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Appendix 1
Proposed Amendments to Constitution
Part 1, Chapter 6: Select (Overview and Scrutiny) Committees


Amendment to Table in Para 6.3:

Committee

Scope

Safe and Healthy People

Looking at how policies, services and decisions support safe,

well, independent, and continuously developing people

(adults and older persons); how they are implemented and

how performance is evaluated and improved.

Working alongside the Health Overview and Scrutiny

function with primary focus on how Hampshire County

Council is contributing to delivering the Wellbeing agenda

for adults; crime prevention; crime and disorder; adult social

care; promoting independence and quality of life for older

people, healthy and safe families; Regulatory Services.

Departments covered:

· Adult Services

· Chief Executive's

· Recreation and Heritage

· Property, Business and Regulatory Services

(particularly Regulatory Services)

· Any other relevant functions in other departments.

Reviewing and scrutinising decisions made, or other actions taken, in connection with the discharge of crime and disorder functions by the authorities responsible for crime and disorder strategies, and making reports or recommendations with respect to the discharge of those functions.

Part 3: D

Policy Review

1.9 Agenda items

1.9.1 Any member of a Select Committee shall be entitled to give notice to the proper

officer (Chief Executive) that they wish an item relevant to the functions of the

Committee to be included on the agenda for the next available meeting (Section 21(8)

Local Government Act 2000). On receipt of such a request, the proper officer will

ensure that it is so included.

1.9.2 Any member of the Council may refer to any Select Committee, of which they are not a member, any local government matter which is relevant to the functions of that Committee. A "local government matter" is one which relates to the discharge of any function of the Council, affects all or part of the member's division, or any person who lives or works in that are, and is not an excluded matter (for example, a planning decision) (Section 21A Local Government Act 2000).

1.9.3 Any member of the Council who is not a member of the Safe and Healthy People Select Committee may refer to that Committee a local crime and disorder matter affecting all or part of their division, or any person who lives or works in that area (Section 19 Police and Justice Act 2006).

1.9.4 A matter referred to a Select Committee under Paragraph 1.9.2 or 1.9.3 shall be included in the agenda for, and discussed at, a meeting of the Committee. Arrangements for the handling of a matter so referred shall be in accordance with a protocol agreed by the Council following consideration by Policy and Resources Select Committee and the Cabinet.

1.9.5 The Council or the Executive may request a Select Committee to consider matters referred by it or them. Where this occurs, the matter shall be placed on the agenda of the next available, convenient meeting of the committee and the committee will decide what further action should be taken.