(i)

changes in membership of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board and the role of members of the Board who were not Chairs of Overview and Scrutiny Panels;

(ii)

work being undertaken to improve the format of the Annual Scrutiny Report, following discussion at a recent Council meeting;

(iii)

the work carried out by scrutiny on improving the shared priorities for the city and the council;

(iv)

the future of scrutiny having regard to forthcoming legislation including the Decentralisation and Localism Bill, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, the Academies and Education and Children’s Bills and the Public Health Bill.  The proposal for the creation of a Health and Wellbeing Board and the introduction of directly elected police commissioners would also present challenges for scrutiny. Workshops had been arranged to discuss the new proposals and to consider how scrutiny would engage with them.

(i)

at the request of the Chair of the Children and Young People’s Overview and Scrutiny Panel, a revised version of their report was tabled which would supersede that which had been circulated with the agenda;

(ii)

reports were not consistent in the way that Members were addressed (this related to the section of the reports reflecting Members’ attendance where sometimes councillors’ initials were used and sometimes not and sometimes Mrs. was used and sometimes not).

(1)

there should be consistency in the way Members were addressed across all reports;

(2)

the format and content of the quarterly reports be reviewed.  Panel Chairs, in liaison with Lead Officers, to work toward developing a new and interesting format and style for future reports, examples of which to be trialled when the next quarterly updates were due.