1. Apologies for Absence and Personal Matters.
2. Declaration by Members of any Personal Interests.
3. To receive and consider the minutes of the Personnel Committee Meeting held on 19 January 2009 (PDF, 66kb)
4. To receive the Annual Chaplains Report (PDF, 40kb)
5. To receive a report on Health and Wellbeing (PDF, 42kb)
6. To receive an update  report on Wholetime Firefighter Recruitment 2009 (PDF, 96kb)
7. To receive a report on the Safer Valleys Project – Phase one Recruitment (PDF, 52kb)
8. To receive a report on Working Time Regulations (European Working Time Directive (WTD)) (PDF, 119kb)
9. To receive a report on the Risk Critical Training and Assessment Training (PDF, 44kb)
10. To receive a report on Holidays and Sick Pay (PDF, 51kb)
11. To receive a report on the All Wales Procurement Project (PDF, 54kb)
12. To receive the Corporate Risk Department Report – Health & Safety Management (PDF, 293kb)
13. Any other items of business that by reason of special circumstances, the Chair decides should be considered as a matter of urgency pursuant to Section 100(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 197214.
14. The reports relating to the following items are not for publication as they contain exempt information as defined in paragraphs 12 and 13 of Part 4 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) (Wales) Order 2007.
    
    

    If, following the application of the Public Interest Test, the Committee resolves pursuant to the Act to consider these items in private, the public will be excluded from the meeting during such consideration.
    The Public Interest Test in this matter is:-
    
    “The reports relate to the possible early retirement of employees and consequential departmental restructuring. To make this information public would disclose personal data relating to individuals in contravention of the principles of the Data Protection Act. The public interest in disclosure is therefore outweighed by the public interest in maintaining confidentiality.”
    
    It is RECOMMENDED that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.  
    

15. To receive a report on the Re-Alignment Of Procurement, Purchasing, Distribution And Supply  Department
16. To receive a report on the Review of the Service’s Support Structure
    
    
    Immediately following the meeting, Members will receive a short presentation on ‘Service Working Arrangements’
    
    

A T Howells
Clerk to the Fire Authority
2 March 2009