Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

The Leader of the Council welcomed Tanya Clancy from Military Civil Integration to the meeting and invited her to provide a presentation on the Community Covenant for Wales. 

                        Ms. Clancy provided a detailed presentation on the following areas:-

• The aim of the Community Covenant
• Making the Covenant Count
• Who has signed?
• Myth v Fact
• Service Leavers
• Community Covenant Grants

The Leader of the Council thanked Ms. Clancy for the informative presentation.  The Chief Executive said that the covenant template would need development to move it forward for Flintshire.  The Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Enterprise and Leisure spoke of the need to ensure that Flintshire County Council employees who had made a commitment to the Territorial Army were able to fulfil their requirement to train when needed.      

Ms. Clancy responded to a series of questions from Cabinet Members. 

            The Leader of the Council referred to a Notice of Motion which had been submitted to County Council for an Armed Forces Day in Flintshire and the commitment by local government to provide a North Wales event.  He asked that his thanks be passed on to Sharron Jones for the work undertaken to date on the establishment of an Armed Forces Day in Flintshire which had been arranged for 22 June 2013; further information would be shared at a later date.  He said that this would reaffirm the commitment to the Armed Forces and he looked forward to a successful event later in the year.     

            The Leader of the Council asked that an additional recommendation be included that a Champion for Armed Forces Community Covenant be appointed and suggested that this should be the Leader of the Council.   Following a discussion it was agreed to recommend to County Council that responsibility for the Community Covenant and Armed Forces issues sit within the portfolio of the Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance.  

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the presentation be received; and

(b)       That the following be recommended to the County Council meeting on 29 January 2013:-

i.          the adoption of a Community Covenant for Flintshire

ii.         the signatories as proposed

iii.        the launch of the Community Covenant

iv.        that the responsibility for the Community Covenant and Armed Forces issues sit within the portfolio of the Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance.