Decision details

The Committee received a report on the Establishment of a Task and Finish Group from the Director for Law and Governance.

Mrs. Wylie, Director for Law and Governance introduced the report by highlighting that at the last meeting of this Committee, Members had considered the Workplan and had indicated that they would like to undertake a review of Housing Management Voids and Temporary Accommodation.  Mrs. Wylie drew Members attention to Appendix 1 of the report (Terms of Reference), advising that the scoping exercise could be used to determine if these were appropriate.  Any revisions would be proposed at the next meeting of this Committee and would not inhibit the Task Group from starting the review.  The revised Scoping Document and an update on the work of the Group would be presented at the next meeting.

A Member commented that they did not want to lose focus on Homelessness.  The impact of registered social landlords and private landlords needed to be considered.

RESOLVED

(1)  To APPROVE the establishment of a Task and Finish Group to review Housing Voids Management and Temporary Accommodation.  The review will support the organisational review of service quality and will give Members the opportunity to understand the systems thinking methodology currently being deployed for service improvement;

(2)  To APPROVE the Terms of Reference (which included the scope of the review) and NOTE that revisions may be proposed to the next meeting of the Committee, as scheduled in the Annual Calendar of Meetings, once a Scoping Document has been completed by the Group.  Any revisions shall not inhibit the Group from commencing the review;

(3)  To NOTE  that the Scoping Document shall include a timetable for completion of the review and shall be presented to the next meeting of the Committee, as scheduled in the Annual Calendar of Meetings;

(4)  To APPROVE the membership of the Task and Finish Group to be no more than four Members, which shall include the Chair of this Committee and three other Members, as determined by the Chair (one place to be offered to the Opposition Group).