Agenda

To invite Councillors to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and / or Other Disclosable Interests they may have in items on the agenda, and to confirm the nature of those interests, and to declare any Party Whip.

The minutes of the meeting of Overview and Scrutiny Committee which took place on 16^th of March 2026 will be considered at this meeting.

To invite members of the public who have registered in advance of the meeting to address the Committee in relation to an item of business on the agenda.

This report will follow in supplementary papers after it has been published for the meeting of the Executive Committee (due for publication on Monday 1 June 2026).

This report will follow in supplementary papers after it has been published for the meeting of the Executive Committee (due for publication on Monday 1 June 2026).

This report will follow in supplementary papers after it has been published for the meeting of the Executive Committee (due for publication on Monday 1 June 2026).

The latest version of the Executive Work Programme will be published on 1 June 2026 and will be published in supplementary papers for this meeting.

Overview and Scrutiny Committee is asked to consider the attached Budget Scrutiny Working Group Terms of Reference and to appoint five Members to sit on the Working Group.

Overview and Scrutiny Committee is asked to consider the attached Performance Scrutiny Working Group Terms of Reference and to appoint five Members to sit on the Working Group

Overview and Scrutiny Members are asked to consider whether they wish the Post-16 Education Task Group investigation to continue in the 2026-27 municipal year and, if so, to appoint to the 4 positions on the Task Group that are currently vacant.

Attached is the Post-16 Education Task Group’s scoping document that details the agreed remit of work for this Task Group.

Should it be necessary, in the opinion of the Chief Executive, during the course of the meeting to consider excluding the public from the meeting on the grounds that exempt information is likely to be divulged, it may be necessary to move the following resolution:

“That, under S.100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following matter(s) – to be specified - on the grounds that it/they involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the relevant paragraphs (to be specified) of Part 1 of Schedule 12 (A) of the said Act”.

These paragraphs are as follows:

Subject to the “public interest” test, information relating to:

·         Para 1 – any individual;

·         Para 2 – the identity of any individual;

·         Para 3 – financial or business affairs;

·         Para 4 – labour relations matters;

·         Para 5 – legal professional privilege;

·         Para 6 –  a notice, order or direction;

·         Para 7 – the prevention, investigation or prosecution of crime;

and may need to be considered as ‘exempt’.

This report will follow in supplementary papers after it has been published for the meeting of the Executive Committee (due for publication on Monday 1 June 2026).

This report is due to contain exempt information and may need to be considered in exempt (closed) session.