Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence.

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of this Committee held on 8 December 2025.

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 inform the Committee of the performance of the Public Protection Partnership in line with the operating model and business plan, and provide an update setting out performance during the third quarter of 2025/26.

To set out the proposed strategy that the Shared Service will implement to harness emerging technologies to drive innovation, improve service delivery, and enhance operational efficiency across the Service where it is appropriate to do so.

To inform the Joint Public Protection Committee of the submission and results of the annual air quality report for Bracknell Forest Council. This report is for the monitoring data calendar year 2024.

The Renters Rights Act 2025 came into force in October 2025. This report sets out the basis of the new legislation, its potential resource impact and a range of recommendations for policy approval to implement the various aspects of the legislation specifically with reference to enforcement and debt recovery where penalties are not paid.

As agreed by West Berkshire Council’s Executive on 15^th July 2021, an annual report would be presented to the JPPC detailing the activities of the Bracknell and West Berkshire Water Safety Partnership.