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A report from the Director of Finance, Resources and Customer Services is attached. This seeks agreement to the arrangements for taking forward the Council’s IT offer. (Key decision – reference number 4314)

(Report No.32)

(8.05 – 8.10 pm)

Councillor Dino Lemonides (Cabinet Member for Finance and Efficiency) introduced the report of the Director of Finance, Resources and Customer Services (No.32) setting out proposals for taking forward Enfield Council’s IT offer.

NOTED

1.               That recommendation 2.1.5 of the report was being amended to read: “That a business case is brought back to Cabinet for approval prior to the Company commencing trading once established and the board is in place” (decision 5 below reflects this amendment).

2.               The reasons for setting up the proposed company and the potential benefits to the Council as outlined in the report.

3.               That the Board of the ICT Company should comprise 4 Cabinet Members, rather than 3 as detailed in the report. Those 4 Members to be Councillors Georgiou, Lemonides, Orhan and Sitkin.

4.               That Councillor Lemonides would be undertaking further work in the future with appropriate officers in considering the Council’s companies which now existed, their establishment and membership; and, whether an umbrella company would be beneficial.

Alternative Options Considered: NOTE the alternative options that had been considered as set out in full in section 4 of the report: Do nothing; do the minimum i.e. to restructure the ICT team only; or, exploit ICT using restructured ICT team.

DECISION: Cabinet agreed to

1.               Note the progress made since its February meeting on the development of the Enfield 2017 transformation offer.

2.               The establishment of the IT company.

3.               The governance model set out in the report.

4.               Note that in parallel to the establishment of the new trading company, the Council’s ICT team would be restructured in order to put in place the correct structure and skills needed to manage the services being transferred in from Serco, and ensure that Enfield’s IT team was a good place to work, with excellent career opportunities.

5.               That a business case be brought back to Cabinet for approval prior to the Company commencing trading once established and the board was in place.

Reason: NOTED the detailed for the recommendations set out in section 5 of the report: the Council had developed as part of the Enfield 2017 programme intellectual property rights (IPR) to the IT supporting the transformation. This IPR could be used to generate a potential income to the Council, when software using that IPR was sold on to other councils.   

(Key decision – reference number 4314)