Issue - meetings

To consider the interim head of corporate services’ report. 

Cabinet considered the interim head of corporate services’ report.  This proposed a new policy on the council publicly supporting social issues and campaigns. 

The Cabinet member for community engagement reported that the proposed policy would provide a sound and justifiable basis for the council to publicly support a wide range of events, religious festivals and social issues, in a way that was sensitive to its residents’ beliefs and opinions, and in a way that was proportionate to the rest of the council’s external communications.  The policy would help to ensure the council was focusing its support on the events and issues most aligned to the council’s adopted priorities.  It would also help to explain why the council had chosen to promote one issue but not another. 

Cabinet supported the proposed policy and the systematic approach to ensuring that the events the council supported were aligned with the council’s corporate priorities. 

RESOLVED: to

(a)       adopt the policy on the council’s support for social issues and campaigns, as appended to the interim head of corporate services’ report to Cabinet on 28 May 2021;

(b)       agree to incorporate dates relating to diversity and inclusion into a broader calendar of events to accompany this policy, as set out in option 3 in the interim head of corporate services’ report; and

(c)    authorise the interim head of corporate services, in consultation with the Cabinet member for community engagement, to finalise the draft list of dates, subject to any final amendments, in consultation with other Cabinet members.