Issue - meetings

Report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services requesting that the Committee agree the terms of reference for a scrutiny inquiry examining how Southampton can become a dementia friendly city, attached.

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services requesting that the Committee agree the terms of reference for a scrutiny inquiry examining how Southampton could become a dementia friendly City.

It was suggested that the following be included within the inquiry programme:

·  Fareham high street - the first dementia friendly high street;

·  work of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on social care; and

·  examples of dementia friendly communities, for example Torbay and Plymouth.

RESOLVED

(i)  that the draft terms of reference for the scrutiny inquiry be approved; and

(ii)  that authority be delegated to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, in consultation with the Chair of the Scrutiny Inquiry Panel, to finalise the inquiry plan.