Programme at glance
“Reaching out: working with executives, partners and the public to increase scrutiny’s effectiveness”
9.15 Registration and refreshments
10.00 Welcome and outline of day
10.15 Workshop sessions: How scrutiny should work with executive-side officers
11.30 Refreshments and exhibition viewing
11.45 Case study: Partnership working - Example of effective engagement between a scrutiny body and a partner in delivering local change, and Q&A session.
12.15 Evidence for Accountability - Findings of research project
13.00 Lunch and exhibition viewing
14.00 Workshop sessions – key skills for partnership working
15.15 Refreshements and exhibition viewing
15.30 Panel discussion: the view from partners - What do partners think of scrutiny? How do they think that scrutiny should engage with them? What successes do they think that joint work could achieve?
16.30 Joint Pleanry
16.45 Close of conference
WORKSHOPS - 10.15
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A1: How scrutiny should work with executive-side officers in developing council policy
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A2: Committment from partners - how to get buy in from those unfamiliar with scrutiny, and build relationships
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A3: A home for scrutiny within the partnership rather than in the authority – the future position of the function
WORKSHOPS - 14.00
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B1: Skills necessary to work with the public – going beyond “consultation”
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B2: Becoming an “instant expert” – how scrutiny officers could get support from partners and others to support evidence-gathering for scrutiny reviews
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B3: Building relationships and understanding partners’ needs – how scrutiny can have a role in mediating between different partners, or between partners and the council