Issue - meetings

Updates from Panel Chairmen

Meeting: 20/11/2008 - Overview and Scrutiny Commission (Item 50)

Updates from Panel Chairmen

To receive verbal updates from Overview and Scrutiny Panel Chairmen and the Vice Chairman of the Joint East Berkshire Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

 

HOLDING THE EXECUTIVE TO ACCOUNT

Minutes:

Environment, Culture & Communities O&S Panel

  • The final report for the Review of Street Cleaning was complete.
  • The Working Group on Waste had now reached the draft report stage
  • The Working Group on the Housing Strategy was progressing.

 

Social Care and Learning O&S Panel

  • Extended schools: an initial draft of the report had been completed, but more work was required on it.
  • The Social Care Modernisation Working Group would soon be in a position to commence report drafting.

 

Health O&S Panel

  • The Chairman stated that there were a number of areas that working groups could consider in the future such as; top slicing of the PCT budget by the Strategic Health Authority and Drug Prescription Charges.