Issue - meetings

Cabinet Members: Corporate Services and Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/168

Contact: Tim Spiers, Director of IT, Innovation, Digital and Transformation, tim.spiers@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Finance (CA9).

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)    Approve the refocusing of the programme on the delivery of improvements to existing human resources, finance, payroll and procurement functions and processes.

b)    Approve that the programme does not progress the development of detailed requirements and a full business case to review delivery options for corporate support services and underpinning technology.

c)    Approve the repurposing £1.23m of the existing approved £1.57m programme funding to deliver the refocused programme and return the remaining £345k to the Transformation Reserve

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report providing an update on the progress of the Business Services Transformation Programme and sought approval for a proposal to refocus, deliver improvements to existing human resources (HR), finance, payroll and procurement functions and processes and remain with Hampshire County Council’s Integrated Business Centre (IBC).

This report also sought approval for the repurposing of £1.23m of the existing Cabinet approved £1.57m programme funding for delivery of the programme to date and to plan and deliver an Improvement Stage. The £1.57m was previously agreed at Cabinet in April 2023 for programme resources to prepare detailed requirements for a transformation and procurement process.

Councillor Neil Fawcett, Cabinet Member for Community & Corporate Services presented the report and explained the background to the proposals. He referred, in particular, to the improvements which the Council aimed to achieve including increased productivity and improvements in the quality of financial and people management data across the organisation,

Councillor Fawcett moved and Councillor Sudbury seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to approve:-

a.      the refocusing of the programme on the delivery of improvements to existing human resources, finance, payroll and procurement functions and processes.

b.    that the programme does not progress the development of detailed requirements and a full business case to review delivery options for corporate support services and underpinning technology.

c.      the repurposing £1.23m of the existing approved £1.57m programme funding to deliver the refocused programme and return the remaining £345k to the Transformation Reserve.