Agenda item

Report of the Comptroller and City Solicitor.

The Committee received a report of the Comptroller and City Solicitor which provided an overview of work carried out to date on the Accommodation and Ways of Working (AWoW) programme and highlighted potential concerns. The report set out three options for future ways forward for decision by the Policy and Resources Committee and the Projects Sub-Committee.

The Comptroller and City Solicitor explained that at the September Establishment Committee Members had suggested that certain elements of the programme be looked at in more detail including IT and whether senior officers would be included. Following this a project board had been convened of which he was Chairman which would keep the programme under review. The Comptroller and City Solicitor explained that a further report would be submitted to the Establishment Committee in the autumn of 2017.

In response to Members’ questions on the timeframe for this programme, the Comptroller and City Solicitor explained that the success of the programme was dependent on the IT provision and the project would only move forward when this was in place. The Director of Human Resources further advised the Committee that the project board would be looking at the versatile mobile technology already in place at the City Corporation and how this could be used with small pilot trials taking place. A Member, also the Chairman of the IT Sub Committee, assured Members that the IT provision was a core part of the IT Transformation Programme, which was the IT Sub Committee’s highest priority.

RESOLVED – That the Committee note the report.