OSC/Cabinet Member workshop – 23 July 2014

Ideas/Comments generated

Joint work that will be required between OSC members and Cabinet for OSC reviews to be successful:

• Take Scrutiny out and about – e.g. site visits
• Produce evidence based recommendations
• Look at all the options for policy development
• Active members
• Rapporteurs – subject lead member/champion (at the beginning of the process)
• Meetings with Chair/Vice Chair (or lead member from committee) and Cabinet member and officers as required
• Use the Parliamentary Outreach service
• Engage with the community
• Cabinet ‘coffee mornings’
• Cabinet members to attend OSC meetings regularly
• Non-political OSC – needs reinforcing
• FWP workshops held in June were out of the public eye – not sure that was the best way
• O&S should be member led – not officer led
• Pre/post meetings – Chair, V Chair and Cabinet member and (as necessary) officers
• Improve the quality of reports and information provided
• O&S to decide what they want to know from reports
• Chairmen to appoint committee report experts
• Revisit the definition of a quality recommendation
• Chairmen to appoint a member to have responsibility for following up on recommendations
• Regular SCRAIP review report on agenda
• Follow up on external recommendations built into procedures