Issue - meetings

Working Groups Update

To give consideration to the continuation of the three working groups as detailed on the briefing note.

Recommendations

The meeting is recommended to consider:

1.1 Whether the three working groups will continue.

1.2 Where it is decided they will continue, the membership of each group.

Additional documents:

Webcast for Working Groups Update

Decision:

Resolved

(1) That the Climate Action, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (joint group with Personnel Committee) and Food Insecurity working groups continue.

(2) That the Principal Officer - Scrutiny and Democratic Lead be requested to ask existing members of each group, where appropriate, if they wish to continue on the relevant working group.

(3) That the following additional Overview & Scrutiny Committee members be appointed to working groups:

· Climate Action – Councillor Isabel Creed,

· Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – Councillor Lynne Parsons, Councillor Rob Pattenden.

· Food Insecurity – Councillor Isabel Creed, Councillor Dorothy Walker.

Minutes:

The Principal Officer - Scrutiny and Democratic Lead explained that in 2022/23 there were three scrutiny working groups: Climate Action, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (joint group with Personnel Committee) and Food Insecurity working groups. The Committee was asked to consider whether these working groups should continue during the 2023/24 municipal year.

The Committee agreed that all three groups should continue and requested that the Principal Officer - Scrutiny and Democratic Lead ask existing working group members, where appropriate, if they wished to continue being on the relevant working group.