The Minutes of the meeting held on 8 November 2018 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Chief Executive submitted the proceedings of the Local Joint Forum meeting held on 8 November 2018.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted a report on the Council’s requirement in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017 as an employer with 250 or more employees to publish statutory gender pay gap calculations every year on 31 March.  The  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development submitted a report on the development of the Pay Policy 2019/20, in preparation for its submission to full Council on 26 March 2019.  A copy of the Pay Policy Statement 2019/20 was appended to the report.  The report stated that Local Authorities  ...  view the full minutes text for item 16.

Ita McGullion, Under 5s Care Manager, presented a report providing the Committee with details of the Kennet Day Nursery’s budget for 2019/20 and proposed an increase in fees for the Nursery from April 2019.  The report explained that the last proposal to increase fees had been in April 2018  ...  view the full minutes text for item 17.

At this point, the following motion will be moved by the Chair:

“That, pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) members of the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item on the agenda, as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in the relevant Paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A (as amended) of that Act”

Resolved-

That pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) members of the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item, as it was likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part  ...  view the full minutes text for item 18.

The Assistant Director of HR and Organisational Development, the Monitoring Officer and the Head of Finance submitted a joint report, which set out 23 requests for termination of employment on grounds of redundancy (one of which was tabled at the meeting), one request for early retirement on the grounds of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 19.