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Understand how council decisions are held to account.
Scrutiny is the process by which the council’s decisions and work are held to account and has three main functions:
Scrutiny is carried out by committees of councillors who are not member of the cabinet or non-executive members.
In Waltham Forest, this work is carried out by themed scrutiny committees, along with the joint Outer North East London (ONEL) joint health scrutiny committee. Non-executive councillors have been appointed to each of these committees. The committees hold a series of meetings each year, where they examine a range of issues related to the committee’s thematic area. Each committee publishes at least one report each year which outlines key findings in a particular policy area and makes recommendations for consideration by cabinet (and in some cases other stakeholders).
Scrutiny committees may invite people with particular expertise or local knowledge to sit on the committee as non-voting members or advisers. These are known as co-opted members.
Scrutiny committees can ask for a witness to attend meetings to give evidence to the committee on specific issues. Witnesses are people or representatives from organisations whose expertise, experience or opinion is relevant to a particular issue being scrutinised.
The list contains membership, contact details, meeting agenda for current and future committee meetings, decisions and minutes from previous meetings, attendance statistics and declarations of interest for each councillor involved for each committee.
Cabinet decisions on overview and scrutiny recommendations are reported in the cabinet minutes
Scrutiny Annual Report 2018/19
All scrutiny committee meetings are open to the public.
As a member of the public you can:
From this process reports and recommendations may be made to a cabinet member (portfolio holder), the cabinet or to the full council.
These recommendations aren’t binding but must be formally considered by the cabinet member, cabinet or council and the decision recorded.
Growth Scrutiny Committee Themed Review 2018/19: Smart Cities
Children and Families Scrutiny Committee Themed Review 2018/19: Parenting Support