Decision details

The Cabinet agree the Health and Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel’s recommendations, as set out in the panel report (attached as Appendix A) and paragraph 6.5 of the report, taking into account the comments of the Statutory Scrutiny Officer.

1.     It is the role of the SSO to advise the Council on any issues or concerns that may arise about the operation of the scrutiny function and the SSO may on occasion be required to make a determination about what the law says and how this should be applied to any particular situation. In carrying out this statutory role, there is a need to have a nuanced and meaningful understanding of the scrutiny function in order to accurately make judgments about its operation when disagreements or other issues arise.

2.     The SSO is responsible for ensuring that the scrutiny function is adequately resourced and that service departments and partners are contributing sufficiently to reviews to ensure that they are effective.

3.     The SSO is also responsible for providing advice to the Commission on whether the recommendations within review reports are robust, taking account of resource, legal, climate change, equalities, health and wellbeing and strategic risk implications.

The Cabinet could decide:

·       to agree the recommendations as set out in the panel’s report

·       to agree the recommendations in part

·       to ask for further work to be recognising that this would delay the panel’s next

piece of work

to note the panel report

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