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Minutes:
The Head of HR Shared Services
introduced the report, highlighting the key themes of the Workforce
Strategy and the progress made across each. Guidance for managers
had been developed to provide further opportunities for staff to
work more flexibly in the future based on experiences during the
Covid-19 outbreak, and an engagement group had been created to
improve staff engagement. Recruitment levels, which had fallen at
the beginning of 2020, were returning to pre-pandemic levels, and
the training plan for 2021-2022 had been agreed with a combination
of virtual and in-person sessions. Wellbeing events had been
conducted virtually throughout the year, and the annual wellbeing
week took place virtually in February 2021.
The significant decrease in
working days lost due to mental health was noted, having fallen
from 871 for the period July 2019 to June 2020, to under 300 for
the period July 2020 to June 2021.
RESOLVED: That the progress of the actions set out in the Workforce
Strategy be noted.