Issue - meetings

          The Board considered a report of the Corporate Director – Chief Executive’s Delivery Unit, which provided an update on the governance arrangements for the Council’s Transformation Programme. The Council’s Transformation Programme had started to operate on 1 April 2023, since then it had grown in both scope and complexity. The programme is in place until 31 March 2026 and the governance primarily sat with Executive Board, who acted as the Programme Board.

          In August 2024 a Transformation Programme Board was established. This was a working party consisting of ten Executive Board members.

          In addition to the Board, a level of scrutiny operated across the projects through Topic Groups led by the Chairs of the relevant Policy and Performance Boards. Any recommendations emerging from this scrutiny are referred to the Transformation Programme Board via the Lead Member for the respective project. The Terms of Reference for the Transformation Programme Board were appended to the report.

          The Board discussed the governance arrangements for the Transformation Programme Board and agreed that for the purposes of transparency, the Executive Board be recommended to consider that members of the Audit and Governance Board should be included as part of the Board membership.

          RESOLVED: That

1)    the report be noted; and

2)    Executive Board be recommended to consider that members of the Audit and Governance Board be included as part of the Transformation Programme Board membership.