Issue - meetings

Report by the Director of Human Resources and Organisational Change and the Director of Law and Assurance.

The Committee is asked to consider the annual report of the Appeals Panel for 2018/19.

7.1     The Committee considered the annual report of the Appeals Panel for 2018/19 by the Director of Human Resources and Organisational Change and the Director of Law and Assurance(copy appended to the signed minutes).

7.2     A question was asked about whether statistics on the number of appeals held per year included appeals which had been set up and then withdrawn.  The Director of Law and Assurance said it did not but that such instances could be included in the report in future years.

7.3     Resolved –

(1)     That the Appeals Panel Annual Report 2018/19 be noted; and

(2)     That in future years the report of appeals heard would include a note of those which were requested but had not gone forward for any reason.