Theme

Item

Lead Officer / Exec Member

Scope

11 June 2025

 

 

Public Meeting

Work-planning for the municipal year 2025/26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9 July 2025

 

 

Meeting Report, Education

SEND Strategy, Update

Maxine Squire/Victoria Coyle/Cllr Webb

 

 

Meeting Report, Communities

Neighbourhood Model, Update

Pauline Stuchfield/Laura Williams/Cllr Pavlovic

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 October 2025


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 December 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 February 2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 April 2026

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unallocated items and items recommended from previous scrutiny committees

 

Item

 

Origin

Lead Officer and Exec Member

Notes

York Learning Annual Update

Children, Culture and Communities Scrutiny Committee (CCC)

Head of Adult Learning Service,

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

 

Neighbourhood Policing Review

CCC

Director of Housing and Communities,

Cllr Pavlovic, Exec. Member for Housing, Planning and Safer Communities

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

School Attendance

CCC

Assistant Director, Education and Skills,

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

 

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

Attainment Gap

CCC

Assistant Director, Education and Skills,

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

Virtual School Annual Report

CCC

Assistant Director, Education and Skills, Virtual School Headteacher,

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

 

Children Safeguarding Partnership Annual Report

 

CCC

Corporate Director of Children and Education,

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

 

Adult Social Care Strategy Update

Health, Housing and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee (HHASC)

Corporate Director ASC and Integration / Director of Adults Safeguarding;

Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC.

Follows previous update to HHASC in October 2024.

Urgent Care Update

HHASC

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC.

Led by ICB colleagues. Follows previous update to HHASC in November 2025.

Healthy Weight

HHASC

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC.

New service offer being launched autumn 2025; suggested could be ready late summer 2025.

Draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025

HHASC

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC.

Consultation details have been shared with members.

Dignity in Retirement Council Motion

HHASC

Cllr Lomas, Executive Member for Finance, Major Projects and Equalities

Follows September 2024 Council Motion: To request that the Executive Member for Finance, Major Projects and Equalities work with officers to create a plan for consideration by the relevant Scrutiny Committee(s) which sets out a range of measures that could be taken to mitigate the impact of the above decisions on York’s pensioners, including maintaining financial support for warm spaces in York through allocation of Household Support Fund grants.

Trauma Informed City Council Motion – possible wider discussion

HHASC

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Follows March 2024 Council Motion and update from TEWV at HHASC in May 2025; specifics yet to be worked out.

Health and Artificial Intelligence – benefits and challenges

HHASC

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Specifics yet to be worked out.

Telecare/reablement technology – briefing from relevant academics

HHASC

Corporate Director ASC and Integration; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Briefing for information only. Follows HHASC members’ telecare demonstration in April 2025.

LD Provision – The Glen and Lowfields

HHASC

Corporate Director ASC and Integration; Corporate Director of Children and Education; Director of Housing and Communities; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC; Cllr Pavlovic, Exec Member for Housing Planning and Safer Communities

Specifics yet to be worked out. (Note that Lowfields not yet built).

Relevant outputs from LGA Peer Review – Housing Partners

HHASC

Director of Housing and Communities; Cllr Pavlovic Exec, Member for Housing Planning and Safer Communities

Suggested that relevant housing partners could be invited to report to the committee; specifics yet to be worked out.

Update on Dentistry Provision

11/06/2025

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

Changes to H&NY ICB

11/06/2025

Director of Public Health; Cllr Steels-Walshaw, Exec Member for Health, Wellbeing and ASC

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

York Hungry Minds – Free School Meal Pilot Update

11/06/2025

Corporate Director of Children and Education, Assistant Director, Education and Skills

Cllr Webb, Exec. Member for Children, Young People and Education

Suggested for briefing, date TBC

Gardening Assistance

11/06/2025

Director of Housing and Communities; Cllr Pavlovic Exec, Member for Housing Planning and Safer Communities

 

Possible Task and Finish Groups

 

Topic

Origin

Aims and objectives

Membership

Food Insecurity

CCC

 

Was previously: Cllrs Knight, Nelson

Education, Health, and Care Plans

CCC

 

Was previously:

Cllrs Clarke, Cuthbertson, Wilson

Home Care Commissioning

HHASC – agreed by the committee in March 2024 but work not yet underway.

To better understand the commissioning of home care in the city, including monitoring, performance, cost, difference within contracts, companies, how the council’s existing policy and social value policy apply to the commissioning and what the Council’s direction of travel, incorporating the Council Plan 2023-2027 will affect the commissioning.

Was previously: Cllrs Myers, Vassie, Baxter

Preparing for proposed changes to long-term sickness and disability benefits

Corporate Scrutiny Committee (CSC), formerly Corporate Services, Climate Change and Scrutiny Management Committee (CSCCSMC), following Council resolution 27/03/2025

To identify likely impacts on the demand for support from the council and its local partners resulting from Government proposals on disability and long-term sickness benefits.

Cllrs Fenton, Runciman, Steward, Coles, J Burton

Review and development of working arrangements with York Youth Council

11/06/2025

 

 

Review of repair service satisfaction with a particular focus on responses from the Housing Annual Survey

11/06/2025