Overview and Scrutiny
Chapter 41: Meeting Procedures for Children and Education Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Section 41.1: Chair and Membership
Sub-Committees will be chaired by a Member of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. For this Sub-Committee it will be the Lead Scrutiny Member for Children and Education. The membership of the Children and Education Scrutiny Sub-Committee has been determined by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
Section 41.2: Frequency of meetings
The Children and Education Scrutiny Sub-Committee will meet 5 times a year. Dates will be published on the Council’s website.
Meetings are scheduled to take place at 6.30pm. The Sub-Committee may arrange other meetings as and when necessary to consider any urgent issues as well as arranging meetings for detailed scrutiny reviews and challenge sessions.
Section 41.3: Support to the Sub-Committee
The Director for Strategy, Transformation and Improvement, will be the senior officer lead and champion the work of the Sub-Committee.
The servicing of meetings will be undertaken by the Council’s Democratic Services Team which will include:
Meeting room bookings, refreshments
Agenda preparation and dispatch
Taking minutes and recording of actions/decisions
Dissemination of minutes and decisions
The Strategy and Communities Team Strategy and Policy Team will provide policy support to the Sub-Committee which will include:
Research and analysis
Work programme development
Support with undertaking reviews and challenge sessions
Drafting review reports and challenge sessions
Section 41.4: Proceedings
The Children and Education Scrutiny Sub-Committee will generally meet in public and conduct its proceedings in accordance with the rules and procedure contained in the Council’s Constitution such as the:
Council Procedure Rules;
Access to Information Procedure Rules, and
The Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules.