Issue - meetings

Part A

A copy of the draft Forward Work Programme is attached for consideration.

Part B

The committee will note that the Library Services Review has been added to the work programme.

The review involves the re-design and modernisation of the Library Service, including user and non-user focus groups, consultation with Area Boards and a £500,000 savings target achievement.

A report on the Library Services Review will be submitted to Cabinet on 14^th September. In the mean time the Chairman has requested further information from the Service Director for Communities, Libraries, Heritage and Art.

The Committee is invited to determine its preferred approach to scrutinising the Library Services Review.

The Committee was asked to note the forward work programme and to note the information provided on the Library Services Review.

Additional information was also provided that scrutiny had not been involved in the Review, that statements had been issued to all area boards from the Service Director - Communities, Libraries, Heritage and Arts with details of the review and that a projected £500,000 savings target was anticipated over the next two years.

A report by the Service Director – Communities, Libraries, Heritage and Arts on the Library Services Review was to be submitted to Cabinet in October.  The Service Director would be invited to attend a future scrutiny meeting to present the report prior to it’s submission to Cabinet.

Resolved:

That the Service Director – Communities, Libraries, Heritage and Arts would be invited to attend a future meeting of the Select Committee to present the report on the Library Services Review.