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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The Committee considered mid-year progress reports for 2025-26 from Children's Services, Adult Services, and Prevention and Inclusion. It asked for more information on budget monitoring, overspends and how adapted social housing is allocated, and it congratulated Children's Services on an award. The minutes record no decision on the work programme and outcomes update.
Full Council met on 25 November 2025. It approved the annual reports of the Governance and Audit Committee, the Democratic Services Committee and the Head of Democratic Services, the 2024/25 Corporate Plan self-assessment and the 2025-27 Corporate Plan update, the 2024/25 Strategic Equality Plan report, and a new Public Spaces Protection Order for dog control. It also supported two notices of motion, one opposing the Digital ID scheme and one asking the Welsh Government to link HMO licensing with planning, agreed governing body appointments, and changed some polling places.
The Committee scrutinised the mid-year progress reports for three service areas in 2025/26: People, Policy and Transformation; Finance; and Law and Standards. It made comments and recommendations on staff check-in targets, Community Asset Transfers, complaints reporting, Customer Services staffing and Finance headcount figures.
The Committee considered the 2024/25 annual report of Newport Norse, the joint venture between Newport City Council and the Norse Group that manages property and facilities services for the council. The report shows turnover of £29.9m and a surplus of £1.4m, and the Committee asked for future reports to include more detail on the workforce, asset management and public awareness.
Cabinet met on 12 November 2025. It noted the September revenue budget forecast, which shows an underspend of £341k overall, and approved three uses of reserves and budget. It approved a new Empty Homes Strategy for 2025-2030, delegated the appointment of an independent panel for a Panel Performance Assessment to the Chief Executive, noted the Gwent Well-being Plan annual report, and noted the Estyn inspection outcomes for Newport schools.
The Committee noted and endorsed the performance and Section 106 reports. The minutes provided do not record decisions on individual planning applications.
The committee considered an update on the Customer Contact Improvement Project, which aims to make it easier for residents to contact the council. Members made several recommendations and comments, including asking Cabinet, the council's senior councillors who take most decisions, to keep providing financial support for the project.