The Board agreed to appoint Councillor Mrs Bowyer as Chair Vice for this particular meeting.

Members will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on this agenda.

There were no declarations of interest made by councillors in accordance with the code of conduct in relation to items under consideration at this meeting.

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will be asked to agree the minutes of the meeting held on 19 August 2015.

The Board agreed that the minutes of the meeting held on 19 August 2015 are confirmed as a correct record.

To receive reports on business which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be brought forward for urgent consideration.

There were no items of Chair’s urgent business.

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will be asked to consider and approve the work programmes for each panel and receive a progress update from each Chair.

The Chair reminded the Chairs that the Panels had been tasked to scrutinise the key actions and performance indicators from the Corporate Plan, on behalf of the Board.  The Board needed to be able to proactively monitor these items and would only be able to do so if they had been robustly challenged.

The Board agreed its work programme together with the work programmes for the Ambitious Plymouth Panel and the Working Plymouth Panel.

The Board, will receive notification of the decisions taken under delegated authority with the Board’s Lead Officer in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair.

The Chair reported the Working Plymouth Panel had requested an additional business meeting to scrutinise the History Centre, prior to this matter being considered at Cabinet on 13 October 2015.

The additional business meeting (scheduled to be held on 30 September 2015) had been agreed under delegated authority by the Lead Officer in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair.

The Board noted the decision.

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will monitor the progress of its previous decisions.

The Board considered its schedule of decisions and noted the latest position.

To receive new items from the Forward Plan of Key Decisions and Private Business with a view to identifying items for scrutiny.

The Board considered the key executive decisions contained within the Forward plan which were due to be discussed at by Cabinet between October 2015 and January 2016.  Three new items had been included in the plan, as follows -

The Chair advised that the Plymouth History Centre was already being scrutinised by the Working Plymouth Panel, the integrated commissioning strategies had been scrutinised by the Caring Plymouth Panel and as was normal practice the Board did not scrutinise contract awards.

The Board will receive a report on the Transformation Programme.

Councillor Jon Taylor (Cabinet Member for Transformation and Change), Les Allen (Head of Portfolio Office) and Matthew Fairclough-Kay (Transformation Programme Manager) presented the merge of Co-operative Centre of Operations and the People and Organisation Development transformation programmes which highlighted the following key areas –

In response to questions raised by Members, it was reported that –

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will be advised of any executive decisions that have been called in.

There were no call-ins to consider.

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will be advised of executive decisions that have been deemed urgent with the agreement of the Chair (if any).

There were no urgent executive decisions to consider.

To receive and consider recommendations from Panels, Cabinet and Council.

There were no recommendations to consider.

The Co-operative Scrutiny Board will be asked to consider the Living Street Co-operative Review undertaken by the Working Plymouth Panel.

Councillor Ricketts (Chair of the Working Plymouth Panel) presented the report on the Co-operative Scrutiny Review on the Living Streets Programme; the review had taken place over one session at which Members had robustly challenged the Programme.  The review had also received good media coverage.

The Board agreed to recommend approval for Cabinet to consider paragraphs 4(d) to (q) contained within the report.

To consider passing a resolution under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the press and public from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it/they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, as amended by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

There were no items of exempt business to consider.