Agenda item

Report of the Managing Director.

The Cabinet Member with the Resources Portfolio introduced the report of the Managing Director (previously circulated) requesting that consideration be given to reviewing the progress and performance of Xentrall Shared Services, the Stockton and Darlington Partnership.

The submitted report stated that Xentrall Shared Services, the Stockton and Darlington Partnership, was established in May 2008 and was now in its twelfth year; the agreement covered ICT (strategy and operations), Transactional HR, Transactional Finance and Design and Print; the initial savings that were identified were £7.4 m over a ten year period; and that those savings had been achieved plus additional efficiencies and benefits totalling £17.2m of savings; quality and performance of services had improved; and that in recognition of the success of the partnership it had been amended from the original ten year period into an on-going rolling agreement

RESOLVED - That the report be noted and the continuing success of Xentrall Shared Services and the £17.2m savings it had achieved over the twelve years since it was formed, be acknowledged.

REASON - To allow Members to receive information about the progress of the partnership.