Agenda

To elect the Chairman of the Joint Public Protection Committee for the 2024/25 Municipal Year.

To receive any apologies for absence.

To appoint the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Public Protection Committee for the 2024/25 Municipal Year.

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of this Committee held on 11 March 2024.

To consider any outstanding matters from previous meetings.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration, and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members’ Interests, the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

To note those agenda items which have received an application for public speaking.

A period of 30 minutes will be allowed for members of the public to ask questions submitted under notice.

The Partnership welcomes questions from members of the public about their work.

Subject to meeting certain timescales, questions can relate to general issues concerned with the work of the Partnership or an item which is on the agenda for this meeting. For full details of the procedure for submitting questions please contact Democratic Services.

To detail future items that the Committee will be considering.

To note the current Terms of Reference of the Committee as this is the first meeting of the new Municipal Year.

To update the Committee on the work of the Service in Q4 and to report the end of year performance outturn.

To seek authority to carry forward the revenue under-spend from 2023/24.

To identify the key service functions, activities and priorities, and identify the resource challenges for the Service.

To map the Service against local, regional and national priorities and risks.

There is a high demand from service users to respond to requests for the Public Protection Partnership to resolve nuisance complaints. The purpose of this draft policy is to set a framework that will help the PPP ensure the continuation of a consistent and transparent approach to both reactive and proactive work on nuisance issues.

The Policy, once adopted, will form part of the suite of key policies that we use to deliver the Service.

To provide an opportunity for the Committee to consider and comment on the draft policy and consultation methodology prior to the service seeking the views of our residents, service users and other stakeholders.