Agenda item

Joint report of the Town Clerk and Comptroller & City Solicitor.

Members considered a joint report of the Town Clerk and Comptroller & City Solicitor regarding the review of governance arrangements for the Sub Committee, and raised the following points:

·         The dual Chairmanship exception could be reviewed after a year.

·         Restricting membership to exclude Community & Children’s Services Committee Members was necessary to ensure there was no conflict of interest, but would severely reduce the ‘pool’ of Members likely to serve on the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee.

·         Having a stand-alone Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee would highlight the issues being considered, and acknowledge their importance.

RESOLVED – That it be recommended to the Community & Children’s Services Committee that:

(a)  the recommended option of dissolving the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub Committee and retaining the combined responsibility for scrutiny of health and social care under a new stand-alone Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee be agreed;

(b)  no Member of the Community & Children’s Services Committee or the Health & Wellbeing Board should serve on the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee; and

(c)  the Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee be listed as an exception under Standing Order 29(3) in terms of dual Chairmanship.