Liverpool City Council - Corporate Services select committee

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Friday 19 March 2010

Corporate Services select committee

There are eleven elected members on this select committee.

You can view the agendas and minutes we produce for this committee.

This committee is responsible for the:

• robustness of financial planning and management, including the medium-term financial plan, the annual budgeting process and spend, audit activities, procurement and treasury management strategy and practice.  
• progress against the recommendations made in the corporate assessment, as taken forward via the council's strategic innovation and improvement plan (SIIP).
• effectiveness of performance management arrangements in the authority, including progress agains the council's corporate aims and priorities as set out in the corporate plan.
• council's approach to the management of risk, including the corporate risk register.
• arrangements the council has in place to secure value for money, with particular emphasis on high cost, low performing services provided both internally, and with service delivery partners.
• ICT used with the council and by our customers.
• council's HR issues, including the workforce development strategy, health and safety and occupational health functions.
• Revenues and Benefits service, scrutinising council tax collection, non-domestic rates and community charge, housing benefit, council tax benefit, education awards, the Benefit Maximisation service, and the Corporate Debt team.
• council's response to the new national performance regime for local government and our partners, the comprehensive area assessment.
• performance of service partners and joint ventures.
• outcomes of service reviews relevant to the responsiblities of the select committee.
• council's role in European affairs.
• receiving and monitoring progress with improvement plans arising from external inspection reports.
• decisions of the executive board, the deputy Leader and the executive member for Corporate Performance.

2008/09 work programme and scrutiny panels

View the committee's work programme for 2008/09. 

For 2008/09 the committee has a People Development Strategy scrutiny panel.

See the 'scrutiny panels' page for more information and previous year's panels.

Annual reports.

View the 2007/08 annual report for Resources and Corporate Services select committee (the 2007/08 committee that covered the same areas as Corporate Services now does).