Decision details

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To establish 4 permanent Locality Lead posts to embed the locality way of working and provide strong leadership within the 4 localities.

Do Nothing – locality working is a significant Council and partnership policy drive and will help to meet many of the Mayoral and partnership recovery and renewal prioritiesas well as deliver the Borough Strategy at a hyper local level. If these posts were not made permanent then once the temporary roles end many of the ambitions of the
programme could not be realised.

Use other mainstream posts – this has been considered. These roles are unique in their nature and breadth of responsibilities. Other posts operating in a locality are generally focussed on specific areas of service and would struggle to pick up these additional and broader strategic responsibilities. There is not the capacity within
services to pick up this additional work.