Issue - meetings

Report by Robin Townsend, Associate Director, Corporate Function, Procurement and Programme Office

In accordance with paragraph 41 of Part 8 of the Constitution (Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules), Council received a report which detailed the decision to exempt decisions by Cabinet at its meeting on 14 June 2016 regarding the ‘Help to Live at Home Service Commissioning’ from the Scrutiny call-in process due to the need to complete the decision making process urgently, with the full reasons for urgency being detailed in the report presented..

It was noted that such an exemption from the call-in process was exercised only in very exceptional circumstances and this was in fact the first time it had been used since at least the Council became a unitary authority in 2009.

In response to an issue raised by Councillor Chris Caswill, Councillor Jerry Wickham stated that he would give a response under the Councillor Questions item later on the agenda.

Resolved:

That Council notes that the Cabinet decisions, namely in relation to  ‘Help to Live at Home Service Commissioning’ dated 14 June 2016, were determined as matters of urgency thereby exempting them from the Scrutiny call-in process, in the interests of the Council and the public and for the reasons outlined in the report presented.