Southend Council obtains Investors in People accolade
Southend Council’s chief executive Rob Tinlin will be presented with an Investors in People certificate at the Civic Centre on 15th July.
Investors in People (IIP) is a nationally recognised standard that is awarded to organisations that show excellent people management leading to improved business performance. It is awarded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
IIP assessors said that Southend Council had met its criteria “over and beyond” the recognition level by providing several examples of best practice.
The IIP framework judges organisations on fair and equal access to training and development, strategic planning and the communication of policies, procedures, aims, values and objectives to staff.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council’s Executive Councillor for Corporate Support Services, Andrew Moring, said: “The Council has always taken staff training and development very seriously.
“We are proud to have gained national recognition for the exacting standards we set ourselves and we are committed to continuous improvement.
“We’ve worked very hard for this award to improve performance overall in the organisation.
“The residents of Southend will continue to benefit from the Council delivering excellent services.”
Shame there was no investment in a redundancy fund for those whose services will be dispensed with folloing the cuts that are “unavoidable”