Scrutiny

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has appointed four Scrutiny Committees.  The role of our Scrutiny Committees is to look at the services and issues that affect the lives of people in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Scrutiny is a key part of the Council's political structure and plays an important role in ensuring that the Council's services are delivered effectively, efficiently and in the interests of residents and those who work or visit the Vale of Glamorgan by listening to local people, challenging and influencing decision-making and, where necessary, seeking improvement for the benefit of the public.

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has appointed four Scrutiny Committees, which also come together twice a year to form a collaborative Corporate Plan Performance Monitoring Committee.  The role of our Scrutiny Committees is to look at the services and issues that affect the lives of people in the Vale of Glamorgan and raise impactful recommendations for consideration by the Council's Cabinet.

Scrutiny Committees and Memberships

The Four Scrutiny Committees in the Vale of Glamorgan are: 

• Starts Well Scrutiny Committee

   - Schools

   - School Improvement

   - Post 16 Education and Training

   - Skills 

   - Additional Learning Needs (ALN)

   - Youth Service

   - Families First, Flying Start

   - Welsh (external policy)

   - Play

   

  Meetings Calender, Agendas and Minutes

   

   

•  Live Well Scrutiny Committee

    - Adult Services

    - Children's Services

    - Libraries, Arts and Culture

    - Leisure and Sport

    - Adult Community Learning

    - Community Safety

    - Homelessness

    - Public Protection - Shared Regulatory Services

    - Equalities (external policy)

   

  Meetings Calender, Agenda and Minutes

   

•  Place Scrutiny Committee

    - Economical Development and Regeneration

    - Tourism

    - Countryside and Parks

    - Waste management and Cleansing

    - Highways and engineering

    - Planning

    - Transportation

    - Climate and nature emergency

    - Placemaking

    - Public and Private Sector Housing

   

  Meetings Calender, Agendas and Minutes

   

•  Resources Scrutiny Committee

    - Corporate Policy and Performance

    - Communications and Participation

    - Customer Relations

   

    - Finance

    - Procurement

    - Digital

    - Human Resources

    - Equalities (internal policy)

    - Welsh language (internal policy)

   

  Meetings Calender, Agendas and Minutes

   

   

   

    

   

•  Performance Joint Scrutiny Commitee

   All four committees combined, meeting twice annually to form a collaborative Corporate   Plan Performance Monitoring Committee.

   

  Meetings Calender, Agendas and Minutes  

   

   

General Scrutiny Information

• Scrutiny and Cabinet
   The Vale of Glamorgan Council adopted a Leader and Cabinet style decision system with Scrutiny Committees established to advise on policy formulation and hold the Cabinet (also known as the Executive) to account as a critical friend.

  
  For more information on how the relationship between Cabinet and Scrutiny Committees works, you can view the Council’s Scrutiny and Cabinet Roles and Responsibilities Protocol.
  

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•  Scrutiny Procedure
   

  You can request a service area or matter to be considered by Scrutiny Committee (in line with the procedure outlined below), this could be an issue where there is likely to be an improvement for local people.

   

   

  The Scrutiny Committees will be unable to consider any issue that is already subject to internal review/consideration by the Council or external review by an external body.

  It is also important that you are aware that matters relating to specific cases falling within the Council's Complaints Procedure and individual disciplinary/grievance matters are also outside the remit of the Scrutiny Committees.

   

  Should the Committee agree to consider the matter you will be advised of the process that will be undertaken and the date of the meeting.

   

  If you wish to submit a request, please complete the Scrutiny Review Topic Suggestion form or contact the Democratic and Scrutiny Services Section.

   

   

•  Agendas, Minutes and Recordings
   

  There are at least 6 meetings of each Scrutiny Committee each year, and they generally start at 6.00 p.m (unless otherwise stated on the meeting papers).

   

  All meetings are open to the public unless confidential matters are being discussed.  If a matter is confidential then it will be labelled as so on the front of the meeting papers. All papers can be found on the Council’s website.

   

   

  Meetings are usually held remotely and can be watched live via our YouTube Channel.

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• democratic@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk