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Work Programme 2024/25, Scrutiny Review Topics and Key Decision Forward Plan

 

 

Meeting: 25/06/2024 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Skills) (Item 6)

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Report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer that sought views on the draft Work Programme for 2024/25; the identification of potential topics for scrutiny reviews to be undertaken by informal meetings of the Committee; the identification of any items for pre-scrutiny by the Committee from the Key Decision Forward Plan; that updated on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee; that sought a potential date for an informal meeting of the Committee to consider the provision of housing for former looked after children who were now care leavers; and that sought a decision on whether the Committee wished to pursue, at an informal meeting of the Committee, the topic of the formal and informal processes for engagement between officers at the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCR CA) and at Sefton Council, relating to the review, approval, funding, development and implementation of strategies, policies and projects. This relates to both regionally-led (LCR CA-led) and locally-led (Sefton Council-led) proposals.

 

Members of the Committee asked questions/commented on the following issues:

 

·       The benefits of holding informal meetings rather than formal Working Groups to review topics

·       The ability to update the Committee’s Work Programme at each meeting

·       The operation of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)

 

the Work Programme for 2024/25, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, be approved;

 

(2)

the Chief Legal and Democratic Services Officer be requested to liaise with Members regarding the selection of a date to hold an informal meeting of the Committee to consider the provision of housing for former looked after children who were now care leavers; and that it be agreed that the informal meeting be held using Microsoft Teams;

 

(3)

Sefton’s appointed Members on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee be requested to raise the issues, at that Committee, of the formal and informal processes for engagement between officers at the Combined Authority and at Sefton Council, relating to the review, approval, funding, development and implementation of strategies, policies and projects. This relates to both regionally-led (LCR CA-led) and locally-led (Sefton Council-led) proposals; rather than the matter be dealt with at an informal meeting of the Committee; and

 

(4)

the update on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee be noted.