Issue - items at meetings - REVIEW OF INTERNAL MEMBER FORA

To progress the review of internal informal fora such as panels and working groups.

(a) That the Committee recommends to Council that the Planning Delegations Forum be discontinued and that the Planning and Development Control agenda be distributed to Members a week in advance of the meeting;

(b) That the Committee report to Council the above recommendations to Executive in relation to:-

Joint Consultative Committee

School Performance Monitoring Group

Member/Officer Tenant Working Group

Voluntary Sector Grants Panel

Inclusion Service Steering Group

Welsh in Education Strategic Forum

Foster Care Panel

Children’s Forum

Adoption Panel

Health and Safety Board

Teachers Consultative Committee

Flintshire County Council Teachers Consultative Committee

ICT Panel

Waste Strategy Review Board

Procurement Board

(c) That more detail be provided on the terms of reference and membership of the proposed and reconstituted ICT Panel at the next meeting of the County Council.

The Democracy and Governance Manager introduced the report to progress the review of internal member informal fora such as panels and working groups. He provided background information and advised that appended to the report was a list of the member fora remaining within the review together with an indication as to whether or not each forum was discharging an executive or a council function.

The Chairman asked that consideration be given to each of the fora as detailed in the report. During discussion Officers responded to the observations and queries raised by Members concerning individual bodies. Members agreed that the following be recommended to continue:

· Joint Consultative Committee

· School Performance Monitoring Group

· Member/Officer Tenant Working Group

· Voluntary Sector Grants Panel

· Inclusion Service Steering Group

· Welsh in Education Strategic Forum

· Foster Care Panel

· Children’s Forum

· Adoption Panel

· Health and Safety Board

In addition Members agreed that the Teachers Consultative Committee and the Flintshire County Council Teachers Consultative Committee be combined and for the combined body to cover all education staff, not just teachers. It was further recommended that the ICT Panel be reconstituted and that more detail be provided on the terms of reference and membership for the next meeting of the County Council.

Members recommended that the following bodies be discontinued:

· The Planning Delegations Body

· Waste Strategy Review Board

· Procurement Board

Members agreed that as a consequence of the decision that the Planning Delegations Body be discontinued that the Planning and Development Control agenda should be distributed to Members a week in advance of the meeting.

RESOLVED: