Decision details

The Committee considered the recommendations of the Shared Services Joint Committee at its meeting on 25 April 2025 in relation to the future arrangements for Libraries Shared Services and Cheshire Rural Touring Arts.

It was proposed that the Libraries Shared Services move from the shared service model to a managed service and the Cheshire Rural Touring Arts move to strategic partnership arrangement, in accordance with the decision of the Shared Servies Joint Committee in June 2022.

A friendly amendment was proposed and accepted in relation to recommendation 3 to include the wording “in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Corporate Policy Committee”.

RESOLVED (unanimously): That the Committee

1               approve the changes to the shared services in accordance with the Shared Services Review, as set out in the report of the Shared Services Joint Committee of 17 June 2022.

2               approve the proposed managed service and strategic partnership arrangements and principle of the revised Administration Agreement.

3        delegate authority to the Executive Director Place and Executive Director Resources (S151), in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Corporate Policy Committee, to jointly implement the final transition to the separate arrangements including completion of the necessary legal agreements with Cheshire West and Chester Council.