Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Governance and Pensions.

The Director of Governance and Pensions, submitted a report detailing the work programmes of the Council’s Scrutiny Panels to cover the municipal years 2018/19 and 2019/20.

It was reported that the work programmes of the Council’s scrutiny panels had been developed to reflect priority issues across the Council, Strategic Commission and external partners.  The programme supported the approach to improve the flexibility, responsiveness and reporting methods of the panels and had been designed as a two year working document.

Scrutiny activity would continue to be undertaken outside of the six formal meetings and both panels would monitor and evaluate outcomes from previous reviews undertaken and the implementation of past recommendations.  In order to further develop scrutiny activity, plans were in place to ensure panel members were able to contribute and respond to a range of engagement and consultation activity taking place within the Council and across partners.

Tables detailing a list of topics for the Integrated Care and Wellbeing Scrutiny Panel and Place and External Relations Scrutiny Panel to choose from were included in the report in addition to information on monitoring past recommendations and cross panel activity.  The list of topics had been agreed at the June 2018 scrutiny meetings and were a combination of service and performance updates, input to formal consultations and areas for in-depth review.

RESOLVED:

That the Scrutiny Work Programmes and planned activities be noted.