Issue - meetings
VERBAL UPDATES FROM SCRUTINY LEADS
Meeting: 10/09/2013 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 9)
VERBAL UPDATES FROM SCRUTINY LEADS
(Time allocated – 5 minutes each)
Minutes:
Scrutiny Lead Member Health – Cllr Saunders
Reported that Barts and the London NHS Trust had attended the Health Scrutiny Panel and advised that they had voluntarily gone into a process of ‘Financial Turn Around’. (FTA) The Trust remained in control of its finances, unlike other trusts where the Government had appointed independent administrators. The Trust had appointed financial consultants to assist it with the FTA process. However the Trust Board priorities were no longer change and development but identifying savings. This circumstance had been created by Government requirements for in year one off savings from the existing Budget and ongoing issues with a Private Finance Initiative. More work was required to identify and scrutinise the savings and there were concerns regarding false economies of freezing posts and filling these with temporary staff during the FTA process.
Scrutiny Lead Member Communities, Localities and Culture – Cllr Helal Uddin
Youth Provision, which had been returned in-house for a year was being examined and it was expected there would be a Challenge Session or Spotlight later in the year.
Scrutiny Lead Member Resources – Cllr Eaton
The support given to Council staff with autism and dyslexia was being examined.
The Chair Moved and it was:-
Resolved
That the verbal updates be noted.