Members are asked to consider whether they have any disclosable pecuniary and / or any other relevant interest, in connection with any item on this agenda and, if so, to declare it and state the nature of the interest.

Members of the Panel were requested to declare whether they had any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or any other relevant interest in the item on this agenda and, if so, to declare it and state the nature of such interest.

No such declarations were made.

The public may be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information.

RECOMMENDATION – That in accordance with section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business, on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act. The public interest test has been applied and favours exclusion.

On a motion by the Chair, seconded by Councillor A Jones, it was -

Resolved - That, under section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 12A (as amended) to that Act.

Having received feedback from officers and those Members who had met the two candidates that morning, the Panel considered which of the two candidates interviewed by officers and partner agencies should be invited to attend for final interview for the post of Head of Specialist Services.

Resolved – That candidate numbers 1 and 2 be invited to attend for final interview.

Final selection process for the post of Head of Specialist Services, Families and Wellbeing Department.

Further to minute 10, the Panel interviewed the two short listed candidates for the post of Head of Specialist Services.

It was moved by Councillor Phil Davies, seconded by Councillor Tony Smith and then –

Resolved (unanimously) – That Lisa Arthey, currently, Interim Head of Children in Need and CWD, Warrington MBC, be appointed to the post of Head of Specialist Services within the Department for Families and Wellbeing, subject to the necessary legal checks.