Issue - meetings
Workforce Strategy Update Report
Meeting: 27/07/2021 - Democracy and General Purposes Committee (Item 35)
35 Workforce Strategy Update Report 
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Additional documents:
- Appendix 1: Workforce Plan 2016-2020 Progress, July 2021, item 35
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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.