City Governance Committee - 02/09/2024

At a MEETING of the CITY GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE held at Dundee on 2nd September, 2024.

Present:-

BAILIES

COUNCILLORS

Councillor Mark Flynn, Convener, in the Chair.

The minute of meeting of this Committee of 19th August, 2024 was held as read.

Unless marked thus * all items stand delegated.

I DECLARATION OF INTEREST

There were no declarations of interest.

II ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR - JANUARY TO JUNE, 2024

There was submitted Report No 130-2024 by the Executive Director of Neighbourhood Services, providing an overview on the reporting figures to the Neighbourhood Services - Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Team for the period 1st January to 30th June, 2024. This would be reported in two separate quarters for Q4 of 2023/2024 and Q1 of 2024/2025.

The Committee agreed to note the content of the report.

III A NATIONAL CARE SERVICE FOR SCOTLAND - RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR EVIDENCE

There was submitted Report No 235-2024 by the Chief Executive, providing an update on amendments being proposed at Stage 2 of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill process and setting out a proposed response to be submitted on behalf of Dundee City Council to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committees call for evidence.

The Committee agreed:-

(i) to note that the Scottish Government had written to the Health, Social Care and Sport (HSCS) Committee with a package of amendments for further debate at Stage 2 of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill process; and

(ii) to consider and agree the draft response as detailed in Appendix 2 to the report to be submitted to the call for evidence launched by the HSCS Committee on the amendments, by the new deadline of 20th September, 2024.

IV PROCUREMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALING APPLICATION SEESAW SOFTWARE

There was submitted Joint Report No 237-2024 by the Executive Director of Children and Families Service and the Executive Director of Corporate Services, providing an update on the development of a sourcing strategy for the tender process for the procurement of a communication and journaling application and seeking approval to direct award a contract compliantly via the NHS digital workplace solutions framework.

The Committee agreed:-

(i) to approve the direct award of the contract in respect of the project described in the report, based on the sourcing strategy, summarised in the report;

(ii) to delegate authority to the Executive Director of the Corporate Services to award a contract to the successful bidder, following a quote received from the supplier of Seesaw. This was a continuation of the service which had been embedded across schools since 2020. This process had been carried out in compliance with the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations of 2015; and

(iii) to approve expenditure on the project to the estimated cost of the contract of 99,499 as detailed in Item 3 - Financial Implications of the report.

Mark FLYNN, Convener.