Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Borough Solicitor.

The Committee considered the current Work Programme which had been revised at Mid Point on 28 October.  Members noted that there were a number of items currently scheduled for the meeting in January and agreed to discuss scheduling at the mid point meeting.

The Task/Finish Panel on a Review of Residential Provision had held its first meeting and the Chairman of the Panel provided a verbal update on the Panel’s work – the review had been scoped and Members had received some written information and asked for Ofsted reports of current and previous residential provision relating to Priors Hill, Macclesfield and Redsands, Crewe.  

The Committee had also had the opportunity to visit two new residential homes in Crewe and would be invited to visit Children’s Centres later in the year.

Members discussed setting up a Task/Finish Panel to scrutinise Family Support Services now that the Scrutiny Panel on Managing School Places had completed its work.

RESOLVED:  That

(a) the current Work Programme be noted; and

(b) a Task/Finish Panel on Family Support Services be set up comprising the following Councillors:  Westwood, Beckford, Flude, Merry, Neilson and Thompson.