Agenda item

The Executive Director Place will submit a report informing the Board of proposed structural changes to Regulatory Services to be determined in accordance with delegated functions.

The Executive Director Place submitted a report informing the Board of proposed structural changes to Regulatory Services to be determined in accordance with delegated functions.

The Regulatory Services function would be split and the responsibility for Food Hygiene, Health and Safety, Trading Standards and Pollution Control would transfer from the Place Directorate to Public Health whilst the responsibility for the Licensing function would transfer to Legal Services within the Core Directorate.

The arrangements were proposed in order to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the three year improvement plan, growth and sustainability strategy and would make the Services more efficient and effective either by improving the synergy of those services or to achieve further efficiencies by economies of scale.

It was noted that the transfer would require a straight ‘lift and shift’ into the new Business Units and that there would be no changes to the terms and conditions of staff.  In addition there were no compulsory redundancies arising from the proposals.

RESOLVED  that the report be noted