Agenda

Members are requested to declare the existence and nature of any disclosable pecuniary interests and/or other interests, not already on their register of interests, in any item on the agenda and withdraw from the meeting at the appropriate time.

To approve as a correct record and the Chair to sign the Minutes of the Communities Scrutiny Committee held on 25 February 2026.

Council Plan Targets Performance Update.

Amar Bashir, Improvement Officer/Richard Shaw, Improvement Officer 

DUWC in attendance to present an overview on how their funding from the Authority is spent.

DUWC Representative

To receive an update on the work of the Community Safety Partnership.

Faye Green, Community Safety Manager

To hear about progress made on the Action Plans.

Lee Pepper, Assistant Director of Communities / Gary Smithurst, Housing Strategy & Homeless Manager

To inform Committee of recent and forthcoming Cabinet business.

A digest of Cabinet decisions taken since May 2025.  This information is published by Cabinet meeting on the Council’s website.  Cabinet Agendas, Decisions and Minutes can be viewed at: Cabinet

The Forward Plan of Executive decisions.

Plans

These plans are updated to include new business.

Joe Hayden, Senior Scrutiny Officer

To contribute to major Policies being considered by the Council.

To consider the Committee’s Work Programme, and to also consider and contribute to potential changes in the operating environment which may include legislation, regulation and key projects being undertaken by the Council, for example, that could form potential topic items for the Work Programme in the future. 

Joe Hayden, Senior Scrutiny Officer

To discuss the Annual Report with Committee Members.

Joe Hayden, Senior Scrutiny Officer

To consider any other matter which the Chair of the Committee is of the opinion should be considered as a matter of urgency.

The next meeting of the Communities Scrutiny Committee is scheduled for July 2026, and will be confirmed once the Committee Scheduled has been agreed.