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1 Apologies for Absence

So welcome everyone and if we could kick off with apologies for absence.
There are no apologies this evening.

2 Declarations of Interest

Terrific, no apologies and if we could have any declarations of interest.
Ah, Councillor Shrew.
Thank you. I just wanted to mention that I'm a founder member of Incredible Edible Chariton
which is mentioned in the carbon reduction plan.
Okay, thank you very much. Duly noted. No other declarations of interest. Then we'll
move on to item three which is the minutes. Any issues or corrections, problems, amendments
with the minutes.

3 Minutes

4 District Wide Carbon Plan

I wonder if I could have a proposer to accept the minutes.
Councillor Prater to propose.
Councillor Blakemore to second.
All those in favour, please indicate.
Thank you very much.
I will sign the minutes.
And we move to our first substantive item,
item four, the District -Wide Carbon Plan,
pages 13 to 64 in your pack.
and we are being led through this by Councillor Scopram.
I didn't expect we'd get to item four quite that quickly,

5 Equality and Diversity annual report 2025

but we're doing well.
This is an important report and one which I'm really pleased to introduce.

4 District Wide Carbon Plan

It's taken a long time to produce
and it's been a real challenge to incorporate and respond to 2 ,500 comments.
James Wilderspin, sitting on my left, has done a huge amount of work
and picked up on the earlier work that was done.
It was in train when I came to post two and a half years ago.
So the purpose of the plan.
The purpose of the plan is to identify a set of actions aimed at reducing carbon emissions
across the entire district.
And it stems from the 2019 climate and ecological emergency which this council declared and
it committed us to working towards net zero emissions for our own operations and estates
by 2030 and secondly developing a strategy for leadership in the local community to promote
carbon reduction and reduce emissions.
So the first objective, the objective around our own net zero emissions remains unchanged.
The report focuses on the second objectives, namely a leadership role in the journey to
net zero.
That's now explored in great detail in the report in front of you.
There are just a few points which it might be useful if I highlighted.
One is that the council's only responsible for a very small fraction of the district's emissions
and it has no direct control when it comes to the vast majority of emissions.
Our emissions are calculated at 0 .4 % of the district's.
So obviously the focus of attention has to be on the wider community.
Good news. The good news is that emissions,
according to the studies that we've been able to access,
have been dropping steadily since 2005,
at a rate of about 2 .5 % each year.
So that's an achievement that's worth noting
and we're going in the right direction.
The trouble is that we're not going fast enough.
In order to limit global temperature rise to the 1 .5 degrees,
which was agreed in the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement,
we need to reduce our own emissions in this district
by just over 13 % a year,
and that will need to be maintained.
So that is actually a huge change from the 2 .5 that we're already doing.
And it's going to be challenging, there's absolutely no doubt about it.
So, based on the studies which particularly relate to this district, the plan establishes
2041 as an ambitious but realistic target for the district to achieve net zero.
And the consultation that was responded to by about 450 people indicates that this date
is regarded as reasonable by local residents.
And that's important because local residents are going to be absolutely central to delivering
it.
The plan itself sets out 54 actions spread across five pillars or areas such as transport
and housing which have the biggest emission and therefore represent the best opportunities,
the lowest hanging fruit as it were.
And the success of the plan, and this is something I really welcome in it, depends on us working
collaboratively and inclusively.
So there is a powerful statement on social justice and equality
and the importance of involving everybody in different ways
according to what they can do and what is appropriate.
There's also a commitment in the report which I very much welcome
and I'll speak to later regarding progress on reporting regularly
and transparently so that we keep this very firmly in mind.
Finally, the thing to note is the plan we have before us is a draught,
so it's not yet finalised.
Every action that we can take makes a difference.
A bit like Tesco's or whatever it is, advert, every penny counts,
every action counts.
We may not get to the target, but if we don't have a target,
we don't have something to head for.
So I think that's an important point to note.
And the other point which I really think is important
is we need to do our fair share and the 13 % reduction is our fair share.
So when we hear that it doesn't make any difference what we do etc etc.
Well we ought to be doing our bit just as the county ought to be doing its bit.
Kent County Council has a responsibility as a council to do its bit.
We have a responsibility as a district to do our bit.
So I'd like to move the recommendations.
I won't read them all out but basically I'd like to note the report, adopt 2041 as the
target date for net zero and to give delegated authority for minor amendments following this
meeting.
Thank you very much Councillor Scufflin.
I would very much like to second the report and thank you personally for your input into
this report.
I know that the officers have all worked very hard
and we have drawn upon a very strong level of expertise,
but I know that this is a particular passion of yours
and I would like to formally thank you
