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.