Agenda item

8.1

The Policy and Improvement Officer submitted a paper containing the Committee’s draft Work Programme 2014/15.

8.2

Councillor Colin Ross raised the Child and Household Poverty Strategy as a possible item for discussion by the Committee. It was reported that the Strategy was currently being developed, and the consultation period would run until the end of September, 2014.

8.2

RESOLVED: That the Committee agrees the draft Work Programme 2014/15, as detailed in the paper now submitted, subject to the following amendments:-

(a)  an item on the Child and Household Poverty Strategy being added as an item for discussion at its next meeting on 22^nd September, 2014;

(b)  the Sheffield Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) Annual Report being added as an item for discussion at the meeting on 9^th March, 2015; and

(c)  Pathways for People at 18 being identified as a possible future item for discussion, but due to the links with the Economic and Environmental Wellbeing Scrutiny and Policy Development Committee, it was agreed that the Chair of this Committee would raise this with the Chair of that Committee as a possible joint meeting.