Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Corporate Services

Forward Plan Ref: 2022/252

Contact: Michael Fletcher, Head of HR Business Partnering & Advisory, michael.fletcher@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Finance (CA9)

Quarterly staffing report providing details of key people numbers and analysis of main changes since the previous report.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to note the report

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report onthe workforce profile for quarter 4 of 2022/23 (January – March 2023) and an update on the progress of some of the key workforce priorities.

Councillor Glynis Phillips, Cabinet Member for Corporate Services, introduced the report.

The report referred to an increase in the directly employed headcount in the current financial year which would be subject to further scrutiny, a reduction in staff turnover, an increase in the number of apprenticeships and an increase in agency worker costs which was being addressed through organisational reviews and recruitment campaigns.

Councillor Phillips referred in particular, to the need for all Directorates to prioritise reducing spend on agency staff and focus on recruitment of permanent staff, the age profile of the workforce and the measures being taken to reduce sickness absence.

Councillor Phillips moved and Councillor Hannaby seconded the recommendations and they were approved.

RESOLVED to note the report.