Agenda item

Annemarie Allen, of Barnett Waddingham, to be heard.

The Board received a presentation from Annemarie Allen from Barnett Waddingham which set out the preliminary conclusions drawn from the Board Members’ training needs assessments, and provided an update on training plan development and some training updates in important areas.

The Town Clerk noted there was lots of useful advice on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) website. Ms Allen noted that this included a useful training toolkit for Board Members, which was not LGPS-specific. Members were reminded that knowledge should be kept up to date and the Town Clerk undertook to circulate Local Government Association (LGA) updates on a monthly basis. Ms Allen advised that training needs would be reassessed annually. It was agreed that the current training needs assessments and analysis would be completed and a full training plan then produced. In the meantime, the analysis to date had been used to plan suitable training for the next meeting. 

The Deputy Chairman requested greater clarity over how this Board would interact with other City Corporation Committees, with particular reference to the timing of meetings. The Town Clerk advised resolutions between each Committee were the formal route but confirmed that feedback could be emailed to Board Members between meetings, and undertook to bring a schedule of meeting dates for the Financial Investment Board, Establishment Committee and Finance Committee to the next Board meeting to inform its meeting schedule.

The Board thanked Ms Allen for her presentation and analysis, and expressed its thanks to the Town Clerk and the Chamberlain at this, their last meeting.