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Report To: SCOTTISH FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE BOARD
Report No: B/ARAC/03-15
Date: 30 JULY 2015
Report By: WILLIAM MCQUEEN, CHAIR OF THE STAFF GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Subject: STAFF GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. PURPOSE
1.1 The purpose of the report is to present revised draft Terms of Reference for the Staff
Governance Committee, which is attached at Appendix A.
2. RECOMMENDATION
2.1 The Board is invited to agree the content of the attached revised Staff Governance
Committee Terms of Reference.
3. BACKGROUND
3.1 At the meeting of the Board of the SFRS on 28 May 2015, it was agreed that the
Staff Governance Committee Terms of Reference should be revised to take account
of comments made by Board members in relation to potential overlap with elements
of the proposed revised Scheme of Delegation, and subsequently be brought to the
July Board meeting for approval.
3.2 Alasdair Hay, Chief Officer, Kirsty Darwent, Deputy Chair, Bill McQueen, Chair of the
Staff Governance Committee, Sarah O’Donnell, Director of Finance and Contractual
Services, Peter Ross, SFRS Solicitor, and Roy Dunsire, Business Support Team,
met on 9 June to consider revisions to the Terms of Reference, including how to align
them with the revised Scheme of Delegation.
3.3 At its meeting on 23 June 2015, the Staff Governance Committee agreed the revised
Terms of Reference with an amendment to Appendix 2, ie the addition of a bullet
Agenda
Item: 8.4.b
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point in the section ‘For each meeting the Staff Governance Committee will be
4.1 Track changes at Appendix A indicate where revisions have been made to the
Terms of Reference that were presented to the Board on 28 May 2015, and are in
support of the comments outlined at Section 3.1 of the report.
4.2 Track changes at Appendix 2 indicate where a revision was made to the Terms of
Reference presented to the Staff Governance Committee on 23 June 2015.
4.3 Appendix 3 provides information regarding what the Committee expects the
Standing Agenda items of the Staff Governance Committee should be.
5. LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
5.1 There are no legal implications arising from the adoption of the above-mentioned
arrangements.
6 FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
6.1 There are no financial implications arising from the adoption of the above-mentioned
arrangements.
7 EQUALITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT
7.1 The existing Equality Impact Assessment – Board Operating Arrangements, has
been reviewed and there are no issues arising from the recommendations.
8 CORE BRIEF
8.1 The Board considered a paper proposing Terms of Reference for the new Staff
Governance Committee. These had been revised from a draft presented at the
previous Board meeting so as to take account of comments made and avoid any
potential conflict with the terms of the Board’s Scheme of Delegations.
WILLIAM MCQUEEN Chair of the Staff Governance Committee 30 July 2015 (For further information, please contact: Business Support Team, SFRS HQ, 5 Whitefriars Crescent, Perth PH2 0PA
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SCOTTISH FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE BOARD CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE STAFF GOVERNANCE
COMMITTEE
Author/Role Diane Vincent
Date of Risk Assessment (if applicable) N/A
Date of Equality Impact Assessment
Date of Impact Assessment (commenced)
N/A
Date of Impact Assessment (concluded) N/A
Quality Control (name) Roy Dunsire
Authorised (name and date) William McQueen
Date for Review May 2016
Appendix A
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