The Scrutiny Officer presented the recommendations of this Committee, the Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committees and the Budget Research and Evaluation Panel for 2017-18.  The annual monitoring of all recommendations made by scrutiny will detail the items that have been raised and discussed throughout the year and provide an opportunity for Members to determine which topics they wish to revisit or those which remain a concern to provide a foundation for setting the 2018-19 Forward Work Programme. 

The Committee was requested to review the outcomes and impacts which Scrutiny has made during the previous year.

The Committee requested that in future years each Committee only receives the recommendations relevant to their own Committee.  The Committee was satisfied with the format and timeliness as to how requests for further information are responded to.

The Committee requested that as part of the review of the referrals process that the level of dissatisfaction in the way services are delivered is considered as the Committee wished to see greater visibility in the Corporate Plan to address levels of dissatisfaction in service delivery and whether there are common themes in order to improve service delivery.  The Committee considered that the Service and Performance Update reports which are reported to the Democratic Services Committee could be shared with this Committee. 

The Committee considered that it wished to see the Waste Contract revisited as part of the Forward Work Programme.              

Conclusions

The Committee recommend that when presenting future recommendations and their responses, that they be allocated and portrayed to the relevant Committee and any comments are then collated and fed back to the Corporate Committee.

Following a discussion in relation to Member Referrals, the Committee recommend that a comprehensive evaluation of all referrals be undertaken.  Members confirmed that this would highlight common themes of dissatisfaction and provide key topics that should be considered by Scrutiny.