The Healthier
Communities and Adult Social Care Scrutiny and Policy Development
Committee exercises an overview and scrutiny function in respect
of:
·
Local NHS Services and
Health Service Commissioning
·
Local Health Services,
including the power of referral to the Secretary of State for
Health
·
Public Health
·
Health
Inequalities
·
Adult Social Care and
support
·
Adult
Safeguarding
Attending
Meetings
Meetings of the Committee are open to the public.
There
is an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions and
submit petitions under the agenda item 'Public Questions and
Petitions'.
As we
are still operating under Social Distancing Rules, if you wish to
ask a question or present a petition at the meeting, you must
submit the question/petition in writing at least 2 clear days in
advance of the date of the meeting, by email to the following
address: scrutiny@sheffield.gov.uk or
by telephone 0114 2056272). This is necessary to facilitate
the management of attendance at the meeting and to maintain social
distancing. For meetings held on a
Wednesday, questions/petitions will need to be received by 9.00
a.m. on the Monday of that week. You will also be asked to provide
a contact email and/or telephone number.
Due to
health and safety restrictions in place to ensure current social
distancing rules in our meeting rooms, we are unable to guarantee
entrance to observers, as priority will be given to registered
speakers. To observe the meeting as a member of the public, please
click on the ‘view the webcast’ link provided on the
meeting page of the website.
The
Chair of the meeting has discretion as to how questions and
petitions are presented at the meeting and as to whether you are
invited to ask your question or present a petition at the meeting
or they are read out at the meeting. A response to the question or
petition will be given by the appropriate Member or Council
officer. If you are not able to
attend the meeting, your question/petition may be referred to the
appropriate Member, Council officer or organisation and an answer/response will be
provided to you.
Where a
submitted question or petition cannot be answered because time does
not allow, or where a Member undertakes to provide a written
answer/response, the written answer/response will be provided to
you and will be published on the Council website.
Please note that the
Chair of the meeting may not accept petitions or questions which
relate to:-
(i) matters not being within the
responsibility of the Local Authority or which affects the City or
its inhabitants;
(ii)
judicial or quasi-judicial matters;
(iii)
individual planning/licence/grant applications or appeals;
(iv)
named officers or Members of the Council;
(v)
confidential matters of the type referred to in Schedule 12A to the
Local Government Act, 1972; or
(vi)
matters of an irrelevant, repetitious, defamatory, frivolous or
offensive nature or a general misuse of the opportunity.
Please note that meetings will
be filmed for live or subsequent broadcast via the council’s
website. See the Council’s
Webcasting Notice for more
details.
Further
information is available on submitting petitions.
Recording is allowed at Scrutiny Committee meetings under the
direction of the Chair of the meeting. The
protocol on audio/visual recording and photography provides
further information.