Governance and Scrutiny Committee

14 September 2023

In general terms, it is the purpose of the Governance and Scrutiny Committee, within the Council's decision making arrangements to consider, examine, scrutinise, challenge and question matters in relation to service delivery by the Council and its partners and certain aspects of how the Council conducts its business.

View further information on the purpose of the Governance and Scrutiny Committee .

Parallel to that it is important that the work of the Committee is carried out in an open and transparent manner, and is accessible to the public and communities that we serve.

Let us know what you think about the work of our Governance and Scrutiny Committee by completing the short questionnaire below.

  • Video recordings of meetings
  • 1. How many video recordings of the Council’s Governance and Scrutiny Committee meetings have you watched online? (video recordings of all meetings from September 2021 are available to view online)
  • 3. Do you normally watch the recordings of full meetings or only parts of meetings?
  • 4. Do you think that being able to view online video recordings of the Governance and Scrutiny Committee meetings is an important tool in promoting openness, transparency and access to the work of the Committee?
  • Understanding of the purpose of the Committee
  • 5. Based on your online, or other, viewing of meetings of the Governance and Scrutiny Committee, or your knowledge of the Committee otherwise, how would you rate your understanding, on a scale of 0 to 10, of the purpose of the Committee?
  • Role/effectiveness of Committee members
  • 7. An important resource for members of the Governance and Scrutiny Committee is reports by Officers which are submitted to Committee meetings. Based on reports submitted to meetings in the past, do you think that the nature and content of such reports is sufficient to enable and assist members to effectively undertake their role at Committee meetings?
  • 8. Do you think that, overall, it has been demonstrated that the members of the Committee are effectively undertaking their role at meetings, in line with the purposes of the Committee, as mentioned above?
  • Role/effectiveness of the Committee
  • 10. Do you think that, overall, it has been demonstrated that the Committee is effective in undertaking its role within the Council's decision making arrangements?
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