Issue - meetings

To agree a protocol for joint scrutiny between the partner councils in the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership; to agree the scope for a Joint ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group; and to agree the appointment of three members to the Joint Task and Finish Group (report of Assistant Director – Governance (Monitoring Officer) enclosed).

The Panel considered the report of the Assistant Director – Governance (Monitoring Officer) to agree a protocol for joint scrutiny between the partner councils in the S&ELCP; to agree the scope for a Joint ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group; and to agree the appointment of three members to the Joint Task and Finish Group.

The Assistant Director – Corporate introduced the report and stated that the requirement for annual joint scrutiny was included in the S&ELCP Memorandum of Agreement. 

Scrutiny Chairs and Vice-Chairs across the partnership had met and agreed a joint scrutiny approach, and a range of joint scrutiny topics, pertinent to the Annual Delivery Plan, had been proposed by officers (Appendix C).

The Performance Monitoring Panel had recently agreed to the joint scrutiny proposals and had appointed three members to a joint scrutiny Public Transport Task Group.

Three members of the Policy Development Panel were requested to join the joint ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group, to give feedback on the draft ICT Strategy prior to its submission to Cabinet.

AGREED:

a)    That the proposals for joint scrutiny arrangements, set out in Appendix A, be approved;

b)    That the scope for the proposed Joint ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group, as set out in Appendix B, be approved;

c)    That Councillor P A Redgate and Councillor A C Beal be appointed to the Joint ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group; and that an invitation be forwarded to all members of the Policy Development Panel to seek a third member to join the ICT Strategy Task and Finish Group.

d)    That the Task and Finish Group be authorised to determine the detail of its remit and the required lines of enquiry and witnesses.