Agenda item

Question from: County Councillor Amanda Jenner Subject: Non critical council services

 

Question From:

County Councillor Amanda Jenner

Subject:

Non critical council services

Question To:

County Councillor Rosemarie Harris, Leader and County Councillor Aled Davies, Portfolio Holder for Finance, Countryside & Transport

 

Question:

 

Is it possible for me to be provided with a complete list of every service which we are not currently providing as a council, as it is not considered a critical service during this COVID period.

 

 

 

Minutes:

Response by the Portfolio Holder:

 

During the CVID19 pandemic the Council is focusing on Business Critical Activities and as well as some other business priorities associated with statutory or contractual obligations:

Responding to Covid-19

  1. Adult Services – implementation of Social Services Business Continuity Plan
  2. Homelessness Service
  3. Public Protection (Enforcement, Contact Tracing, Temporary Body Storage Facility)
  4. Childcare Hubs and Early Years provision for Key Workers and Vulnerable Children
  5. Continuity of Learning Plans

Keeping our communities safe and resilient

  1. Supporting Extremely Vulnerable residents
  2. Support for Businesses
  3. Household Waste - Refuse Collection
  4. Housing – emergency repairs and maintenance
  5. Highways – essential repair and emergency response
  6. Children’s Services – all services, including Safeguarding

Corporate – running the Council

  1. Financial Management and Reporting
  2. Corporate Support Services (including Customer Services, Communications, Workforce, Business Intelligence, ICT, including support for WCCIS)

The table below sets out as at the beginning of June 2020 those activities that are not currently being undertaken by the Council. 

Suspended Activity as at 3 June 2020

Service Area

Provision of receptions to customers

Digital Services

ICT support in office locations

Digital Services

Full provision of responses to information requests

Digital Services

Public Service Board (Board due to meet in June and annual report being prepared)

Transformation and Communications

Vision 2025 Transformation Delivery Board (limited work on overall programme.  Some transformation is continuing e.g. schools and digital)

Transformation and Communications

Public Protection prosecution cases

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Planning enforcement

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Planning complaints

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Planning policy

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Environmental protection – private water supplies

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Food Hygiene routine inspections

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Health and Safety routine interventions

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Community Safety (routine work)

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Civil Contingencies (routine work)

Planning, Property, and Public Protection

Progressing legal Orders for changes to the Definitive Map of public rights of way

Housing and Community Development

Countryside Volunteer programme for management and improvement of public rights of way (urgent risks being managed by PCC officers)

Housing and Community Development

Non-urgent Tree Management (reactive management and tree survey work continues)

Housing and Community Development

Play Equipment

Housing and Community Development

Open water management (reactive work and risk management continues)

Housing and Community Development

School catering (excluding learning hubs)

Housing and Community Development

Corporate catering

Housing and Community Development

Corporate cleaning (on closed buildings, however compliance testing is still being undertaken)

Housing and Community Development

Mobile libraries and delivery service

Housing and Community Development

Wider PCC services delivered through libraries

Housing and Community Development

Libraries – public access to computers, printing, scanning, copying facilities, and internet use

Housing and Community Development

Physical visits by public to archives search room to view records

Housing and Community Development

Physical visits by the public to museums to view exhibitions are displays

Housing and Community Development

Leisure Centres (operated by Freedom Leisure) - however people can access fitness online and via a Freedom Leisure App

Housing and Community Development

Sports Development (staff redeployed to childcare hubs)

Housing and Community Development

Sport Powys (face-to-face suspended but communication and engagement with participants, partners, and participants continues via alternative methods)

Housing and Community Development

Fleet/Pool cars

Highways, Transport, and Recycling

On & off-street parking enforcement

Highways, Transport, and Recycling

Home to school transport (excluding hubs)

Highways, Transport, and Recycling

Road Safety (Education, Training, Publicity)

Highways, Transport, and Recycling

Face to face contact with families, with the exception of CP Visits

Children's Services

Integrated Family Support Team

Children's Services

Short Breaks

Children's Services

Contract Monitoring Visits

Children's Services

New admissions to in house residential care.

Children's Services

Support and parenting groups other than online

Children's Services

Face to face family time has reduced

Children's Services

Partnership Boards

Children's Services

CLA visits to regulatory placements

Children's Services

Day Centres for elderly/disabled.

Adult Social Care

Priority 2 Domiciliary Care Visits

Adult Social Care

Quality Assurance peer audits

Adult Social Care

Finance Transformation Programme (some elements are being progressed)

Finance

Registrars – registering births

Legal and Democratic Services

Registrars – registering marriage

Legal and Democratic Services

Civil Ceremonies

Legal and Democratic Services

Public examinations

Education

Face to face learning

Education

Open Access Youth Club

Education

Youth Worker in Schools

Education

Holiday Programme of Activities

Education

Apprentice Programme

Workforce and Organisational Development

Workforce Development Programme

Workforce and Organisational Development

Leadership Development

Workforce and Organisational Development

 

The Council has started to plan for recovery and is working on short term plans to re-open/re-start key services such as outdoor sports courts, outdoor markets and public transport and to ensure the safe reopening of PCC premises at the appropriate time.  We are also considering how to embed good practice we have developed through the pandemic period into our recovery phase.

The Council’s GOLD command reviews the Business Critical Services and Suspended activities following each Welsh Government lockdown review.  An announcement of any changes following the next of these is expected on 19 June, so this list will be reviewed and if necessary updated on Monday 22 June 2020.