for all of your input into this.
Thank you very much.
Right, no problem at all.
Very, very happy to open it up
for any questions or comments.
Councillor Butcher.
Thanks Chair. It is really good to see this.
I think Stephen in Lobbish it has taken a while to get here.
I think it was in my first overview in Scrutiny back in June 23,
you were there Stephen presenting.
I think it is worth just noting the sense of the importance of the topic,
the urgency of the topic and our means of addressing it
can seem kind of out of whack with what actually the kind of pace that's required.
I think it's great to see it brought together like this is a very informative document.
I love the infographic on page 19.
I think it's a really, really helpful way to get your head around what the report covers.
It would be great to see that across other reports.
As Stephen emphasised, the leadership role that the council needs to pay to get to know
and that is reflected, it's there in the infographic,
our greatest strength is influence.
Elsewhere in the report it talks about,
we're going to leverage this role of influence
to encourage local businesses, etc.
Securing funds requires cross -sector partnerships.
The council will take a leading role
in encouraging local businesses and so on and so on.
I think what's less clear to me is what that leadership role
looks like in practise.
So yes, there are those kind of 54 actions set out,
but I was less clear what does us being a leader actually look like?
What forums will we engage in?
What partnerships will we create to be a really visible leader?
Because I think that's a really significant thing for the community businesses
to see visible leadership.
So I would like to see that thought through a bit.
And I guess when it comes to those 54 actions,
that just to me seems... I mean how realistic is that to say we're going to commit ourselves
to 54 actions? It seems a tad unlikely to me that it feels as if it was a next step
to assess those against the impact they're likely to have and their feasibility to have
a kind of crisper set of actions, perhaps an annual set of actions that we really commit
ourselves to, hold ourselves account to, so that there's some kind of credible plan year
by year to do what we can. I'm not sure that's going to amount to achieving whatever it was,
13 % reductions each year, but I think it's better, however modest we have to be about
what we can do to commit, really clearly these are the actions we're going to take. I think
bit vague one of them says just says support hubs and the number of active
hubs supported and we know what that means another says facilitate town
centre regeneration with a measure of number of completed regeneration
projects which I found a little bit alarming I thought one of those was
probably enough to be going on with and a bit about showing up local supply
chains again I'm not really clear what that means so it just feels like there's
another stage of Christmas and charity to be achieved.
But it's fantastic to see all this work brought together,
very, very informative as it explores the whole era of climate change.
So I really appreciate the work that's gone into this. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Councillor Butcher.
Councillor Scroffulne, would you like to come back on any of those?
I think that's very helpful. Thank you very much, Councillor Butcher.
I think that an annual set of actions would be very useful
as a next step. I think that the 54 actions in the report might be regarded as opportunities
because this is an area that we do not have control over so it's clearly going to flexibility
and being able to respond to circumstances is important. Maybe there will be 55 actions
and other things will come through the door and certainly they will but it's a road map.
It's a road map that sets us in the right direction. I was going to, if I can continue
on this. I was going to suggest in making the amendments that we ask that we report
annually to overview and scrutiny on the way in which the report is being implemented and
developed and that will give us a chance to keep it very much in focus and those priorities
if we have an annual action plan that would be, or an annual set of priorities as it were,
then that might be a very useful addition. And the other thing I was going to suggest
was that the actions themselves could very usefully be keyed into and referenced to the
Sustainable Development Goals, because they all do, and referencing them to Sustainable
Development Goals would strengthen the report.
It would chime with the corporate plan structure so that we're beginning to get joined up.
So what the corporate plan is based on is also what this report is based on, and we
that very visually explicit by putting the icons against the actions.
I think that would be a useful thing to do.
So thank you for giving me that opportunity to make those points.
I think anything that then refers back to our corporate plan
is a very positive thing to do.
So I would wholeheartedly support that.
I'll come round that way, probably, if you don't mind.
Mike, please. Councillor Broughton.
Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to say on moving the target for net zero from 2030 to
2041 and acknowledging that some people will be disappointed by that. They'll see that
as us taking the pressure off on trying to achieve that target. But I do think we have
to be realistic about it. To achieve it within five or six years is not realistic. And 2041,
if that's what we're told is achievable, although even that's hugely ambitious, then I think
it's right that we have a realistic target, but also echoing what's being said that we
have plans, actions, objectives, targets that we can demonstrate progress towards that in
the time that we have to do so.
But it's a great report, it draws together an awful lot of really, really useful information
