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Background and Overview. 2.1 Section 113 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that a local authority may enter into an agreement with another local authority for the placing at the disposal of the latter for the purposes of their functions, on such terms as may be provided by the agreement, the services and officers employed by the former. An officer placed by one local authority at the disposal of another remains employed by the first local authority. 2.2 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council entered into a Strategic Alliance on 1st July 2020 and that alliance will be superseded by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. Those councils placed certain members of their staff at the disposal of the other pursuant to an agreement under s113 of the Local Government Act 1972 dated 1 July 2021. 2.3 South Holland District Council was formerly part of a shared management arrangement with Breckland District Council. Those arrangements came to an end on 30 April 2021. Some services (Legal Services and Procurement, together with one Environmental Services Officer) continue to be provided by Breckland District Council to South Holland District Council. 2.4 South Holland District Council and Boston Borough Council established a South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee in 2011 for the purpose of preparing joint policy documents for the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. 2.5 The Councils are desirous of securing further benefit to their communities by establishing a three-council strategic partnership and propose to share the costs and subsequently benefit from the potential efficiency savings that may be secured through such a strategic partnership. 2.6 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and South Holland District Council respectively decided to prepare proposals for an integrated Shared Management Team that is intended to facilitate the development of a South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership and any additional posts agreed by the Councils to be incorporated in the Shared Workforce Structure between the three councils. 2.7 At its meeting on 1 July 2021, South Holland District Council approved the designation of East Xxxxxxx District Council’s Head of Paid Service as South Holland District Council’s Head of Paid Service and Chief Executive for an interim period being the period necessary to prepare and submit to the Council a business case, draft Memorandum of Agreement and proposed Senior Management Team structure. 2.8 At their respective meetings on 28th July 2021, East Xxxxxxx District Council and 2nd August 2021, Boston Borough Council and 29th July 2021, South Holland District Council resolved to enter into the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership supported by the Shared Management Team but with the potential for the Councils to share additional posts. The development of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is to be overseen and implemented by the joint Head of Paid Service. 2.9 At its meeting on 28th July 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council agreed to continue to place its Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service at the disposal of South Holland District Council supported by similar approval by Boston Borough Council at its meeting on 2 August 2021 and at its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council approved the continuation of the designation of its Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service in a joint arrangement with East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council. 2.10 At its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council agreed to place its Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer at the disposal of East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and at their meetings on 28th July 2021 and 2nd August 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council respectively designated the holders of those posts as their Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer in a joint arrangement with South Holland District Council. 2.11 The objects of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership facilitated by a Shared Workforce Structure are: o To provide adequate capacity and resilience to the three Councils so that they are individually and collectively better able to deliver on their priorities to local people. o Acting together to develop, promote jointly and secure investment in strategic infrastructure that will benefit the three Council areas by assisting economic growth and regeneration, including, but not limited to roads, railways, flood defences and land drainage, educational, health and well-being infrastructure and acknowledging that East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council have been awarded funding under the Towns Fund for Boston, Mablethorpe and Skegness. o For each council individually to continue to exercise democratically accountable local government in their respective areas and have their own governance arrangements whilst sharing management of agreed internal and external services. o To provide opportunity and ease the transition to more joint commissioning of services and sharing resources where a business case supports such a decision. o To provide more efficient and economical services to local people whilst maintaining or improving the quality of the services that are provided to them. o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures. o To provide an operating platform which may have relevance for future devolved powers and/or Local Government structures. o To create greater opportunities for the Partnership’s workforce to develop their careers. 2.12 The Shared Management Team structure is set out at Schedule 4 2.13 Although the Shared Workforce Structure may provide opportunities and ease the transition to joint commissioning of services, this agreement does not commit any Council to the commissioning of joint services. 2.14 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council acknowledge and confirm that their agreement dated 1 July 2020 has been terminated and superseded by this Agreement. 2.15 It is the intention of the Parties that a programme of service reviews will be agreed with a view to the consideration of additional service areas in which the sharing of officers might be beneficial. In the absence of formal sharing of officers in any given service area, it is the intention of the Councils to offer each other mutual assistance and support informally and on an ad-hoc basis by adopting a ‘one team’ ethos. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows

