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 interview the short listed candidates for this post.

Further to minute 17 (24 July 2013) the Committee interviewed the two short listed candidates for the post of Head of Targeted Services.

It was moved by Councillor Phil Davies, seconded by Councillor Phil Gilchrist and then -

Resolved (unanimously) – That Deborah Gornik, currently Head of Service, Prevention and Partnerships, Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council, be appointed to the post of Head of Targeted Services, Families and Wellbeing Department.

To interview the short listed candidates for this post.

Further to minute 17 (24 July 2013) the Committee interviewed the two short listed candidates for the post of Head of Specialist Services.

It was moved by Councillor Phil Davies, seconded by Councillor Phil Gilchrist and then -

Resolved (unanimously) – That Emma Taylor, currently Divisional Manager, Team around the Family, Halton Borough Council, be appointed to the post of Head of Specialist Services, Families and Wellbeing Department.