Further to minute 32 (15 September 2011), the Deputy Chief Executive/Director of Finance presented an update on the Council’s Strategic Change Programme, following the Strategic Change Programme Board (SCPB) meeting held on 18 October 2011. The Board had agreed that there was a need to review the Programme in the light of the Council’s corporate governance issues and challenging budgetary position. He reported upon the removal of a number of projects and presented the current position of the programme for 2011/2012 and for 2012/2013 in appendices to his report.

The Change Programme had been identified as an area for review in the Comprehensive Work Programme to achieve improvements in corporate governance and the next step was to determine the role of the change programme going forward to deliver projects that would fundamentally alter the way in which Wirral operated as a Council within the financial context.

Resolved – That the progress and content of the Strategic Change Programme be noted.