Background and Overview. 2.1 Section 113 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that a local authority may enter into an agreement with another local authority for the placing at the disposal of the latter for the purposes of their functions, on such terms as may be provided by the agreement, of the services and officers employed by the former. An officer placed by one local authority at the disposal of another remains employed by the first local authority. 2.2 East Xxxxxxx District Council At their meetings on 28 July 2010 and Boston Borough Council entered into a Strategic Alliance on 1st July 2020 and that alliance will be superseded by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. Those councils placed certain members of their staff at the disposal of the other pursuant to an agreement under s113 of the Local Government Act 1972 dated 1 July 2021. 2.3 South Holland District Council was formerly part of a shared management arrangement with Breckland District Council. Those arrangements came to an end on 30 April 2021. Some services (Legal Services and Procurement, together with one Environmental Services Officer) continue to be provided by Breckland District Council to South Holland District Council. 2.4 12 August 2010 South Holland District Council and Boston Borough Council established a South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee in 2011 for the purpose of preparing joint policy documents for the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. 2.5 The Councils are desirous of securing further benefit to their communities by establishing a three-council strategic partnership and propose to share the costs and subsequently benefit from the potential efficiency savings that may be secured through such a strategic partnership. 2.6 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and South Holland Breckland District Council respectively decided to prepare proposals for an integrated Shared Management Team that is intended to facilitate the development shared management structure covering agreed areas of a South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership and any additional posts agreed by the Councils to be incorporated in the Shared Workforce Structure joint working between the three councilsCouncils. 2.7 2.3 At its meeting on 1 July 2021, 11 August 2010 South Holland District Council approved the designation of East Xxxxxxx District Council’s Head of Paid Service as South Holland District Council’s Head of Paid Service and Chief Executive for an interim period being the period necessary to prepare and submit agreed to the Council a business casesecondment of its Chief Executive, draft Memorandum of Agreement and proposed Senior Management Team structure. 2.8 At their respective meetings on 28th July 2021, East Xxxxxxx to Breckland District Council and 2nd August 2021, Boston Borough Council and 29th July 2021, South Holland District Council resolved to enter into the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership supported by the Shared Management Team but with the potential for the Councils to share additional posts. The development 50% of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is to be overseen and implemented by the joint Head of Paid Service. 2.9 At its meeting on 28th July 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council agreed to continue to place its Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service at the disposal of South Holland District Council supported by similar approval by Boston Borough Council at its meeting on 2 August 2021 his/her time and at its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland 12 August 2010 Breckland District Council approved the continuation of the designation appointment of its Chief Executive and Head of the Paid Service in a joint arrangement with East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council. 2.10 At its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council agreed to place its Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer at the disposal of East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and at their meetings on 28th July 2021 and 2nd August 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council respectively designated the holders of those posts as their Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer in a joint arrangement with South Holland District Council. 2.11 2.4 The objects requirements of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership facilitated by a Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure are: o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures exceeding 35% plus other consequential savings. o To provide adequate management capacity and resilience to the three Councils so that they are individually and collectively better able to deliver on their priorities to local people. o Acting together to develop, promote jointly and secure investment in strategic infrastructure that will benefit the three Council areas by assisting economic growth and regeneration, including, but not limited to roads, railways, flood defences and land drainage, educational, health and well-being infrastructure and acknowledging that East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council have been awarded funding under the Towns Fund for Boston, Mablethorpe and Skegnessboth authorities. o For each council individually to continue to exercise democratically accountable local government in their respective areas and have their own governance arrangements whilst sharing management of agreed internal and external services. o To provide opportunity and ease the transition to more joint commissioning of services and sharing resources where a business case supports such a decision. o To provide more efficient be capable of both contraction if for example client roles for external services are combined and economical services expansion if for example a third local authority wished to local people whilst maintaining or improving join, without the quality need to fundamentally redesign the structure. 2.5 Whilst the primary purpose of the services that are provided Shared Management Structure is to them. o To make financial savings to provide an integrated structure comprising managers and other senior staff, the combined staffing costs parties have also recognised the benefits of placing some non-senior staff employed by one of them at the disposal of the existing management structures. o To provide an operating platform which may have relevance for future devolved powers and/or Local Government structures. o To create greater opportunities for the Partnership’s workforce to develop their careersother in agreed service areas. 2.12 The Shared Management Team structure is set out at Schedule 4 2.13 2.6 Although the Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure may provide opportunities and ease the transition to joint commissioning of servicesservices and sharing resources, this agreement does not commit any Council either council to the commissioning of joint services. 2.14 East Xxxxxxx District Council 2.7 At their respective meetings on 15 December and Boston Borough Council acknowledge and confirm that their agreement dated 1 July 2020 has been terminated and superseded by 16 December 2010 the Councils resolved to enter into this Agreement. 2.15 It is the intention of the Parties that a programme of service reviews will be agreed with a view to the consideration of additional service areas in which the sharing of officers might be beneficial. In the absence of formal sharing of officers in any given service area, it is the intention of the Councils to offer each other mutual assistance and support informally and on an ad-hoc basis by adopting a ‘one team’ ethos. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows

