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Coordinating Scrutiny
The coordinating committee will maintain oversight of scrutiny committee work plans (although committees should continue to set their own work plans) The committee will coordinate the annual report to Council on the activity, impact and effectiveness of scrutiny against its terms of reference and Council objectives. The committee will monitor the Cabinet forward plan and recommend scrutiny of up-coming decisions to individual committees where not already included in work plans. The committee will commission time-limited informal groups to undertake scrutiny of cross-cutting issues in a similar manner to themed reviews, receive recommendations or reports from those groups and make recommendations to Cabinet or Council. The committee will also be responsible for scrutiny of:
The corporate framework Corporate performance Central or ‘corporate’ services (customer strategy and libraries, digital inclusion, ICT, HR, governance and law, procurement) Embedding equalities, diversity and inclusion in the work of scrutiny.
The committee will also be responsible for periodically reviewing the effective structure of scrutiny and proposing adjustments to Council for agreement.