Meetings
Every meeting of Newport City Council's committees. Meetings of the full Council, the Cabinet, scrutiny and planning committees get a plain-language summary once their minutes are published.
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Council then agreed Cabinet portfolios, committee chairs and committee seats, and gave effect to appointments to outside bodies.
It recommended that Full Council adopt two plans, one on community safety in Newport and one on serious violence across Gwent. Cabinet also noted a monthly update on the cost of living and pressures on council services.
The Committee made a series of recommendations asking officers for a clearer structure diagram, clearer and separated training data, and more detail in future reports.
The Performance Scrutiny Committee - Partnerships considered two updates on council-funded children's services run with partners: the South East Wales Adoption Service and the Fostering Service. For both, the minutes record no council decision. Instead, the Committee praised the work, asked for more detail in future reports, and recommended ongoing monitoring of new initiatives.
Full Council met on 23 April 2024. Councillors agreed to raise basic councillor pay to £18,666 from 1 April 2024, adopted the staff pay and reward policy for 2024/25 and adopted a Strategic Equality Plan for 2024 to 2028. They also agreed to let officers make minor land and property decisions up to £100,000, and approved school governing body appointments. The Leader said the Council will not move to four-weekly bin collections.