Meeting Date

Agenda Items

Details and desired outcome

11 June 2013

·         Appointment of Chairman and Vice-Chairman

·         Work programming workshop

·         Leader & Cabinet Member Priorities for 2013/14 Municipal Year

·         Appoint Chairman and Vice-Chairman for 2013-14

·         Ascertain work plan for the year and strategic direction for the Council & Select and develop review topics focusing on achievable outcomes.

16 July 2013

·         Cabinet Member Priorities for 2013/14 Municipal Year

·         Draft report: Approval of a new Play Area Strategic Standard

·         To consider the Cabinet Update and make recommendations as appropriate

·         To consider the report and make recommendations as appropriate

13 August 2013

·         CCTV Protocol

·         Collective Switching of Energy Supplier Service for Householders

·         Eco Pilot

·         Draft Health Inequalities Action Plan

• To consider the report and make recommendations as appropriate

10 September 2013

• Health Inequalities (Mental Health) Review

• To interview the witness invited to the meeting and participate in a ‘act finding’ discussion as part of evidence gathering for the review topic.

8 October 2013

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

29 October 2013

Acting as the Crime & Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee

• Mental Health and the Police and frontline services

• The Committee will be acting as the Crime and Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee interviewing the witness invited to the meeting and participate in a ‘fact finding’ discussion as part of evidence gathering its review topic (Mental Health). Witnesses will include the Safer Maidstone Partnership.

12 November 2013

• Homelessness Strategy Review

• The Committee to consider the findings of the Homelessness Strategy Review, interviewing witnesses from a national and local level to establish the needs of Maidstone.  The Committee will need to consider when the Homelessness Strategy will return to it, pre-decision, before its adoption.

10 December 2013

• POSTPONED Pilot Street Triage Scheme – Health Inequalities (Mental Health) Review

• UPDATE Eco Homes Pilot

• To interview the Mental Health nursing staff and Police Officers involved in the pilot scheme.  To establish the positive outcomes of the scheme and any gaps that have been identified.

• To consider the update from officers, making recommendations as appropriate.

14 January 2014

• Draft Play Areas Strategy

INFORMATION UPDATE: Health Inequalities (Mental Health) Review – follow up interviews with the Clinical Commissioning Group.  To take place on 30 January at 7pm (Town Hall, Room B).

• To consider the report and make recommendations as appropriate

11 February 2014

Acting as the Crime & Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee

(Possible topics: Road Safety in response to the KCC Consultation - Road Casualty Reduction Strategy for Kent & Revisions to Maidstone Protocols for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership Overview and Scrutiny)

11 March 2014

• Air Quality Action Plan
• Draft Homelessness Strategy (TBC)
• Follow up on Scrutiny Waste Review and the new Waste Contract.

8 April 2014

·         Evaluations of Cabinet Member Priorities for 2013/14 Municipal Year