and I'm really, really pleased to see it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Councillor Scrogg.
Just to come and sort of pick up on that, I think that is a very interesting point about
communications which you're raising.
The 2030 date remains.
The 2030 date is attached to our own operations.
The 2441 target is for the district and there never has been a target for the district.
So trying to make that clear, so there's no abandoning a target, there's simply tightening
up the second part of the 2019 emergency declaration to give it a target and that's the figure
that we've come up with as the best, the most ambitious but realistic target we could select.
But if we can get that across in the communications I think we need to note that. Thank you.
Thank you. Councillor Brightmoor.
Thank you.
Councillor Scoffram referred to the responsibility that KCC also has to, on this front, in order
to reach these targets.
In the report there's a commitment to work with the County Council on the climate adaptation
programme, which is quite interesting in the context of them having withdrawn their climate
change emergency declaration recently.
But I was also thinking about the... in terms of influence
and how that works in the public transport arena
and how we get our...
you know, our need to improve public transport across...
and how we do that in the terms of the organisation
that is coming down the track.
And the...
I guess it's the lobbying function that we have
and I think we're doing a bit of that
by the district focus group on busses
and raising up the agenda.
But it's just that we've got 38 % of emissions
are coming from road transport
and the importance of getting people out of their private cars
and onto public transport
or onto other forms of active travel
is more important than ever now.
And I think we're making some progress on active travel
but public transport is lagging bus services,
let's face it, is what we're talking about here,
lagging so far behind that it's just got to look at a way of getting that further up the
agenda.
The other bit that I was a bit concerned to read about that on the current trajectory
our district carbon budget could be exhausted by 2026 which is around the corner so I was
a little bit alarmed by that a little bit of meat on the bones around that would be
helpful to understand as well.
Thank you.
Councillor Scuffling or oh James.
James?
Yeah, no, it's a good point.
So the original budget was set using 2015 baseline data, and so getting the up -to -date
data from 2023 corresponding with that means that we're going off on a sharp tangent.
And so for the original budget that would have been exceeded.
But the way it's worked in the last five or six years is that there's a new set of policy
about how much budget every district can have,
and it's aligned with central government policy.
And that gives us a little bit more wiggle room
in the next five to 10 years to get,
I think, more than halfway through our budget,
but it gives us enough time to sharply decline
that trajectory and then get back on target.
Council Scott and I have discussed that.
It's not clear.
It's a bit of a, we can either go one way or the other
with how we set the budget.
And so talking about the last budget
might not be helpful in terms of clarity about what we have left.
So we can try and clear that up for the...
Very good.
Any other questions or query?
A case from the conference.
Thank you.
Yeah, no, very...
Sorry.
Very, very delighted to finally see this come together.
It feels like a very long time ago when it sat on a climate working group.
and it was about 2019, 2020, we were quite quick out of the blocks as a council to identify
our own impact, if you like, and developing that early carbon action plan with regards
to our own assets and resources and what we can do.
The big question was how can we influence the district, I think.
Councillors at Wairarow and other past Councillors with Adrian and other officers and that was
the real big question like what can we realistically do.
So I know it's taken a long time and the work of the Carbon Innovation Lab and all the Sustainable
Future Forums events and all that, they've all been really positive and to bring it to
this is great and I just think we need to keep that momentum up.
I think it's a tricky time for the climate conversation locally, nationally and globally.
So, I think things like this, they need to keep coming and keep it in the forefront,
because otherwise it could be quite easily washed over very, very quickly and very, very soon.
I don't want to go into ins and outs of the thing, but just to pick up on what Polly said,
it did strike me as a little bit of, with sustainable transport, just in terms of key partners,
that Stagecoach wasn't listed.
Obviously, I think we've been doing a lot of work with Stagecoach with the levelling
up work.
I'd imagine we've got quite a really good, much better relationship than we would have
had with them before we started this levelling up work.
So I would imagine that they should be a key partner if we're trying to look at more sustainable
local transport in the area.
Thanks.
Councillor Scoville, would you like to come back on that?
I just really welcome all these comments and feedback.
I think it's very helpful.
Councillor Baitmore, I may be a little bit more optimistic
about working with KCC than I was,
having had conversations with some of the officers
and indeed some of the elected representatives
that it isn't exactly impossible
and that maybe there's some common ground here
because the conversations I've had
do recognise that climate change is a problem.
I think the question is the tactics and the way that the county goes about it
is on a political level, is one where we may have difficulties.
But I think there are opportunities.
