Agenda item

This draft final report details the work undertaken by the Ward Funding Scrutiny Review Task Group, and presents their draft review recommendations for this Committee’s consideration.

Members gave consideration to the draft final report of the Ward Funding Scrutiny Review.  The Chair of the Task Group went through the main findings and drew Members’ attention to the draft review recommendations, as detailed in paragraphs 32 and 33 of the report.  

Members expressed their support for the recommendations contained within the report and agreed that they would wish to the committee to receive an update on their implementation six months after the report had been considered by the Executive.

The Chair thanked the Task Group members and the officers who had supported the review for the work they had carried out.

Resolved:  (i)      That the report and its recommendations be

                             approved.

(ii)      That an update of the implementation of the task group recommendations be reported to the committee in six months time.

Reasons:   (i)      To conclude the review in line with scrutiny

procedures and protocols, and to enable the review final report to be presented to a future meeting of the Executive in March 2017.

(ii)      To enable the committee to monitor the implementation of the recommendations.