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1.1 Councillors M Howells
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3.1 The minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as a true and proper record. 3.2 The Committee requested 9.4 of the minutes be confirmed as to whether members could be sent reports on limited assurances at the same time as officers.
4.1 The Committee noted the contents of the recommendation table.
5.1 The Strategic Director for Social Services presented the report. - The report covered an update on progress made against recommendation 2 of the 2024 review. - In 2025 the uptake of basic safeguarding training for elected members was 86%. - The VAWDASV Group 1 training provided to elected members currently had an uptake of 51%, with an additional two dates provided to increase uptake further. - The VAWDASV Group 6 training had an uptake of 53%. - The Local Authority has recently moved its e-learning to a new platform called Thinqi. This would be rolled out to elected Members in coming weeks. 5.2 The Committee recommended that the VAWDASV and Safeguarding training be classified as essential training for elected members. 5.3 The Committee recommended that the Council consider what action (if any) be taken against Councillors who have failed to attend the Safeguarding and/or VAWDASV training. 5.4 The Committee recommended that the Council consider the issue of how to address future training in these learning areas to the Democratic Services Committee and the Standards Committee for further investigation. 5.5 The Committee recommended that a training package for Safeguarding and VAWDASV be included in the induction training package for all members elected in 2027. 5.6 The Committee recommended the contents of the report be noted.
6.1 The Head of Law and Standards presented the report. - The two key joint committees in Newport are the Greater Gwent Cremation Joint Committee and the Gwent Archives Joint Committee. - The statutory purpose of a joint committee is to discharge a council’s function. - Scrutiny committees do have a remit to monitor and question the joint committees to ensure the functions are being satisfied. - Dr Barry commented that the briefing note had been written in response to a query they had raised at a previous meeting, and recommended that future briefing notes contain the question the report aims to answer within the introduction, for clarity. 6.2 The Committee requested a report be drafted to cover the following: - Current provisions of the joint committees, focusing on transparency and the reporting arrangements in place with Newport City Council concerning the work carried out by these committees. 6.3 The Committee noted the contents of the briefing note and awaited a further update.
7.1 The Senior Finance Business Partner (Chief Accountant) presented the report. - The Strategy was a rollover from 2025/26 period. - Overall messaging has stayed the same since the 2025/26 report. - The Strategy is based on a variety of assumptions which drives the capital financial requirements and the overall need to borrow. - The capital financing cost will begin to exceed the available budget in 2028/29 before falling again in 2031 as the previous scheme has been paid off. - Investment in the future will be required to afford the current capital programme. - Various things could change these figures such as interest rate changes and slippage. - There were no changes to the Minimum Revenue Provision (MRP) strategy as in the prior year. 7.2 The Committee noted the Capital Strategy (Appendix 2), including the draft Capital Programme within it (shown separately in Appendix 1), and the borrowing requirements/limits needed to deliver the new programme. 7.3 The Committee noted the Treasury Management Strategy and Treasury Management Indicators, the Investment Strategy and the MRP policy for 2026/27 (Appendix 3). 7.4 The Committee noted the increasing debt, and corresponding revenue cost of this, in delivering the Capital Programme, and the implications of this over both the short and medium to long term.
8.1 The Performance and Programme Manager and Audit Wales Representative presented the report. - Two local reviews had been completed by Audit Wales, one on Scrutiny Arrangements and the other on Environment and Public Protection service area. - Audit Wales also completed a report on the Corporate Joint Committee. - Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) conducted one inspection of the Southeast Wales Adoption Service and five inspections of children’s and adult services. - Estyn published 5 thematic reports and 4 school reports. - All updates from the recommendations in July were updated in the report. - The Food Standard Agency update was coming to Committee in March. - The Environment and Public Protection service area review had three recommendations with the relevant responses included within the report. - The Scrutiny Arrangements review also had three recommendations with the responses included within the report. - Both the Environment and Public Protection and the Scrutiny Arrangements reviews were positive in nature. 8.2 The Committee noted the contents of the report and awaited the progress update in July 2026.
9.1 Strategic Director – Transformation and Corporate presented the report. - The Committee were provided with training before the Committee meeting. - The Local Authority has to participate in the Panel Performance Assessment (PPA)within an electoral cycle. - The PPA will be organised through the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) with an independent chair from another local authority. - The assessment covers how duties are discharged and resources are used as well as additional key themes identified as important to the Local Authority - The assessment will take place week commencing 2 March 2026. - Any responses made to recommendations provided following the assessment will be presented to the Governance and Audit Committee before passing to Cabinet and Council. 9.2 The Committee noted the contents of the report
10.1 The Head of People, Policy and Transformation presented the report. - The November update was covered in this update however this was now outdated. - Quarter 3 will be presented at the March 2026 Committee. - 13 risks were identified, with six being major as shown on page 120 of the agenda papers 10.2 The Committee noted the contents of the report and awaited the further progress update in Quarter 3.
11.1 The Committee were reminded of the SWAP Audit System training due to occur before the 26 March 2026 Committee.
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