Agenda item

Joint Annual Report for the 'Social' Strategies: Responsible Business, Social Mobility, Digital Skills and Climate Action Strategies for 2020-21

Joint Report of the Chamberlain, Managing Director, Bridge House Estates, Director of Innovation and Growth, and Director of Community & Children’s Services.

Minutes:

The Committee received a Joint Report of the Chamberlain, the Managing Director, Bridge House Estates, the Director of Innovation and Growth, and the Director of Community and Children’s Services concerning the combined annual strategies for Responsible Business, Social Mobility, Digital Skills and Climate Action for 2020-21.

 

Members encouraged officers to liaise with the Communications Department to ensure that the Report was as widely disseminated as possible. 

 

Members were keen that officers captured the data on who was viewing the Report online and asked that an update on this metric was presented to them when next year’s iteration of the Report was submitted to the Committee.

 

A Member noted that, whilst succinctness was important, the two programmes alluded to briefly in the Report did not have any further information on their aims and remit and asked that the Report be amended to include some more detail.

 

A Member asked whether some of the terminology in the Foreword of the Report was appropriate, namely: ‘…. The COVID-19 epidemic has had disproportionate health and economic impacts on certain groups, including black people, people from some Asian Backgrounds’. Officers would liaise with the Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion to ensure that the wording throughout the Report was appropriate and amended as necessary. 

 

Members asked the Report author to make any changes as required and update the Policy & Resources Committee (meeting 16/09) on the issues identified.

 

RESOLVED – that the Committee noted the Report. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESOLVED – that the Committee noted the Report.

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