Agenda item

7.1

The Policy and Improvement Officer submitted a report containing the Committee’s Draft Work Programme 2016/17, which set out a number of different topics for consideration by the Committee at its scheduled meetings during 2016/17.

7.2

Diane Owens stated that the Hate Crime Task Group would be meeting for the first time next week and that a brief update on the work of the Task Group would be reported at the Committee’s meeting on 20^th October 2016.  She added that regular update reports on hate crime statistics would be submitted to future meetings of the Committee, from October 2016.

7.3

The Committee noted the contents of the report now submitted, together with the comments now made.