and will take place annually with all managers.
In
addition, a Talent Management Team had been created which had started to look
at the future skills sets required and by working with colleges and
universities how these needs could be planned for. The team are also looking at the current
workforce and developing career pathways within the Council.
Members
were very pleased and reassured by what they had received today and thanked all
the team for all the work they had undertaken to progress this and looked
forward to hearing more on the progress in future.
Members
noted that the continued monitoring of this would be an important part of the
Governance and Audit Committees role.
RESOLVED: That the report be noted.