Meetings

The minutes of the 5 March Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

It was agreed that Chris Warner would Chair for the first term of the Leadership Board, commencing 16 April.

Manon Antoniazzi commended everyone, and in particular the Bill team, for their work to progress the Law Derived from the European Union (Wales) Bill through the legislation process efficiently and to a high standard, and for its successful debate in plenary on 21 March when it was agreed by the Assembly.

The minutes of the 8 February Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

Progress on actions arising from the previous meeting were given. Three staff meetings had been arranged in the first week of March to discuss the second phase of the capacity review and enable staff to feedback. They would also feed into the work on values and engagement, to be discussed further on 16 April.

The minutes of the 11 January Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

Progress on actions arising from the previous meeting were given:

·                the next steps in the Staff Survey were outlined;

·                progress on the Assembly Commission’s policy on dignity and respect, the help line and distribution of posters. It was noted that Westminster had just launched its strategy on the Dignity and Respect issue;

·                a new approach to setting the 2018-19 Service budgets had been implemented within Services and had been well received. This had provided increased budget flexibility that had meant planned ICT and EFM work could be undertaken before year-end, clearing the way for other priorities next financial year. The service budgets would be reviewed at the Investment and Resources Board (IRB) and return to a Management Board meeting during March; and

·                the implications of holding a Plenary meeting off the Assembly Estate was being explored.

The minutes of the 7 December Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

Progress on actions arising from the previous meeting were given:

·           The Governance team had reviewed the ROAP template, were content that it was fit for purpose generally and that the capacity review ROAP was an isolated case where further information would have been useful. They were not proposing a substantive change;

·           Signage to communicate information on harassment and the Dignity and Respect policy would be considered following the Standard’s Committee consultation on their Inquiry into the Review of the Code of Conduct for Assembly Members; and

·           Inter-related risks had been reviewed and a reframed paper for staff was being jointly prepared by Management Board members.

The minutes of the 13 November Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. An action grid would be circulated following meetings and with meeting papers in future.

Following the staff survey discussion, a document outlining what ‘you said, we did’ would be circulated for the Board’s review; and a discussion on internal communications was scheduled for the Management Board meeting in the new year.

The minutes of the 23 October Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 9 October Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 18 September Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 15 August Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 20 July Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 22 June Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.  The minutes of 6 July required a clarification and would be cleared out of meeting.

The minutes of the 25 May Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of the 4 May Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes will be circulated separately.

The minutes of the 23 March Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The business cases identified at the meeting would be considered by the Investment and Resources Board (IRB) on 11 May, together with the costs and implications for the financial year 2017-18. Suzy Davies AM, Commissioner for budget and governance, would be provided with an update on plans thereafter and a report on staffing matters prepared for the Public Accounts and Finance Committees.

The minutes of the 2 March Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of the 2 February Management Board meeting were agreed subject to an amendment to the wording of the corporate risk relating to the name change consultation.

The minutes of the 12 January Management Board meeting were agreed with the clarification to MySenedd actions, that Non Gwilym would be a standing invitee to the MySenedd Board to improve integration with Communications service planning.

The minutes of 12 December Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. The Board clarified the corporate risk action in relation to preparation of a plan for emerging risks.

The minutes of 14 November Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 3 November Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 10 October Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 14 July Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of the 30 June Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record, excepting a clarification on the wording of item 4.1 relating to sickness absence. 

The minutes of the 12 May Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 14 April Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the Governance Statement session on 22 February were agreed as a correct record

The minutes of the 7 March Management Board meeting were agreed as a correct record. 

The minutes of the 25 January meeting were agreed as a correct record, except a clarification in relation to the HR Dashboard (10.1) where, although Management Board had asked for more data, it had been agreed to keep the report simple. 

The note of 30 November and 7 December planning meetings were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 2 November meeting were agreed as a correct record.

3.1   The minutes of 5 October meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 6 July meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 15 June meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 1 June meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 23 March meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 9 March meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 2 February meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 19 January would be circulated out of meeting for agreement.

The minutes of 17 December Management Board meeting were agreed. The minutes of 8 December would be reviewed and agreed out of meeting in conjunction with the Review and Planning Board meeting minutes of 24 November.

A correction was made to the minutes of 20 October meeting to change ‘icloud’ to ‘the cloud’.

The minutes of 9 October meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 15 September meeting were agreed as a correct record.

The minutes of 14 July meeting were agreed as a correct record.

Paper 1

Several amendments to the minutes of 23 June 2014 were recommended. It was agreed that social media would be revised to a corporate risk with a short term resolution date of September.  It would also be noted that Safeguarding would be made a corporate risk. Anna Daniel agreed to provide clarification for the item on Assembly Member use of resources.