Agenda and minutes

Executive Scrutiny Committee - Thursday, 22nd October, 2020 7.15 pm

Venue: VIRTUAL - Live on the Council's YouTube channel: Hillingdon London. View directions

Contact: Mark Braddock - Statutory Scrutiny Officer 

Link: Watch the LIVE or on demand broadcast of this meeting here

Items
No. Item

26.

Apologies for Absence and to report the presence of any substitute Members

Minutes:

Councillor Peter Curling sent his apologies and Councillor Lynne Allen substituted for him.

27.

Declarations of Interest in Matters coming before this meeting

Minutes:

No interests were declared by Members present.

28.

To receive the minutes of the meeting held on 24 September 2020 pdf icon PDF 111 KB

Minutes:

The minutes of the virtual meeting held on 24 September 2020 were agreed as a correct record.

 

29.

Exclusion of Press and Public

To confirm that the items of business marked Part I will be considered in public and that the items marked Part II will be considered in private.

Minutes:

Items to be considered in public and those in private were confirmed.

 

30.

Follow-up: Matters for clarification from the last meeting pdf icon PDF 60 KB

To receive the responses on any information requests or clarifications on matters from the previous Cabinet meeting and associated reports.

Minutes:

Clarifications from the last meeting were noted.

31.

Consideration of Executive Decisions Taken and any Call-Ins pdf icon PDF 106 KB

To undertake the statutory scrutiny role of executive decision-making by the London Borough of Hillingdon, and in particular to review decisions made by the Cabinet prior to this meeting. Members should consider any other decision taken by a Cabinet Member(s) or key decision taken by an Officer published in the five working days before this meeting.

 

Minutes:

Members had watched the virtual Cabinet meeting held prior so that they could review the Cabinet reports and decisions made.

 

On the Hillingdon Safeguarding  Annual Report, Members sought confirmation that all the recommendations in the Serious Case Review of child X by Jane Wonnacott published in December 2019 had been addressed.

 

Submitted outside the meeting, but agreed by the Committee, the Representative Member for Education Issues queried what the Council was doing in respect of training for Career Advisers in respect of Looked After Children.

 

On the Monthly Budget Monitoring Report, the Committee asked how had the 17.5% growth in Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) in Hillingdon been contributed to by the backlog and how many cases were still outstanding?

 

RESOLVED: – That the decisions made by the Cabinet at their meeting on 22 October 2020 be endorsed and that no call-in be made.