Maidstone Borough Council
Communities, Leisure Services and Environment
Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Tuesday 8 April 2014
Future Work Programme and SCRAIP Update
Report of: Tessa Mallett, Overview and Scrutiny Officer
1. Introduction
1.1 To consider the Committee’s future work programme.
1.2 To consider the SCRAIP updates.
1.3 To consider the List of Forthcoming Decisions.
1.4 To consider the information update given by the Chairman.
2. Recommendation
2.1 That the Committee considers the draft future work programme, attached at Appendix A, to ensure it is appropriate and covers all issues Members currently wish to consider within the Committee’s remit. Any items on the draft future work programme, highlighted in bold, are provisional items for the Committee to approve.
2.2 The following items have been suggested over the past few months and have been provisionally noted in the future work programme as follows:
· Older Persons Services – to include:
o Elderly information services
o Provision for dementia care, and;
o Care home provision.
· Revisit of the Welfare Reforms
· The night time economy
· Annual refresh of the health Inequalities Action Plan – March 2015
· Revisit Community Toileting Scheme
o Is info on MBC web site updated?
o How many organisations take part
o How many new organisations taking part?
o Potential sponsorship
o RADAR facilities
· Update on Accessing Mental Health Before the Point of Crisis – September 2014
2.3 That the Committee note the SCRAIP responses attached at Appendix B, including:
· Draft Casualty Reduction Strategy Consultation (meeting 11 Feb 2014)
· Maidstone Community Safety Partnership Plan 2013-15 (meeting 11 Feb 2014)
· Refresh Protocols for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (meeting 11 Feb 2014)
· Making Waste Work for Maidstone final update (meeting 11 Mar 2014)
2.4 That the Committee considers the sections of the List of Forthcoming Decisions relevant to the Committee at Appendix C and discuss whether any items require further investigation or monitoring by the Committee.
2.5 That the Committee considers its continuous professional development needs and recommends possible training or development sessions it would like to undertake.
3 Future Work Programme
3.1 Throughout the course of the municipal year the Committee is asked to put forward work programme suggestions. These suggestions are planned into its annual work programme. Members are asked to consider the work programme at each meeting to ensure it remains appropriate and covers all issues Members currently wish to consider within the Committee’s remit.
3.2 The Committee is reminded that the Constitution states under Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules number 9: Agenda items that ‘Any Member of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee or Sub-Committee shall be entitled to give notice to the proper officer that he wishes an item relevant to the functions of the Committee or Sub-Committee to be included on the agenda for the next available meeting. On receipt of such a request the proper officer will ensure that it is included on the next available agenda.’
4 List of Forthcoming Decisions
4.1 The List of Forthcoming Decisions (Appendix C) is a live document containing all key and non-key decisions.
4.2 Due to the nature of the List of Forthcoming Decisions, and to ensure the information provided to the Committee is up to date, a verbal update will be given at the meeting by the Chairman. The Committee can view the live document online at: http://meetings.maidstone.gov.uk/mgListPlans.aspx?RPId=443&RD=0
5. Impact on Corporate Objectives
5.1 The Committee will consider reports that deliver against the following Council priority:
· ‘For Maidstone to be a decent place to live’.
5.2 The Strategic Plan sets the Council’s key objectives for the medium term and has a range of objectives which support the delivery of the Council’s priorities.