Public reports pack Thursday 09-Jul-2015 19.00 Corporate Committee

Page 14the initial stage of re-integration. It will also highlight where futureresources may be needed. As a reminder for Corporate Committee,this assessment commenced in December 2014 and covers keyfunctions of Finance, Lambeth Living contracts, Lambeth PartneringContracts Home Ownership and Organisational Behaviour andCulture.3.2.2 This review is now complete and a draft report has been issuedwhich the Council is meeting with PwC to finalise in June. Followingthis, an action plan will be put in place to ensure that all supportneeds and required actions are picked up and monitored post reintegrationbased on the final report. The project re-integration boardreceived a presentation from PwC regarding their initial findings on11 May 2015.3.2.3 The re-integration project board and officers group have beenoverseeing the process which is on track to successfully re-integratehousing management back into the Council on 26 June 2015. TheCouncil provided an update report to Cabinet on 13 April 2015 whichprovided details of the co-production exercise conducted on thefuture model of Lambeth Council’s Housing Management service.Neil Wightman commenced his role on 4 May 2015 as DeliveryDirector for Housing Management and will lead the service goingforward.3.2.4 In addition to the due diligence work, the Council has commissionedtwo other audit reviews:1. Lambeth Living Procurement –review of a contract termination:The purpose of this review was to confirm whether LambethLiving followed the Council’s policies and appropriatedelegations in removing the services from one contractor andtransferring the contract to another contractor.2. Repairs contract (which arose from issues aroundwhistle blowing raised at an Employment Tribunal where theCouncil was not a named party):The purpose of this review was to confirm that the controlsand processes in place over management of the repairscontract by Lambeth Living were appropriately designed andoperating effectively.3.2.5 For both of the above reviews the Council has now received the finalreports, which had been the subject of clearance with both Councilofficers and senior management within Lambeth Living. Thedetermination of further actions required from the reviews and themonitoring of progress against those actions is being conductedthrough the clienting arrangements between the Council andLambeth Living and is being factored into the reintegration process.3.2.6 Reactive Repairs contract audit review