Background and Overview. 2.1 Section 113 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that a local authority may enter into an agreement with another local authority for the placing at the disposal of the latter for the purposes of their functions, on such terms as may be provided by the agreement, of the services and officers employed by the former. An officer placed by one local authority at the disposal of another remains employed by the first local authority. 2.2 East Xxxxxxx District Council At their meetings on 28 July 2010 and Boston Borough Council entered into a Strategic Alliance on 1st July 2020 and that alliance will be superseded by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. Those councils placed certain members of their staff at the disposal of the other pursuant to an agreement under s113 of the Local Government Act 1972 dated 1 July 2021. 2.3 South Holland District Council was formerly part of a shared management arrangement with Breckland District Council. Those arrangements came to an end on 30 April 2021. Some services (Legal Services and Procurement, together with one Environmental Services Officer) continue to be provided by Breckland District Council to South Holland District Council. 2.4 12 August 2010 South Holland District Council and Boston Borough Council established a South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee in 2011 for the purpose of preparing joint policy documents for the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. 2.5 The Councils are desirous of securing further benefit to their communities by establishing a three-council strategic partnership and propose to share the costs and subsequently benefit from the potential efficiency savings that may be secured through such a strategic partnership. 2.6 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and South Holland Breckland District Council respectively decided to prepare proposals for an integrated Shared Management Team that is intended to facilitate the development of a South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership and any additional posts agreed by the Councils to be incorporated in the Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure covering joint working between the three councilsCouncils. 2.7 2.3 At its meeting on 1 July 2021, 11 August 2010 South Holland District Council approved the designation of East Xxxxxxx District Council’s Head of Paid Service as South Holland District Council’s Head of Paid Service and Chief Executive for an interim period being the period necessary to prepare and submit agreed to the Council a business casesecondment of its Chief Executive, draft Memorandum of Agreement and proposed Senior Management Team structure. 2.8 At their respective meetings on 28th July 2021Xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, East Xxxxxxx to Breckland District Council for 50% of his time and 2nd August 2021, Boston Borough Council and 29th July 2021, South Holland District Council resolved to enter into the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership supported by the Shared Management Team but with the potential for the Councils to share additional posts. The development of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is to be overseen and implemented by the joint Head of Paid Service. 2.9 At at its meeting on 28th July 2021 East Xxxxxxx 12 August 2010 Breckland District Council agreed to continue to place approved the appointment of Xx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx as its Chief Executive and Head of the Paid Service at the disposal of South Holland District Council supported by similar approval by Boston Borough Council at its meeting on 2 August 2021 and at its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council approved the continuation of the designation of its Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service in a joint arrangement with East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council. 2.10 At its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council agreed to place its Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer at the disposal of East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and at their meetings on 28th July 2021 and 2nd August 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council respectively designated the holders of those posts as their Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer in a joint arrangement with South Holland District Council. 2.11 2.4 The objects requirements of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership facilitated by a Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure are: o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures exceeding 35% plus other consequential savings. o To provide adequate management capacity and resilience to the three Councils so that they are individually and collectively better able to deliver on their priorities to local people. o Acting together to develop, promote jointly and secure investment in strategic infrastructure that will benefit the three Council areas by assisting economic growth and regeneration, including, but not limited to roads, railways, flood defences and land drainage, educational, health and well-being infrastructure and acknowledging that East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council have been awarded funding under the Towns Fund for Boston, Mablethorpe and Skegnessboth authorities. o For each council to individually to continue to exercise democratically accountable local government in their respective areas and have their own governance arrangements whilst sharing management of agreed internal and external services. o To provide opportunity and ease the transition to more joint commissioning of services and sharing resources where a business case supports such a decisionresources. o To provide more efficient be capable of both contraction for example as client roles for external services are combined and economical services expansion for example if a third local authority wished to local people whilst maintaining or improving join, without the quality of need to fundamentally redesign the services that are provided to them. o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures. o To provide an operating platform which may have relevance for future devolved powers and/or Local Government structures. o To create greater opportunities for the Partnership’s workforce to develop their careersstructure. 2.12 The Shared Management Team structure is set out at Schedule 4 2.13 2.5 Although the Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure may provide opportunities and ease the transition to joint commissioning of servicesservices and sharing resources, this agreement does not commit any Council either council to the commissioning of joint services. 2.14 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council acknowledge and confirm that 2.6 At their agreement dated 1 July 2020 has been terminated and superseded by meetings on date the Councils resolved to enter into this Agreement. 2.15 It is the intention of the Parties that a programme of service reviews will be agreed with a view to the consideration of additional service areas in which the sharing of officers might be beneficial. In the absence of formal sharing of officers in any given service area, it is the intention of the Councils to offer each other mutual assistance and support informally and on an ad-hoc basis by adopting a ‘one team’ ethos. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows

