The Committee considered its Future Work Programme. Members discussed how items of interest and importance from the current Municipal Year would be taken forward following the Council’s change in governance arrangements.  The Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee would be producing the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report.  The report would highlight the work undertaken by each Committee and the report would be a public document that would be a point of reference going forward.

Members considered its current body of work and its input into the Council’s model for tackling isolation and loneliness.  The Committee would meet as the Crime and Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee in March, this would provide Members with the opportunity to look at the topic from the perspective of community safety and examine interventions that could be made by Community Wardens and the Police.

RESOLVED: that

1.  The Future Work Programme be noted.

2.  The March meeting examine the interventions of Community Safety partners and their effect on tackling social isolation and loneliness faced by older people.