Decision details

Deborah Barrow, Head of Human Resources attended and presented the Corporate Human Resources Health Check report for the year 2015/16.

It was reported that the Corporate Human Resources key metrics regularly monitor and report against workforce data including sickness absence; the numbers of starters and leavers; reasons for leaving; redeployment activity; vacancy numbers and recruitment costs.

The data highlights for the year 2015/16 were reported as:

·  The number of FTE days lost per employee due to sickness was 10.7, compared to 10.5 in 2014/15, with the top three reasons for absence being mental health (23%), medical/dental/hospital (21%) and musculoskeletal (11%).

·  The number of starters decreased by 13.9% in 2015/16 compared with 2014/15.

·  The number of leavers was up by 21.2% in 2015/16 compared with 2014/15, with the main reasons for leaving being voluntary resignation, voluntary redundancy and end of fixed term contract.

·  Turnover increased from 11% in 2014/15 to 14% in 2015/16.

·  The number of recruitment adverts decreased by 29.7% in 2015/16 compared with 2014/15.

Members noted that information regarding the new starts onto all employment programmes was provided separately within the Corporate Performance report.

Resolved: - That the report now presented be noted.