Common use of General Issues Clause in Contracts

General Issues. 2.1 The functions of the new partnership are listed within the legal agreement to provide clarity on the services Partneriaeth will deliver. 2.2 The responsibilities of the new joint committee for Partneriaeth cover the four main aspects of monitoring performance, planning, risk and resource management. The Agreement addresses each aspect, in detail. 2.3 Appendix A provides the Agreement in full with each of the thirteen schedules providing further detail to support the main contents of the Agreement. 2.4 The Agreement will become effective once each of the three Councils named in this report has approved its contents and executed the document. 2.5 The functions of the new partnership will be subject to development and scrutiny via the Partneriaeth business plan that has to be approved by the joint committee. 2.6 The central team referred to in the legal agreement is proportionate to the size of the new region and reflects the number of pupils and number of schools that Partneriaeth will serve. 2.7 The shadow joint committee has agreed on the proportionate size of staff structure as well as the contributions required to meet the costs of the new staffing structure either by core funding through the Revenue Support Grant (RSG) or Regional Consortia School Improvement Grant (RCSIG). 2.8 Consultation on the revised central team structure closed on 22 October 2021 and the agreed process for finalising the staffing structure for Partneriaeth will conclude on 31 December 2021. 2.9 The legal agreement specifies a Scrutiny Councillor Group as part of the governance arrangements for PARTNERIAETH. In addition, Strategic, Operational and Stakeholder Groups are specified to ensure monitoring across all tiers of the partnership.