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Work Programme

Meeting: 25/05/2017 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 8)

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Report of Head of Law and Governance

 

Purpose of report

 

To consider the outstanding items from the 2016-2017 Overview and Scrutiny work programme and determine whether they should be carried forward onto the 2017-2018 work programme.

 

Recommendations

            

The meeting is recommended to:

 

1.1         Decide whether to continue with the reviews started during the previous Municipal Year.

 

1.2         To identify any items from the Executive Work Programme to form part of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee Indicative Work Programme for 2017/18

 

1.3         To identify any other possible future topics for scrutiny and consider whether these topics should have scoping documents produced, based on the considerations of risk and what value scrutiny can add through considering the issue.

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

Resolved

 

(1)  That the reviews started during the previous Municipal Year be continued.

 

(2)  That no items on the Executive Work Programme be identified to be part of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee Indicative Work Programme for 2017/18 at this time.

 

(3)  That having given due consideration, no topics for scrutiny be identified to produce scoping documents at this time.

Minutes:

The Committee considered the Work Programme for the municipal year 2017/2018.

 

Members reviewed the working groups started during the previous Municipal year and agreed that Youth Engagement remained a worthwhile area for scrutiny. In the course of the discussion, new Members expressed an interest in joining the working group and further ideas for youth engagement were forthcoming.

 

The Committee also considered the A361 working group.  As some members of this working group had now left the committee a request was made for new members.  It was requested that an expression of interest be sent to all members of the committee.

 

Members considered the Mobile Phone signal working group. As the majority of the working group members were not in attendance, it was agreed that they should be consulted before a decision was made on the future of this working group.

 

The Committee discussed other possible topics for scrutiny: Safeguarding;  Joint Use Agreement of Sports Facilities; Children’s   Centres; Anti-Social behaviour; Car Park Strategy and Emergency Protocol.  It was requested that relevant officers be  invited to future meetings of the committee to provide  an update on these areas  before a decision regarding potential scrutiny be made.

 

With regards to attendance by members of the Executive, the Leader of the Council and the Lead Member for Housing had addressed the committee during 2016/2017, Members agreed that the would like to invite the Lead Member for Planning and the Lead Member for Public Protection and Community Services to attend the Committee.

 

 

Resolved

 

(1)  That the reviews started during the previous Municipal Year be continued.

 

(2)  That no items on the Executive Work Programme be identified to be part of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee Indicative Work Programme for 2017/18 at this time.

 

(3)  That having given consideration to future topics for scrutiny, none be identified to produce scoping documents at this time.