Issue - meetings

The Overview and Scrutiny (O&S) Board is asked to consider and identify work priorities for publication in a Forward Plan.

The Chair of the Board presented a report a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'D' to these minutes in the Minute Book. The Chair advised the Board that it needed to consider and identify its priorities for future meetings. The Board was advised that preparations for work programming workshops were underway but would not be completed in time for the next few meetings. The Chair commented that at present the Cabinet FP was not where it need to be but this was being worked on in order to better assist in future planning. A number of items were suggested for the next meeting of the Board including:

• Library Strategy
• Planning Performance
• MTFP update
• Best Value Notice Progress Report

The following items were suggested for the Board meeting in December:

• Local plan draft – critical issue for Council.
• BCP Community Safety partnership
• O&S Function, Plan of action - review and monitor

The Board were reminded that further work was needed to further develop the Board’s Work Plan and consider what type of scrutiny body the Board wanted to be.

The Chair also put forward a suggestion for two working groups:

The first being to consider a lack of corporate complaints data collection and how this could be measured and the second was to consider an external assurance review of the business plans of external companies and organisations. Volunteers were requested to put themselves forward for each of the working groups.

The dates outlined for future meetings of the Board were agreed as follows:

13 November 2023

4 December 2023

8 January 2024

29 January 2024

26 February 2024

2 April 2024