Minutes:
The committee discussed its work plan for the coming year. Suggestions included: value for money from the council’s cultural strategy, access to youth justice, fire safety, emergency planning, budget scrutiny and ongoing monitoring on savings in childrens and adults services, regeneration schemes including their environmental aspects and the implications for local public service infrastructure, social regeneration, knife crime – drawing together work to be carried out in 2 sub-committees, Brexit, implications of new government’s legislative programme, check in for progress on the council’s air quality strategy, road safety particularly as it interplays with regeneration
The committee agreed to move its scheduled January 2018 meeting to better accommodate budget scrutiny
The chair agreed to take away topic suggestions and draw up a proposed work programme for the committee to consider