Issue - meetings

To raise awareness of, and provide an update on, Essex County Council’s new Essex Family Friendly Employers Charter.

That the contents of the report be noted.

Cabinet gave consideration to a report of the Partnerships Portfolio Holder (A.4) which sought to raise awareness of, and provide an update on, Essex County Council’s new Essex Family Friendly Employers Charter.

It was reported that the Essex Family Friendly Employers Charter was a set of principles that the employer must meet in order to demonstrate they were a family friendly employer.

Those principles focused on the following areas:-

1)      Family Friendly Strategy and Culture

2)      Flexible Working

3)      Annual Leave and Supporting Parents outside of term time

Cabinet was informed that this Council had been accredited as an Essex Family Friendly Employer which supported the Council being an employer of choice and which also demonstrated best practice as a local Anchor organisation.

Having considered the contents of the report:-

It was moved by Councillor McWilliams, seconded by Councillor Talbot and:-

RESOLVED that the contents of the report be noted.