And one of the things I'd say is that the report itself chimes...
James, you'll be able to help me a little bit with this,
but it chimes and is entirely congruent with the KCC plan,
which is dated 2023, isn't it?
Do you want to just add to that?
Yes, that's true. So the original Tindall Centre budget for Kent was also aligned.
So when this report was started before my time, that was the catalyst for it
and that was the budget that Kent set and we aligned with to come up with our trajectory.
So it's adopting what Kent has been working on for the last five years
and trying to include our fair share as part of that bigger picture.
And what about the point of Stagecoach being a partner?
Conversations with Stagecoach, yes please, let's do it.
It's a conversation that I've not been having.
Councillor Blakemore maybe you could invite me to join in a little bit more?
Not that you haven't, not that you should have been, but give me the opportunities to
join in as appropriate.
I think that's a really good idea that we should draw you in because I think something
that we have achieved over the past two and a half years is really upping those conversations
and those contacts with the stagecoach and via various forums. So yeah, a lot of it is
about getting the services up and running but I'm sure we can work on them with their
own missions as well.
Councillor Prater.
Thank you. Firstly, as there have been a number of references to Kent County Council, I'm
now going to just declare an interest as a Kent County Councillor. People keep using
the phrase and hopefully provide some reassurance despite the administration's wacky decision
to undeclare their commitment to net zero. What they are claiming to do is that they
are instead concentrating on energy efficiency and broadly, if you read that in terms of
the paperwork which went to the Environment and Transport Cabinet Committee last for this
time last week, that translated into an energy efficiency plan to replace their net zero
plan.
Those of us who then read the energy efficiency plan and went through it in some detail and
asked questions on that christened it the not the net zero, we can't believe this is
not the net zero plan, because it is broadly the same thing with a different cover, although
tragically I don't believe that they recycled the old cover.
I think that the, what they would claim is that what the energy efficiency plan is much
the same thing although it removes commitment to spending money simply on chasing net zero
to which the response is which council anywhere has put in money chasing net zero that didn't
have some variety of business plan return.
We certainly haven't, KCC certainly haven't.
It's a means to an end and almost any expenditure that we're making,
or any plan that we're making, has a business case to do so,
even if sometimes that is driven by targets and financial penalties
which will be seen elsewhere.
So for instance in terms of waste, we know that recycling is increasingly
financially favourable to recycle because of the financial penalties
that if you don't.
And therefore there is a financial imperative in doing so alongside
to be environmentally imperative. But the energy efficiency plan is worth reading in
that context. Although they will claim no longer to be a partner in this stuff at a
political level, administratively the same messages are there, they have just been dressed
in a different way in order to meet a political target. So I hope there is still, I totally
agree with Stephen there is some scope there working with the
officers at KCC and working with the efficiency plan that would be helpful.
I do have a question as well which I'm sure that Stephen can answer either directly off
the bat or on Spinnet. I'm entirely upset that this is the 2041 plan for the district
and not our own operations as he's made that clear and it's the first time that this date
has been given so clearly by this Council and I really recognise that.
It's great to have that target.
As he mentioned though, in the first part when we first passed the climate change emergency
in June 2019, and a great meeting that was, Susan wasn't here that day, Tim Madden was,
we might have asked a different declaration if Susan had been here that day.
We may certainly have done it in a different way. However, a number of us were delighted
with the outturn and the way that we managed to get that translated into policy in a way
which was possibly unexpected to some in the room. But that did commit this council to
its operation, to aiming for net zero risk operations by 2030 as Stephen said earlier.
Where are we on that please? Are we going to hit that target?
I might defer to James on the actions that you are taking around there,
but one of the things which I can tell you is that getting the data that we need
to show the progress that you are making has proved problematic
because the various services and so on within the Council
collect data using a different set of criteria.
So having a common set of criteria and a common base
is proving a challenge for James, and he'll probably pick up the storey.
Not much to add than that.
Yeah, since I've started here, I've been working on trying to put together the data
and find a clear way to express it, including our housing and our fleet and everything like that.
I've got a general sense of it, and I've got a general sense that it's declining,
but I can't give accurate numbers.
I'm coming to OSC in March, at the beginning of March, with an update,
and I hope to have some harder numbers by then.
But yeah, I haven't got a carbon footprint for the council at this stage.
I'm delighted to say that at least administratively by May 2028 we should be carbon neutral.
Excellent.
If there are no other questions or contributions, we have a proposer.
We have a seconder.
All those in favour, please indicate.
Thank you very much Members.

