Agenda item

This report presents information gathered to date in support on the scrutiny review of Disabled Access to York’s Heritage & Cultural Offer, together with the Task Group’s draft recommendations for their consideration.

Members considered a report which presented information gathered to date in support on the scrutiny review of Disabled Access to York’s Heritage & Cultural Offer, together with the Task Group’s draft recommendations for their consideration.

A updated copy of the draft final report had been circulated to Task Group Members which showed some changes to the wording of the proposed recommendations based on feedback which had been received from the Assistant Director since the report had been published as part of the agenda papers. Members were advised that these changes ensured that each recommendation was appropriately attributed to the correct organisation taking into account the shift of the council’s cultural team to the new ‘Make it York’ organisation. Members were asked to consider if any further changes were required to the draft final report and specifically the draft recommendations.

With regard to the wording of the report, it was suggested that  paragraph 2 be expanded to provide more detail on the background to the topic being put forward for review by Councillor Barnes.

Members discussed the draft recommendations in detail and agreed amendments to the wording of some of the recommendations.  The Scrutiny Officer explained that the suggested order was to make it clear that some of the recommendations were directed to the City of York Council and some to Make it York and also to reflect the significance of some recommendations over others. Councillor Barnes felt that it would be better to list the City of York Council recommendations first followed by the Make it York recommendations and other members confirmed they were happy with this arrangement.

Resolved: 

(i)           That the amendments to the draft final report be agreed.

(ii)     That the draft recommendations listed in paragraphs 82-84 of the report be agreed, subject to the amendments to specific recommendations and the order of the recommendations agreed by members

Reason:  To conclude the work on this review in line with scrutiny procedures and protocols thereby enabling this draft final report to be presented at the next meeting of the full Learning & Culture Overview & Scrutiny Committee.