Issue - meetings

The Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee is under a constitutional duty to prepare an annual report. That report is appended to this paper and it documents the breadth and depth of the Committee’s work over the 2021/22 municipal year.  

Council is RECOMMENDED to: -

Endorse the Joint Committee’s Annual Report

Recommendations agreed nem con

Council had before it the annual report of the Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Regulation 28(1) of the Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 2013 the Council had a duty to “review and scrutinise any matter relating to the planning, provision and operation of the health services in its area”.

As part of this overarching duty it had a duty, enshrined in the Council’s Constitution, to report on its activity over the preceding year in the form of an annual report.

Cllr Jane Hanna presented the report and answered a number of members’ questions

Following debate it was:-

RESOLVED (on a motion from Cllr Jane Hanna, seconded by Cllr Nathan Ley and carried nem con) to endorse the Joint Committee’s annual report