Issue - meetings

The People Report is designed to give officers and members relevant workforce data in an easy to understand format in order to support informed strategic decision making.

Dan Paul, Chief People Officer, introduced the report as set out.

In response to questions from the Committee it was noted that:

• Recruitment was difficult now and there were jobs that have been hard to recruit into for a long time.
• There were jobs that were becoming harder to recruit to on a permanent basis and the number of agency workers had increased.
• Agency workers were recruited for a variety of reasons including:

1.    Recruited into a role for specific or specialist skills.

2.    To fill temporary gaps.

3.     For projects that were not expected to continue for a long time.

• The numbers in the people report in section 6.1.5, were a mixture of people who were new employees on apprentice contracts, and existing employees who were increasing their skills through undertaking an apprentice levy funded qualification.
• There were a lot of people within the Council taking Apprentice Levy funded courses. There was work in progress with the regeneration team to look at transferring some of the levy to small and medium sized enterprises based in Haringey in order to upscale workforces, so there would also be a benefit to the Council and the wider community.
• Most apprentices moved into jobs either within the Council or elsewhere when their apprenticeship was completed.

• The Committee requested further information on the numbers of Haringey residents and non-residents in apprentice schemes. It was felt that this information could help to improve the programme. Dan Paul advised that a summary of the data would be produced on an annual basis.
• The apprenticeship programme was advertised on the Council's website, the internet and through appropriate local media. This was decided between the manager and the recruitment team. Information on the programme was also available through the job centre.

• Human Resources also worked closely with Haringey Works to source local employees.

RESOLVED

The Report is for information and for the Committee to note.