Issue - meetings

The Board received the draft Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2010-11 for information. 

Members raised concerns and discussed in detail, the workload of the Board in the context of support received from Committee Services Officers, following the amalgamation of the four Boards earlier in the year.  A major concern was the ability to carry out additional investigations and task groups outside of the work programme.  Officers confirmed that one Committee Services Officer supported the Board and this had been agreed at full Council as part of the final budget settlement in February 2011.  Officers confirmed that from a financial point there was an option for Board Members to recommend to Cabinet and then through to full Council, for additional resources to be made available, if the Board feel that the current support was not sufficient for the Board to carry out its work successfully.