5 Equality and Diversity annual report 2025

Moving on to Item 5 which is our Equality and Diversity Annual Report and we're going
to be led through this by Councillor Mike Blakemore.
Thank you Chair.
I'm delighted to introduce the Equality and Diversity Report.
We're required to publish this information annually and I'm very glad that we do so
because it always provides a fascinating snapshot of our district and our workforce as well
as highlighting actions and achievements promoting quality, diversity and inclusion.
This year these include delivering 23 new affordable homes and adapting 264 council
homes for disabled tenants, continuing partnering with Porch Light and Rainbow Centre to provide
emergency accommodation and long -term housing solutions.
We established a youth forum during this period, giving young people aged 14 to 19 a chance
to help shape the future of their district.
We've continued engaging with the community through a growing number of wellness events
and initiatives such as the District Food Network.
We've implemented the Safer Streets project, and we've celebrated diversity through multicultural
cultural events and we also launched the Excellence in Volunteering Awards in June 2024. Members
are asked to note this report to consider and approve the draught Equality and Diversity
Annual Report. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Councillor Breaknell, you left off the community forum that was
recently held in the Chamber which I attended and Arthur was brilliant, I mean just absolutely
brilliant. Yeah quite right chair, not within the period of this report of course, but it is worth
noting that the number of partners that we have and the community safety part which has broadened
very much to embrace wellness as well as community safety is more narrow sense has grown from 38 in
in April 24 to more than 290 now.
And that's a really, really powerful network
of community partners that we support,
we engage with, we work closely with.
Thank you very much.
So it gives us a very positive direction of travel, I think.
So I'm very, very happy to second your proposal
and open it up for debate and discussion.
Such a comprehensive report. Oh, Councillor Butcher.
Sorry, yes, just to welcome the report and maybe observe that when we talk about things like diversity,
equality, inclusion, often there can be a bit of a allergic reaction to that in some
quarters and I think what's really powerful about this report is, these are not about
empty words, they're about real concrete changes that have been made in people's lives, making
a real difference if you think about the homes that have been built and so on.
So I think it's really good to see what those values mean that turned into something important
and valuable in people's lives.
And just a comment and as reference to community hubs in folks in Hyde and Romney Marsh and
just to say that there is conversations going on in Hawkins to try and create a community
hub there and it would be lovely to see that added to that list so that we've got somewhere
in every part of the district that's providing those kind of valuable services.
Thank you very much.
Does anyone else have any questions or comments to make?
I think it's an excellent report
and gives us all great motivation to move forward.
So we have a proposal and Councillor Blakemore,
I second it.
All those in favour, please indicate.
Thank you very much everyone.
So we move on to item six,

