Agenda item - ANNUAL SCRUTINY WORK PROGRAMMES 2020-21 (TO FOLLOW)

Agenda item

ANNUAL SCRUTINY WORK PROGRAMMES 2020-21 (TO FOLLOW)

To prioritise and agree the draft OSC and Panel Work programmes for 2020/21

 

NOTE: The provisional call-in date of 21st October 2020 will now be used as an additional business meeting, to receive a petition relating to Low Traffic Neighbourhood Schemes.

Minutes:

The Chair introduced this item, noting that each work programme would be reviewed with Members of OSC providing comment as appropriate.

 

21) It was agreed that rather than OSC consider fly-tipping, the Environment and Climate Action Scrutiny Panel would have this item.

 

22) There will be an additional business meeting of OSC on 21 October to receive a petition relating to the Bowers Area Low Transport Network Scheme. This additional meeting will allow for an item to be considered relating to ‘ICT and Digital Services - the Customer Experience.’ It was noted that this item should be wide-ranging to include the customer experience of differing stakeholders (residents, business users), across various parts of the borough. In addition, how do we support the elderly in accessing digital systems?

 

23) A discussion was held on the most accurate way to ensure reports contain the information required by OSC Members. It was agreed that Scrutiny Officers would assist OSC Members in devising a mini-scope for each item to be scrutinised.

 

24) Cllr Greer noted and Members agreed, that it was important to maintain an independent, autonomous scrutiny process.

 

25) The role of representation from the Youth Parliament was discussed. It was noted that the planning session for the Children’s, Young People and Education Scrutiny Panel had 3 representatives from the Youth Parliament in attendance,  who gave a valuable insight to the issues concerning young people. It was agreed that youth participation in scrutiny should be encouraged.

 

26) The Youth Parliament representatives requested an opportunity to shadow Councillors, especially in relation to Housing and Environment Services. Cllr Georgiou as Chair of the Children’s, Young People and Education Scrutiny Panel had agreed to raise this with all Councillors and Claire Johnson agreed to co-ordinate with the Young Mayor and the Youth Parliament.

                                                                                           ACTION : Claire Johnson

 

27) Cllr Elif Erbil, Chair of the Housing Scrutiny Panel agreed to a change in the order of items to the panel, as advised by Cllr Yusuf (Vice Hair of the Housing Scrutiny Panel).

 

28) Cllr Smith as Chair of the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Panel provided a summary of the work programme for that panel. It was noted that there had to be a degree of flexibility in the agenda items for the March meeting as the situation relating to the pandemic is not possible to predict.

 

29) In conjunction with the items on the Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Panel, Cllr Demirel as Chair of the Finance and Performance Scrutiny Panel, confirmed that the panel would have an item on how Covid-19 has impacted upon the Council’s financial performance at their November meeting.

 

30) Cllr Yusuf as Chair of the Environment and Climate Action Scrutiny Panel confirmed that to allow detailed scrutiny, they would have a maximum of 2 subjects at each meeting. However, to allow this, it was requested that this panel be permitted to arrange an additional meeting (in January or March) to scrutinise Home Insulation and School Streets.

 

31) The Chair summarised the item and the Members of OSC agreed the 7 scrutiny work programmes for 2020/21.

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