HEREFORDSHIRE
COUNCIL'S OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE
Council on 28 September 2012
decided that this Overview & Scrutiny Committee be replaced by
two Committees namely: General Overview and Scrutiny Committee and
Health and Social Care Overview& Scrutiny Committee. These can
be accessed by
selecting an appropriate year in the drop down box and then
selecting the committee from the refreshed list of
committees.
History of this
Committee
As from the Council meeting on
Friday 27 May 2011 the Overview and Scrutiny Committee was the sole
scrutiny committee and had responsibility for all the
Council’s Scrutiny functions.
(Please note that pre
1 January 2010 elements of this Committees remit were dealt with by
the Strategic Monitoring Committee. These can be accessed by
selecting an appropriate year in the drop down box and then
selecting the Committee from the refreshed list.
Prior to 27 May 2011 the Council
had Scrutiny Committees for: Adult Social Care and Strategic
Housing; Children’s Services, Community Services;
Environment, and Health and the history for these committees can be
found by following a similar procedure to that described
above.
Purpose of this
Committee
The purpose of this Overview & Scrutiny Committee was to ensure
the accountability and transparency of the Council's decision
making process.
The principal roles of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee
were to:
·
Help in developing
Council policy
·
Probe, investigate, test the options and ask the
difficult questions before and after decisions are taken
·
Look in more detail at areas of concern which may
have been raised by the Cabinet itself, by other Councillors or by
members of the public
·
"call in"
decisions - this is a statutory power
which gives Scrutiny Committees the right to place a decision on
hold pending further scrutiny.
·
Review performance of the Council
·
Undertake external scrutiny work engaging partners
and the public
Formal
meetings of the Committee were held in public.