Venue: Committee Room 2 - Civic Centre. View directions
Contact: Daphne Courtenage Democratic Services Officer
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Declarations of interest To receive any declarations of interest from any councillor on any item on this agenda. Minutes: None. |
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Confirmation of minutes PDF 146 KB To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 20 November 2023. Minutes: The minutes of the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee held on 20 November 2023 were confirmed as a correct record by those who were in attendance. |
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Councillor Julie Robinson, Wyre Council’s representative on Lancashire County Council’s Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee, submitted a report to inform members of the work of the committee since May 2023. Minutes: Councillor Julie Robinson, Wyre’s representative on the Lancashire County Council Health and Adult Services Scrutiny Committee, submitted a report detailing the work of the committee since May 2023.
Councillor Robinson attended the meeting and introduced the report.
She gave members details of the health scrutiny committee’s work programme for the rest of the municipal year, with their next meeting on Monday 22 January 2024. Members could view the agenda for this meeting and further meetings on the County Council website, which had been linked in the report.
Councillor Robinson reminded members that they could contact her should they have any issues they wanted brought up at the meetings.
Members raised questions over dentistry, Happier Minds, new hospitals programme and the housing with care and support strategy.
The Chair thanked Councillor Robinson for her attendance at the meeting. |
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Annual update from the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Health Care Board PDF 27 KB Heather Woodhouse, the Integration Place Leader for Lancashire North, has been invited to this meeting to present an update on the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.
Questions have been circulated in advance of this meeting. Minutes: The Democratic Services Officer (DSO) informed members that Heather Woodhouse was unable to attend this meeting due to sickness, and that the ICB would send written responses to the questions submitted (as part of this agenda pack). These would be circulated via email.
It was agreed by members to review the responses to the submitted questions at the next meeting and consider inviting a representative from the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board to a future meeting. |
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Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme 2023/24 – update report PDF 89 KB The Corporate Director Resources, Clare James, has submitted a report updating the committee about the delivery of the Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme 2023/24. Daphne Courtenage, Democratic Services Officer, will introduce the report and respond to questions and comments from councillors. Additional documents: Minutes: The Corporate Director Resources (S151 Officer), Clare James, submitted an update report on the Overview and Scrutiny Work Programme 2023/24.
The DSO, Daphne Courtenage, introduced the report. She drew members’ attention to paragraph 3.3, which gave details of the upcoming work programme workshop on Thursday 22 February 2024. She encouraged members to attend and for all councillors to submit review topic suggestions.
In response to a question, the DSO informed members that to date, no review topics had been submitted other than those already discussed at this committee’s meetings.
Members discussed several potential topics that would be brought to the workshop, including reviewing partnership arrangements, parking meters, tourism strategy and town centre partnerships. Questions were also raised over social housing and performance monitoring.
The DSO also explained the process for the workshop for the benefit of new members on the committee.
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