Councillor Mohammed Pappu (Chair) provided the Committee with the following update:

The Chair:

v  Informed the Committee that the latest COVID update information from public health had been circulated today.

v  Advised the Committee that (i) he had posted a short video on Twitter to thank the residents for the contribution to the Spotlight session on liveable streets programme at the last meeting; (ii) indicated that it had been a useful and productive discussion and will looked forward to reviewing the progress at a future date; (iii) had also written to Mayor Biggs on this subject putting forward the Committee's recommendations on the Liveable Streets Programme and shared these recommendations with Lead Member and Council officers; (iv) had asked Mayor Biggs to provide a written response to the recommendation which would be circulated to the Committee.

v  Advised Members that written advice had been provided as to how they can raise an issue with regard to a licensed premises to instigate a review because of potentially dangerous or irresponsible activities harming individuals, businesses, and communities.

Councillor Mohammed Pappu (Chair) provided the Committee with the following update:

v  The latest COVID update information from public health had been circulated today by officers and will aim to continue with this for every meeting.

v  The final session of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) training session on chairing skills had now taken place. The Chair indicated that he trusted that members had found these CfGS sessions useful and informative and would be incorporated within their scrutiny role.

v  The Chair encouraged members to complete their evaluation feedback so that a better assessment can be undertaken for any future training.

v  The Chair had, had a meeting with the Executive Mayor and the Director of Strategy, Improvement and Transformation to raise those concerns identified by the Committee about (i) engagement with scrutiny; (ii) the relationship between management and scrutiny; and (iii) other members of the wider Council.

v  Stressed the importance of the Councils own Communications Team in raising the profile of Scrutiny, both internally and externally as a means to improving the effectiveness of the function and felt that with regard to the Liveable Streets item 10.1 refers this support had not been provided.