Date of Meeting	Item	Lead Officer / Exec Member	Scope
11 June 2025
	Work-planning for the municipal year 2025/26		Work planning
9 July 2025
	SEND Strategy, Update	Maxine Squire/Victoria Coyle/Cllr Webb	Update report
17 September 2025	Informal work planning meeting		To consider allocation of work plan items
8 October 2025
	Neighbourhood Model	Pauline Stuchfield/Laura Williams/Cllr Pavlovic	Pre-decision scrutiny
	Adult Social Care Strategy	Sara Storey/Michael Melvin/Elaine Taylor/Cllr Steels-Walshaw	Update report
	York Learning 24-25 strategic plan performance	Angela Padfield	Annual update report
3 December 2025
	York Hungry Minds – Free School Meal Pilot Update	Maxine Squire/Cllr Webb	Update report
	Early Years and Childcare Reforms update	Maxine Squire/Cllr Webb	Update report
	New Housing Tenancy and Rent Policies	Pauline Stuchfield/Andrew Bebbington/Cllr Pavlovic	Pre-decision scrutiny
17 March 2026 (Postponed from 11 February)	CYC CQC Report	Sara Storey/Michael Melvin/Cllr Steels-Walshaw
	Carers’ Strategy	Sara Storey/Harriet Smith/Cllr Steels-Walshaw	Pre-decision scrutiny
	2026/27 Ward Funding Allocations	Pauline Stuchfield/Cllr Pavlovic	Pre-decision scrutiny
15 April 2026	City of York Safeguarding Adults Board Strategy and Annual Report	Jane Timson/Cllr Steels-Walshaw	Update report
	(TBC) PSPO Expansion	Pauline Stuchfield/Tanya Lyon/Cllr Pavlovic	Pre-decision scrutiny
	Food Insecurity Task and Finish Group Draft Report		Task and Finish report

Scrutiny Member Briefing Sessions

· Thursday 21 October 2025 (Library Needs Assessment)

· Thursday 4 December 2025 (Healthy Weight/Capital Project Management)

· Thursday 26 February 2026 (Digital Switchover)

· Thursday 16 April 2026 (School Attendance and Attainment Gap/Community Woodland Update)

Items selected for Scrutiny Member Briefings by Scrutiny Review Working Group (SRWG)

Item	Origin	Lead Officer and Exec Member	Notes	Type of Scrutiny
Healthy Weight	HHASC	Phil Truby/Peter Roderick/Cllr Steels-Walshaw	Briefing held December 2025; new service offer launching in the new year.	Briefing ahead of potential committee item early autumn 2026.
School Attendance and Attainment Gap	CCC	Maxine Squire/Cllr Webb	Scheduled for briefing session April 2026.	Briefing
Changes to Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB)	People Scrutiny, 11/06/2025	Peter Roderick/ Cllr Steels-Walshaw/ICB colleagues	Briefing to be requested when position is clearer; municipal year 2026/27.	Briefing

Other items previously suggested for briefings

Item	Origin	Lead Officer and Exec Member	Notes	Type of Scrutiny
Children Safeguarding Partnership Annual Report	CCC	Maxine Squire/ Cllr Webb	Briefing shared with members via email.	Annual Report
Draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025	HHASC	Peter Roderick/Cllr Steels-Walshaw	Briefing only; consultation details have been shared with members.	Briefing
Urgent Care Update	HHASC	Peter Roderick/ Cllr Steels-Walshaw/ICB colleagues	Follows previous update to HHASC in November 2025. Suggested for 2026/27.	Briefing
Trauma Informed City Council Motion – possible wider discussion	HHASC	Peter Roderick/Cllr Steels-Walshaw,	Follows March 2024 Council Motion and update from TEWV at HHASC in May 2025; suggested for 26-27.	Briefing
Virtual School Annual Report	CCC	Maxine Squire/ Cllr Webb	Already considered by Corporate Parenting Board, would be ‘to note’ only.	Annual Report
Update on Dentistry Provision	People Scrutiny, 11/06/2025	Peter Roderick/ Cllr Steels-Walshaw/ICB colleagues	Suggested late 2026; follows reports to HHASC in Dec 2023 and April 2025.	Briefing
Gardening Assistance	People Scrutiny, 11/06/2025	Pauline Stuchfield/ Cllr Pavlovic	Suggested for briefing on assistance offered and closure of list.	Briefing

Unallocated items referred from previous scrutiny committees

Item	Origin	Lead Officer and Exec Member	Notes	Type of Scrutiny
Neighbourhood Policing Review	CCC	Pauline Stuchfield/ Cllr Pavlovic	Suggested for committee report, date TBC	TBC
Dignity in Retirement Council Motion	HHASC	Cllr Lomas	Follows September 2024 Council Motion.	TBC

Agreed Task and Finish Groups

Topic	Origin	Aims and objectives	Membership
Food Insecurity Draft report April 2026 TBC	CCC, following Council resolution 20/07/2023	‘Request that the council’s scrutiny function undertakes a review of community food growing opportunities and makes recommendations to Executive to expand these opportunities, including considering the prospects for expanding an Edible York project in Tang Hall to other parts of the city to bring more underused gardens into use for food growing’	Cllr Knight Cllr Nelson
Preparing for proposed changes to long-term sickness and disability benefits	Corporate Scrutiny Committee (CSC), following Council resolution 27/03/2025	Full details at https://democracy.york.gov.uk/documents/s183012/Annex%20A%20Task%20and%20Finish%20Proposal%20v0.3.pdf Date for consideration of draft report TBC	Cllr Fenton Cllr Runciman Cllr Steward Cllr Coles Cllr J Burton
Joint Task and Finish Group with Corporate Scrutiny Committee to look at financial challenges within Adult Social Care	CSC 19 January 2026 – approved as recommendation of Budget and MTFS TFG	Remit TBC pending initial scoping meeting. CSC is parent committee.	Cllr Ayre Cllr Burton Cllr Moroney Cllr Nicholls Cllr Runciman

Possible Task and Finish Groups

Topic	Origin	Aims and objectives	Membership
Home Care Commissioning	HHASC	Agreed by the committee in March 2024 but work not yet underway.	Was previously: Cllrs Myers, Vassie, Baxter
Review and development of working arrangements with York Youth Council	11/06/2025	TBC	TBC
Review of repair service satisfaction	11/06/2025	Cllr Waller developing proposal; Chair and Vice Chair to discuss with officers	TBC