6 Information Management Framework

which is information management framework,
pages 117 to 178,
and will be led through this, thankfully, by Councillor Gary Fuller.
Thankfully? Oh dear, I'm not sure about that.
Okay first of all I'd like to thank Jonathan and his team for rebuilding this framework
from the ground up effectively. The aim of the framework is to ensure that the Council
manages information securely, lawfully of course and efficiently, and make sure that
there's clear accountability when it comes to the management of information and who's
responsible for ensuring it's secure and so on.
It also talks about training and government processes and how we manage breaches and audits
and so on.
It's fundamental to our compliance with things like GDPR and the Date Protection Act and
and ensuring that, just to give an example,
that we don't fall foul of things like data breaches and so on.
For example, last year IBM reported that the average cost of a data breach in the UK
was roughly 4 .5 million US dollars.
So it's really fundamental that we know how we're going to manage information
and that we're sure we do so safely and with responsibility,
responsibility, not just from the point of view of our residents who we obviously want
to ensure that we are keeping their information safe and so on, but also from the point of
view of financially because there's significant costs involved in getting this wrong.
So thank you to Jonathan for the reworking and I propose the recommendation to note the
report and to approve the updated framework.
Thank you very much, Councillor Fuller. I'm very, very happy to second the report and
just congratulate you on helping all of us, I think, through what is a fairly complicated
topic for me in particular. But very, very happy to open it for questions or comments
from anyone.
Councillor Butcher.
I was at the very last page, the Easy Read Information Management Framework, I think
is such a good example of something that's intended to help people with particular needs
but actually is useful for absolutely everybody and I'd love to see something like this on
all our documents and committee reports because it's just really good to understand.
So thank you.
Councillor Fuller, can you accept this comment?
I'm going to do it myself actually because I've been banging that drum for the past couple of years
and Jonathan has delivered as it were.
No, I'm really pleased to see that as well because it just makes that information much more accessible
and having just dealt with our equality and diversity and so on, it's those kind of things that are fundamental.
So, yeah, thank you for mentioning it and I'm annoyed at myself that I didn't.
Well, rest assured, Councillor Fuller, that Councillor Butcher is very, very up on infographics
and accessible information.
So that is indeed a compliment.
Councillor Proater, were you indicating?
Yeah, thank you.
I was, James beat me to it.
The swine happens a lot.
I also thought the Easy Read version was very helpful, not just for those who find reading
difficult but for cabinet members in particular. I thought it was a significantly more accessible
version than the main version of the report and I thank you for it. So I actually have
a very clear understanding of where people can use now through that one -pager. More of
those particularly for cabinet members. But I was also going to say how important obviously
this is to get right and not only for the strategy to be right, because getting a strategy
right is one thing, but then to enact it and to use it. We've seen examples in the last
year of the devastation it causes financially to organisations where you get this wrong
and whereby you don't secure your data and whereby where it is breached. So, yeah, Marks
and Spencers, the co -op, Land Rover, Land Rover still are not making cars. They haven't
been for months and it is dragging down a large chunk of the West Midlands economy because
they got this stuff wrong, because they didn't have the right things in place, they didn't
the right management of their data in place and the right security in place.
Ours would be, you know, when councils are hitting this in that way, the impacts are
different but they are also significant on the residents of the area as well as the organisation,
as well as the council itself.
So it's really important that we do this right.
The strategy for doing so is the opening point of that, making sure that it is fit for purpose
because the environment we were in five years ago is not the environment we're in now.
And we're going to have to keep doing this
because it won't be the environment we're in five years time as well,
so skipping it under review.
But I think it's a really good strategy.
Absolutely endorse the point about appendix 4,
and well done for Gary after two and a half years
of getting a single side of A4 that he's been looking for all the time.
Thank you very much. You can, Sir Fuller.
Yeah, just to come on with that, I totally agree.
Obviously, beyond that, there's a reason why data protection, data breaches are so high in our risk register.
We can't afford to get this wrong. It's as simple as that.
And also, we're in an environment now, especially around things like phishing emails,
where people are effectively trying to convince you that they're someone they're not.
There's a lot more use of AI and so on, large language models and so on,
to make that easier to do for criminals and so on.
And so we are actually going to see more attempts to, even more I should say,
attempts to access information that people don't have a right to access.
And so this is absolutely fundamental and we can't get this wrong.
Couldn't go on more.
So are there any more questions or contributions?
I'll cancel the conference.
Just quickly.
Yeah, just to say it's a very good piece of work.
It's a lot less cumbersome than the previous versions.
It's much easier to go through, even
if you go through the normal one and not the easy read one.
But just a big shout out to Gary and all the team behind this,
because it is obviously working.
Over four years of looking at performance reports,
The first quarter of this year was the first time
I've ever seen a performance report
where we look at this area where everything is green.
So the training, everything that's going on
behind the scenes with officers
to help support the staff is obviously working.
So well done, and hopefully we keep it going.
Oh, can I simplify that?
Yeah, just to say thank you for that,
and obviously I can't really claim much credit.
It's all down to Jonathan and his team
and the excellent work that they're doing.
So yeah, just keep up the great work.
Thank you very much.
So just in the sort of sharing the love,
thank you very much, Jonathan,
and your team for all your hard work.
We realised this evening that it's not all,
Councillor Fuller, but.
Just say that too.
No, but thank you very much for all of your hard work.
It is hugely appreciated.
So, Councillors, we have a proposer,
I seconded.
All those in favour, please indicate.
Super, thank you very much everyone.
And that concludes the business of the cabinet this evening.
So thank you all very much for your attendance
and your input.
Thank you.