Issue - meetings

To approve the recommendations of the Constitution Committee.

The Constitution Committee had considered a report on proposals for the appointment of an Appeals Sub-Committee. It was proposed that the appeals function should become the responsibility of the Constitution Committee and that the Committee appoint an Appeals Sub Committee of 5 Members, on a politically-proportionate basis. 

     In considering the proposals, the Constitution Committee recommended to Council that the Sub-Committee be appointed and that it comprise a pool of 10 Members, to be nominated by the Political Groups, from whom 5 Members could be drawn, on a political proportionate basis.

The following nominations were made at the meeting :-

Labour Group – Cllrs A Harewood and I Faysei.

Independent Group – Cllrs B Murphy and M Parsons.

RESOLVED

1      That the following functions become the responsibility of the Constitution Committee, which will appoint an Appeals Sub Committee with full delegated powers to hear and determine the following:

·        appeals lodged under the Marriage Act

·        appeals lodged with the Council for determination, as authorised under all relevant education legislation, excluding those duties falling to the Independent Appeals Panel (school admissions and exclusions)

·        appeals lodged with the Council in respect of school transport

·        appeals from bus contractors in accordance with contract procedures

·        any appeals lodged with the Council as Social Services Authority and as authorised under all relevant social services legislation

2            That the Sub-Committee comprise five members on a politically proportionate basis, the members to be drawn from a wider pool of ten members to be nominated by the political groups.

3.     That the Officers arrange suitable training for those Members nominated.

4.     That the Appeals Sub-Committee’s meetings be held, wherever possible, on those dates already scheduled in the calendar of meetings for the former Appeals Committee.