Decision details

The Assistant Director – Customers, Commissioning and Change submitted a report seeking approval to establish and recruit to additional posts in the ICT service to support delivery of the Council ICT Improvement Programme.

Delivery of the ICT Improvement Programme would provide Chesterfield Borough Council with greater ICT resilience and reliability. The Improvement Programme would also lay the foundations to enable future digital transformation of Council services.

When funding for the ICT Improvement Programme was approved by Cabinet on 24 April, 2018 and Council on 25 April, 2018, the need to strengthen the competence, capability and capacity of the service was highlighted as an issue that would need to be addressed through a fundamental review of the current staff establishment. The report sought to address the need.

*RESOLVED –

1.   That the identified additional ICT posts be approved and added to the Council’s establishment.

2.   That the Executive Director and Assistant Director - Customers, Commissioning and Change be granted delegated authority, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Business Transformation, to recruit to the new posts, within the constraints of the ICT Improvement Programme approved budgets.

REASON FOR DECISIONS

To ensure the Council has the correct competence, capability and capacity to deliver the approved ICT Improvement Programme.