Agenda item

Attendees:

o      Daniel Cooke (Scrutiny Adviser)

The Scrutiny Adviser introduced the Draft Annual Forward Work Programme to the Committee and discussed each item individually with the Members, the following possible agenda items were discussed with Members;

·                Civil Parking Enforcement Implementation review – The Committee were informed that this item would be broken down into two separate items with a verbal update pre implementation to the Committee on 6 June and a review of implementation in March 2020.

·                Scrutiny Annual Report – The Committee were informed that the annual report on Scrutiny would sent to the Committee on 6 June.

·                Annual Corporate Report – The Scrutiny Adviser explained that this year the Committee would receive a report on the Council’s performance towards achieving their objectives as set out in the Corporate Plan.

·                Annual Information Risk Report - The report would look at how the Council was managing the risks relating to IT and feed their comments to Cabinet.

·                Public Convenience Strategy – The Committee accepted the referral to scrutinise the Public Convenience Strategy prior to the report being finalised.

·                Draft Economic Regeneration Strategy – The Draft Economic Strategy will be provided to the Committee for their comments prior to the strategy being published. The Committee voiced their disappointment at the delay in receiving the strategy and requested that everything that can be done is done to bring the strategy earlier. The Scrutiny Adviser stated that he would seek feedback from the Head of Regeneration, Investment and Housing on the feasibility of this.

·                Performance Management Strategy – Recommendations monitoring relating to the recommendations and comments made by the Committee when the Performance Management Strategy was brought to the Committee the year previous. The Scrutiny Adviser explained that this item was subject to change due to the Officers undertaking a review of the Strategy and the option of combining the Performance and Risk strategies into one document. 

·                20 – 21 Draft Budget and MTFP Proposals -  The Committee were informed that they would receive the report and would be able to make comments and recommendations to Cabinet on the public engagement and budget process of the setting of the MTFP and budget for the next financial year.

·                Annual Corporate Safeguarding report – The Committee attention was drawn to the annual report that would be provided by the Head of Corporate Safeguarding, Director of Social Services and Head of Children and Young Peoples Services.

The Scrutiny Adviser discussed the potential Policy Review Group subjects or additional reports from Officers. These included; the use of Fairness Equality Impact Assessments across the Council when proposing changes to a service, the annual budget process and an update or follow up on the WAO Scrutiny ‘Fit for Purpose’ report.

The Committee would also be receiving all regulatory reports in the future. They would initially be sent to the Committee for information, and then the Committee would have to opportunity to add the report to a future agenda.

The Committee agreed the draft schedule of dates set out by the Scrutiny Adviser, with one exception. The meeting on the 6 of June clashed with a D-Day ceremony in the City Centre. The Committee requested that another time or date was secured. The Scrutiny Adviser would find an alternative and inform the Committee at a later date