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6.1

The Director of Policy and Democratic
Engagement submitted a report:
 
(a) recognising the important role that the
Strategy and Resources (S&R)  Committee plays in providing strategic
direction to Council’s Policy Committees and in particular
ensuring that cross-cutting policy issues are strategically and
collaboratively managed through Sheffield’s Committee
System;
 
(b) identifying S&R Committee’s role
in supporting and overviewing the workplans of Policy Committees
across the year; and
 
(c) setting out an initial version of the
S&R Committee’s workplan for this year based
on the Strategic Framework that was agreed by
S&R Committee on 31st May
2023.

 

 

6.2

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That
Strategy and Resources Policy Committee:-
 

 

(1) recognises the vital role S&R
Committee plays in supporting and overseeing the
Committee System;
 
(2) welcomes the work that all Policy
Committees have undertaken to date on
developing workplans for the year ahead;
 
(3) agrees the current draft of the Strategy
and Resources Committee Workplan based on the Strategic Framework
for 2023/24 as agreed at the 31st May meeting of this
committee.

 

 

6.3

Reasons for
Decision

 

 

6.3.1

Agreeing a workplan for the S&R Committee
is an important part of the Committee’s responsibilities to
manage work over the coming year and demonstrate to the people of
Sheffield the areas that the Committee will lead and progress this
year.

 

 

6.3.2

As part of Sheffield City Council’s
constitution, citizens have the right to see what
decisions committees will take and when.

 

 

6.4

Alternatives
Considered and Rejected

 

 

6.4.1

Do nothing – this was dismissed as
Policy Committees are required to set out and regularly review
their workplans under the SCC Constitution. It is essential that
citizens, Members and officers are able to see what decisions a
Committee plans to take and when.

 

 

6.4.2

Strategy and Resources Committee to focus only
on its own work plan – this option was rejected as it is
essential that in order to fulfil its
remit the committee is able to coordinate and provide strategic
oversight across the breadth of the other committees’ work
plans.