Agenda

To receive any apologies for absence.

To appoint the Vice-Chairman of the Committee for the remainder of the 2024/25 Municipal Year.

To approve as a correct record the Minutes of the meetings of this Committee held on 10 June 2024, 7 October 2024 and 11 October 2024.

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 second quarter of 2024/25.

To inform the Joint Public Protection Committee (JPPC) of the submission and results of the annual air quality reports for Bracknell Forest and West Berkshire Councils. These reports are for the monitoring data and action planning update for the calendar year 2023.

To inform the JPPC that the annual air quality report for Wokingham Borough Council has also been submitted and the results received and passed on to Wokingham Borough Council in accordance with the shared service arrangements effective from the 1 April 2022.

To provide the Committee with an update on the work of the Public Protection Service in tackling fraud, unfair trading and financial abuse.