Agenda and minutes

It was noted that following receipt of the temporary resignation of Councillor Tucker from the Panel, the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, acting under delegated powers, had appointed Councillor Lewzey to replace him for the purposes of this meeting.

To elect the Chair and Vice Chair for the remainder of the Municipal Year 2014/15.

RESOLVEDthat Councillor Keogh be elected as Chair and Councillor McEwing be elected as Vice-Chair for the remainder of the Municipal Year 2014/2015.

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive setting out the terms of reference for the Children and Families Scrutiny Panel, attached.

The Panel noted the report of the Assistant Chief Executive setting out the terms of reference, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report.

Report of the Director, People, setting out the first Annual report detailing the priorities and service delivery vehicle for the City’s Children and Families service provision, attached.

The Panel considered the report of the Director, People, on the first Annual report detailing the priorities and service delivery vehicle for the City’s Children and Families service provision.

The Interim Head of Children and Families, together with the Director, People gave a broad overview of the current issue and the plan for the future.  Together with how the Service had been reorganised to ensure that there were the best possible outcomes.

RESOLVED that a programme would be developed for the Panel to target one area of the Annual report per meeting.

The following dates were agreed for future meetings, which would all commence at 5.30pm:

30^th April, 2015;

25^th June, 2015

20^th August, 2015;

22^nd October, 2015;

17^th December, 2015;

18^th February, 2016; and

21^st April, 2016