Notes from the meeting held at King's College London

Present:

Judith Cattermole, David Gee, Christine Muller, Janet Smith, Maureen Wade,Jean Yeoh (Chair)

The minutes were approved as a correct record.

2. Matters Arising

There were no matters arising.

3. Appointment of Administrator for CPD25

The Chair informed members that 2 applications had been received by the deadline of 8th April. Interviews would take place on 25th April at the University of Westminster. In the event of neither applicant being considered suitable the position would be re-advertised not as a secondment.

4. Task Group Programme Development

The Chair explained the tabled templates to members.

The top sheet was an over-arching template covering all the activities of CPD25 and would be used by the Steering Group to co-ordinate the events.

Each task group was then provided with an individual template on the back of which were a number of suggestions from the Training Implementation Group and SDG & STG evaluation forms.

She stressed that it would not be expected that every task group would complete all the boxes on their programme. Members were informed that it would be the responsibility of the administrator to keep the templates updated.

Task Group Chairs were agreed as follows:

Group 1

Career Development - David Gee

Group 2

Statutory Requirements/Legal Compliance - Christine Muller

Group 3

Operations Management - Maureen Wade

Group 4

Personal Effectiveness & Management - Judith Cattermole

Group 5

User Resources & Services - Janet Smith

It was noted that the number of suggestions already received varied greatly between the various task groups and that a number of the topics would be relevant to more than one group. It was agreed that a list of potential contacts should be drawn up to assist with planning events.

5.Task Group Membership

The Chair had received 15 expressions of interest to date. All of these had been contacted and asked to indicate which 3 task groups they were most likely to wish to be a member of. The responses received prior to the Steering Group were tabled and noted.

Following discussion a further 15 suggestions were made and members agreed to approach these people.

6. Draft CPD25 Payment Bands

A finalised version of the payment bands was noted. Members were informed that subscriptions would be based upon SCONUL staffing numbers. The M25 Steering Group had agreed to set aside up to 5K pump priming funding for CPD25. It was further noted that the Training Implementation Group had given suggested event fees, which would need to be used to ensure that the programme as a whole broke even. In some cases adjustments would need to be made to ensure that events requiring external training providers could also be priced attractively.

7. Timetable and meetings arrangements

It was agreed that the first meeting of the task groups would be a joint one to be held on the afternoon of 24th, 27th or 29th May at the Maughan Library & Information Services Centre.

The suggested timetable for this meeting was:

1.45 - 2.15
CPD25 Introduction by the Chair and short presentations by the individual task group chairs

2.15 - 3.30
Breakout sessions. Each task group would brainstorm their top 10 priority meetings for the 2002-03 session. These would be written up on pre-ruled flip-chart paper.

3.30 - 4.00
Task group members would be given 10 spots to award to the meetings they felt to be of greatest important. Tea would be available during this period.

4.00 - 4.10
Steering Group members would pull together information gleaned from this voting process. Tea would remain available to task group members.

4.10 - 4.30
Conclusions

It was agreed that task group members would be encouraged to take a wide-view when voting in order to appeal to all the constituent members.

Whilst CPD25 was being established it would probably be necessary to have Steering Group meetings each month. However it was agreed that there would only need to be 4-5 meetings of the Steering Group each year with Task Groups meeting between the Steering Group meetings.

8. Any Other Business

No other business.

9. Date of Next Meeting

7th June in Room LG39 of the King's College London.

TH - 9 May 2002