Issue - meetings

Item GP 14/22 referred from General Purposes Committee minutes of 13 November 2014

Item GP 14/22 referred from General Purposes Committee minutes of 13 November 2014

RESOLVED:  That the recommendations at Minute GP 14/22 be approved.

The report of the Central Services Director updated the Committee on the use of social media sites by the Council and presented for approval a draft policy providing a framework for staff to follow when using social media for business purposes.  It was noted that the Social Media Policy had been developed in consultation with staff and incorporated comments made by Joint Employee Consultative Committee representatives and Unison.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)             the conclusions of the report be endorsed; and

(2)            the Social Media Policy set out at Annex 1 to the report be approved by the Council subject to the replacement of the words “effort” with “resource” in the penultimate bullet point of paragraph 10.1 and “the workplace” with “public” in the fifth bullet point of paragraph 11.1.