Background and Overview. 2.1 Section 113 (1) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that a local authority may enter into an agreement with another local authority for the placing at the disposal of the latter for the purposes of their functions, on such terms as may be provided by the agreement, of the services and officers employed by the former. An officer placed by one local authority at the disposal of another remains employed by the first local authority. 2.2 East Xxxxxxx District Council At their meetings on 28 July 2010 and Boston Borough Council entered into a Strategic Alliance on 1st July 2020 and that alliance will be superseded by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. Those councils placed certain members of their staff at the disposal of the other pursuant to an agreement under s113 of the Local Government Act 1972 dated 1 July 2021. 2.3 South Holland District Council was formerly part of a shared management arrangement with Breckland District Council. Those arrangements came to an end on 30 April 2021. Some services (Legal Services and Procurement, together with one Environmental Services Officer) continue to be provided by Breckland District Council to South Holland District Council. 2.4 12 August 2010 South Holland District Council and Boston Borough Council established a South East Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee in 2011 for the purpose of preparing joint policy documents for the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. 2.5 The Councils are desirous of securing further benefit to their communities by establishing a three-council strategic partnership and propose to share the costs and subsequently benefit from the potential efficiency savings that may be secured through such a strategic partnership. 2.6 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and South Holland Breckland District Council respectively decided to prepare proposals for an integrated Shared Management Team that is intended to facilitate the development shared management structure covering agreed areas of a South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership and any additional posts agreed by the Councils to be incorporated in the Shared Workforce Structure joint working between the three councilsCouncils. 2.7 2.3 At its meeting on 1 July 2021, 11 August 2010 South Holland District Council approved the designation of East Xxxxxxx District Council’s Head of Paid Service as South Holland District Council’s Head of Paid Service and Chief Executive for an interim period being the period necessary to prepare and submit agreed to the Council a business casesecondment of its Chief Executive, draft Memorandum of Agreement and proposed Senior Management Team structure. 2.8 At their respective meetings on 28th July 2021, East Xxxxxxx to Breckland District Council and 2nd August 2021, Boston Borough Council and 29th July 2021, South Holland District Council resolved to enter into the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership supported by the Shared Management Team but with the potential for the Councils to share additional posts. The development 50% of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is to be overseen and implemented by the joint Head of Paid Service. 2.9 At its meeting on 28th July 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council agreed to continue to place its Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service at the disposal of South Holland District Council supported by similar approval by Boston Borough Council at its meeting on 2 August 2021 his/her time and at its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland 12 August 2010 Breckland District Council approved the continuation of the designation appointment of its Chief Executive and Head of the Paid Service in a joint arrangement with East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council. 2.10 At its meeting on 29th July 2021 South Holland District Council agreed to place its Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer at the disposal of East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council and at their meetings on 28th July 2021 and 2nd August 2021 East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council respectively designated the holders of those posts as their Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer in a joint arrangement with South Holland District Council. 2.11 2.4 The objects requirements of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership facilitated by a Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure are: o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures exceeding 35% plus other consequential savings. o To provide adequate management capacity and resilience to the three Councils so that they are individually and collectively better able to deliver on their priorities to local people. o Acting together to develop, promote jointly and secure investment in strategic infrastructure that will benefit the three Council areas by assisting economic growth and regeneration, including, but not limited to roads, railways, flood defences and land drainage, educational, health and well-being infrastructure and acknowledging that East Xxxxxxx District Council and Boston Borough Council have been awarded funding under the Towns Fund for Boston, Mablethorpe and Skegnessboth authorities. o For each council individually to continue to exercise democratically accountable local government in their respective areas and have their own governance arrangements whilst sharing management of agreed internal and external services. o To provide opportunity and ease the transition to more joint commissioning of services and sharing resources where a business case supports such a decision. o To provide more efficient be capable of both contraction if for example client roles for external services are combined and economical services expansion if for example a third local authority wished to local people whilst maintaining or improving join, without the quality of need to fundamentally redesign the services that are provided to them. o To make financial savings to the combined staffing costs of the existing management structures. o To provide an operating platform which may have relevance for future devolved powers and/or Local Government structures. o To create greater opportunities for the Partnership’s workforce to develop their careersstructure. 2.12 The Shared Management Team structure is set out at Schedule 4 2.13 2.5 Although the Shared Workforce Structure shared management structure may provide opportunities and ease the transition to joint commissioning of servicesservices and sharing resources, this agreement does not commit any Council either council to the commissioning of joint services. 2.14 East Xxxxxxx District Council 2.6 At their respective meetings on 15 December and Boston Borough Council acknowledge and confirm that their agreement dated 1 July 2020 has been terminated and superseded by 16 December 2010 the Councils resolved to enter into this Agreement. 2.15 It is the intention of the Parties that a programme of service reviews will be agreed with a view to the consideration of additional service areas in which the sharing of officers might be beneficial. In the absence of formal sharing of officers in any given service area, it is the intention of the Councils to offer each other mutual assistance and support informally and on an ad-hoc basis by adopting a ‘one team’ ethos. NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows