Committee details

Policy Review and Policy  Development

•            Policy Reviews for all Council areas

•            Policy development for all Council areas

Coordinate and manages all policy development and reviews.

•            Set up ad hoc Policy Review Groups for pre decision scrutiny;

•            Utilise the skills and interest of non-executive members when setting up PRG group’s membership;

•            Set the terms of reference and ensure that the group work within the agreed parameters.

•            Receive and approve final reports of the Policy Review Groups.

Consider the implementation of projects/ schemes/ legislation that impact upon the whole council.

Such as:

•            City Deal;

•            Change Programme;

•            Fairness Equalities and Impact Assessments;

•            Welsh Language Scheme;

•            Wellbeing of Future Generations Act;

•            Corporate Assessment;

•            Public Engagement;

•            Risk Register

•            Performance Management Framework;

Scrutiny of Corporate plans, strategies and frameworks

•            Consultation on Corporate strategies, plans and frameworks;

Such as

-           Corporate Plan;

-           Strategic Equalities Plan;

-           Director of Social Services Annual Report;

Consider the Draft Budget Proposals and coordinate the response from Scrutiny on the draft budget proposals.

•            Consider the draft Budget Proposals from a strategic point of view. 

•            Coordinate the comments from the Performance Scrutiny Committees on the budget proposals and ensure that there is no duplication within the comments;

•            Consider the effectiveness of the budget process, and the public engagement process.

Manages Scrutiny Member Training

•       Ensure adequate training is available for scrutiny members;

•       Identify any training needs of scrutiny members;

•       Manage Scrutiny Seminar list.

Approve and monitor the Scrutiny Annual Report

•       Consider improvements that should be made within the scrutiny process;

•       Approve the Scrutiny Annual Report;

•       Monitor the implementation of the actions within the Annual Report.

Recommendations monitoring on Scrutiny Recommendations resulting from reviews

•       Undertake regular monitoring of recommendations made by Scrutiny;

•       Ensure that recommendations have been implemented appropriately;

•       Assess the extent to which the intended outcome has been achieved;

•       Determine if further work/ investigation/review is required following the initial recommendation.

Coordinate the programme for the Performance Scrutiny Committees

•       Receive the meeting schedule, minutes from the Performance Scrutiny Committees and receive updates on the implementation of the work programmes.