Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive.

The Committee received a report of the Assistant Chief Executive which provided for Members consideration an updated draft work programme for the Corporate Issues Overview and Scrutiny Committee for 2015/16 (for copy see file of minutes).

The Head of Planning and Performance advised members that the Attendance Management Light Touch/In Depth Review was underway. She also referred to a potential scrutiny on the CRM which would involve the whole committee but this had not been added to the work programme at this stage.

Councillor Wilkes referred to the Budget and Medium Term Financial Plan Process on page 80 of the report and indicated that he was concerned that September 2015 to March 2016 was not giving the committee enough time to feed in to the Medium Term Financial Plan. He also referred to the amount of reserves and asked that this be looked at in more detail and could some of the reserves be allocated to services. He asked that audit investigate the matter and report back to the committee.

Councillor Armstrong responded that the financial settlement would not be received until January 2016 so they had a tight deadline. He agreed if there were concerns with reserves Directors could give reasons which the Scrutiny Committee could look at.

Resolved:

That the work programme be agreed.