To consider a report of the Governance Committee on Responsibility for Scrutiny of Issues relating to the Children and Families Act 2014 (attached).

Report AGREED without division.

A report of the Governance Committee recommended a slight change to the Constitution in order to clarify that the responsibility for scrutiny of issues relating to the Children and Families Act 2014 was solely that of the Children and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Sub-Committee. This reflected the requirements of the Act to provide continuing care services, if required, from 0-25 years.

The report was AGREED without division.

RESOLVED:

That the following changes be incorporated into the Constitution:

The section of the table in Part 3, section 1.4 of the Constitution dealing with the areas of responsibility of the Children & Learning Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee be amended so that the following text is added to the areas of responsibility of the Sub-Committee: 

“Issues relating to the Children and Families Act 2014”

The Committee was invited to consider a report containing details about proposals to make a minor change to the Constitution to make it clear that responsibility for scrutiny of issues related to the Children and Families Act 2014 was solely that of the Children and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Sub-Committee

This change was to add some clarifying wording to the existing text.

The Committee accordingly agreed to:

Recommend to Council that:

The section of the table in Part 3, section 1.4 of the Constitution dealing with the areas of responsibility of the Children & Learning Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee be amended so that the following text was added to the areas of responsibility of the Sub-Committee: 

“Issues relating to the Children and Families Act 2014”