Issue - meetings

Purpose

To provide information on the scope and breadth of actions and activities carried out by Culture and Leisure teams, within the Directorate, in response to the Covid 19 pandemic, in order to mitigate impacts and support residents.

Lindy Elliott, Library and Archive Services Manager introduced the report. 

Councillor Morgan said it would be useful to receive a future paper on the broader impact to the department and the impact on the business plan in terms of outcomes, as a result of COVID-19.  Councillor Pitt said a report on lessons learnt would be drawn up later in the summer. 

Councillor Pitt said it was important to bring forward this paper to capture the work of the service.  He drew attention to some of the key points the service had achieved including the museum team becoming community advisors, the parks team working throughout the pandemic and all the work of the libraries team to get the three libraries re-opened at the earliest possible stage and also ensuring that the Summer Reading Challenge could launch for children in time for the Summer holidays, which was vital.  He said these update reports would come forward to future meetings and thanked all staff in Culture and Leisure for their continued efforts.

The Cabinet Member noted the report.