Agenda

To receive apologies for inability to attend the meeting (if any).

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of the Commission held on 24 September 2024 and 17 October 2024.

To receive an update on actions following the previous Commission meeting.

To remind Members of the need to record the existence and nature of any personal, disclosable pecuniary or other registrable interests in items on the agenda, in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Purpose: To consider any petitions requiring an Officer response.

Purpose: To provide a response to issues raised by Mr Paul Morgan in relation to the Faraday Road Football Ground.

Purpose: To provide some background information and an overview of the use of Unregulated and Unregistered placements for children and young people in West Berkshire.

Purpose: To provide an overview of the Early Intervention and Family Help & Achievement Model and its impact on meeting the needs of families earlier and decreasing the need for costly long-term statutory involvement with children and their families.

Purpose: to set out the financial planning assumptions for the four years ahead over the period of the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS). This includes the latest assumptions on Government funding, and reform of Local Government Finance, and implications for the savings requirement in future budgets. The report also includes items that are to be consulted upon over the period 11 November to the 23 December 2024.

Purpose: To receive updates from the chairmen of task and finish groups appointed by the Scrutiny Commission.

Purpose: To receive an update from the Chairman of the Health Scrutiny Committee.

Purpose: To advise the Commission of items to be considered by West Berkshire Council’s Executive and to decide whether to review any of these items prior to the meeting indicated in the Forward Plan.

Purpose: To receive new items and agree and prioritise the work programme of the Commission.

RECOMMENDATION: That members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item as it is likely that there would be disclosure of exempt information of the description contained in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 specified in brackets in the heading of each item. Section 10 of Part 10 of the Constitution outlines the exclusion of the press and public to meetings.

(Paragraph 2 - Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.)

Purpose: To provide some background information and an overview of the use of Unregulated and Unregistered placements for children and young people in West Berkshire.