Archived decisions

Item 12

Hampshire County Council

Policy & Resources Select Committee

Work Programme 2007-8

Topic

Method of scrutiny

Review of Hampshire County Council Scrutiny arrangements

Major review for 2008: Policy review/development.

Scrutiny of performance and finance

Monitoring performance/holding the Executive to account through biannual briefing days and in-committee scrutiny of the Council's budgets and performance

IT: joint working between health and social care

Regular reports on progress from the Head of IT

Hantsdirect Contact Centre implementation

Reports to the Committee at each Phase of project implementation (April and July meetings) to respond to specific enquiries from Committee members in 2007. Members visit to Contact Centre to be arranged in early 2008.

Corporate Biodiversity Action Plan

Monitoring progress with implementation of the Plan. Reports to Committee during 2008.

Regular monitoring and pre-scrutiny of items of interest to the Committee

Pre-scrutiny of Executive reports and exploring areas of interest or concern to the committee

Nb. In addition to the work detailed above, the Committee is also finalising work on its 2007 review of Furniture Procurement and Replacement. The Review Group will report to the P&RSC in May 2008.