The Chair, Councillor Paul Doughty, informed the meeting that he would be relinquishing the chair for the recruitment process for this post and Councillor Phil Davies, Vice-Chair, took the chair.

Councillor Phil Davies in the Chair

Members are asked to consider whether they have any disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests in connection with any item(s) on this agenda and, if so, to declare them and state the nature of the interest.

Members of the Committee were requested to declare whether they had any disclosable pecuniary and / or any other relevant interest in connection with any item(s) 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.

RECOMMENDED –

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 items of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined by the relevant paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to that Act. The public interest test has been applied and favours exclusion.

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.

To decide upon a short list of candidates for this post.

Further to minute 4 (19 June, 2013), the Committee considered the technical assessment report from the recruitment consultants, Penna, in relation to the six candidates (one having withdrawn), who had been long listed in the selection process.

The Committee then considered which of the six candidates should be short listed for the final stage of the selection process for the post of Head of Targeted Services.

Resolved – That candidates 4 and 13 be short listed for the final stage of the selection process for the post of Head of Targeted Services on 24 July, 2013.

To decide upon a short list of candidates for this post.

Further to minute 5 (19 June, 2013), the Committee considered the technical assessment report from the recruitment consultants, Penna, in relation to the four candidates (one having withdrawn), who had been long listed in the selection process.

The Committee then considered which of the four candidates should be short listed for the final stage of the selection process for the post of Head of Specialist Services.

Resolved – That candidates 2, 4 and 9 be short listed for the final stage of the selection process for the post of Head of Specialist Services on 25 July, 2013.