Issue - meetings

To approve the recommendations of the Constitution Committee.

The Constitution Committee considered a report on the Terms of Reference for the six Overview and Scrutiny Committees.

Council, at its Annual Meeting on 18 May 2011, had increased the number of Overview and Scrutiny Committee from five to six, by dividing the functions of the former Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee and thereby creating two new Committees: Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

The two new Committees had considered the draft terms of reference  and the Scrutiny Chairmen’s Group had met with the Leader of the Council to review the terms of reference of all six Committees, in light of the changes made by the Leader in respect of the Portfolio responsibilities for each of the Cabinet Members. The Constitution Committee had recommended that Council approve the proposed terms of reference

RESOLVED 

1          That the proposed terms of reference for the six Overview and Scrutiny Committees, as set out in the Appendix to the report, and part 3 of the Council’s Constitution, be amended accordingly.

2          That the Constitution be amended, to incorporate into the General Responsibilities of all Scrutiny Committee, as contained in part 3, the responsibility for undertaking pre-decision scrutiny work, as expressed in paragraph 10.5 of the report.