Agenda and minutes

The Chairman welcomed Councillor D B Dew as a new Member of the Panel.

To receive from Members declarations as to disclosable pecuniary or other interests in relation to any Agenda Item. Please see Notes below.

No declarations were received.

To resolve:-

that the press and public be excluded from the meeting because the business to be transacted contains exempt information relating to

(a)   the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); and

(b)  consultation or negotiations in connection with labour relation matters between the Council and its employees.

To resolve:-

  that the press and public be excluded from the meeting because the business to be transacted contains exempt information relating to

(a)  the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information); and

(b)  consultation or negotiations in connection with labour relations between the Council and its employees. 

Please refer to the attached Process Note.

Members are reminded of their responsibilities under the Code of Conduct in respect of the treatment of confidential matters. In addition, if there are any questions/requests for additional information, then please raise them in advance of the meeting with the relevant Officer.

(Councillor R Howe, Executive Councillor for Healthy and Active Communities, was in attendance for consideration of this item).

(Councillors T V Rogers and R J West were also in attendance for consideration of this item).

The Panel considered the strategic service review templates for the Health Protection, Community Health and One Leisure services (copies of which are appended in the annex to the Minute Book). Following discussion, Members agreed upon their recommendations to the Cabinet on the services’ priority areas for implementation or further investigation.

At the conclusion of the meeting, the Chairman reported that a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Chairmen would be held on 18th December 2013 to review the outcome of the Facing the Future exercise to date. An update on progress would be delivered to the Panel at its January 2014 meeting.