1. To exercise the
Council’s responsibilities for overview and scrutiny and
agree each year an operating methodology;
2. To conduct reviews of policy,
services or aspects of service that have either been referred by a
policy committee or the council, relate to the Forward Plan or have
been chosen by the committee according to the agreed criteria for
selecting such reviews;
3. To approve and keep under
review an annual overview and scrutiny work programme, including
the work programme of any scrutiny panels established in accordance
with the Challenge and Improvement Committee work
programme;
4. To approve the scope,
timetable and method for each review by a scrutiny panel to put in
place and ensure that such reviews are monitored and managed
efficiently and in accordance with the Overview and Scrutiny
Procedure Rules;
5. To make reports and
recommendations to the Council, a policy committee or any other
Council committee arising from the exercise of these terms of
reference;
6. To consider the Forward Plan
and comment as appropriate to the relevant Committee on proposed
decisions which relate to services within their remit (before they
are taken by the appropriate policy committee);
7. To exercise the powers of call
in and scrutiny in relation to policy committee decisions made but
not implemented, as set out in section 21(3) of the Local
Government Act 2000 and challenge such decisions in accordance with
the procedure set out in the Overview and Scrutiny Procedure Rules
in Part V of this Constitution;
8. To comment on the proposed
annual service and budget plans for all council services before
final approval by the Corporate Policy and Resources Committee and
Council;
9. To take an overview of the
policies, forward plans and related authorities of all public
bodies and agencies as they affect the council’s area or its
inhabitants;
10. To maintain under review the
arrangements for the performance monitoring of Council
services;
11. To discharge
the statutory functions arising under section 19 of the Police and
Justice Act 2006 relating to issues of crime and disorder and to
develop and implement such procedures, protocols and criteria as
deemed by the Committee to be appropriate.
12. This Committee has an
operating methodology which is agreed annually at its first full
meeting. This is contained within the appendices to the
Constitution.