Agenda item

(B)Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee – proposing the creation of a new Committee.

21 January 2016

(B) Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee

In light of the impact of national developments on the way local authorities exercise their health overview and scrutiny function, the Policy and Resources Committee had considered the health and social care scrutiny functions of the City Corporation’s Health & Social Care Scrutiny Sub-Committee’s and the associated governance implications. This followed a review over seen by the Sub-Committee itself. The review highlighted the need to scrutinise not just the social care provided by external organisations but by the Corporation itself and organisations it has commissioned.

As a result of this the Policy and Resources Committee agreed in principle to set up a new stand-alone Committee with the combined responsibility for scrutiny of health and social care and to dissolve the existing Sub-Committee. The Court was therefore recommended to approve the creation of a Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee with terms of reference and constitution as set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

Resolved - That a new Health & Social Care Scrutiny Committee be established with terms of reference and constitution as attached at Appendix 1 to the report and that Standing Order 29 (3) be amended to enable the Chairman of the Committee to also be the Chairman of another Committee at the same time.