Liverpool City Council - Culture, Media and Sport select committee

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Saturday 5 July 2008

Culture, Media and Sport select committee

There are eleven elected members and four advisory members on this select committee.

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

This committee is responsible for:

• Liverpool as a Capital of Culture city
• Monitoring and evaluating  the sport and recreation strategy for the city
• to ensure that a co-ordinated and strategically planned approach is adopted that will achieve the implementation of the approved strategies in relation to tourism and play
• monitoring, evaluating and influencing  the city and the city's regions tourism strategy
• monitoring, evaluating and influencing the city's arts and creative industries strategies
• monitoring and evaluating the service delivery and performance of  the Libraries and Information Services
• Community safety, both city-wide and area based strategy and initiatives
• overseeing the strategic approach to the management and use of the city's civic and historic buildings
• overseeing and evaluating the Youth service
• responsibility for the Youth Offending service
• overseeing a programme of fundamental performance reviews
• overseeing risk management arrangements within the service area
• monitoring the implementation of earlier agreed service improvement plans
• monitoring national and local performance indicators
• monitoring the implementation of  service improvement plans      

2007/08 work programmes and scrutiny panels

View the committee's 2007/08 work programme 

During 2007/08 this committee hasone scrutiny panel:

• the community safety scrutiny panel - view this panel's agendas and minutes

Previous year's work programmes

For 2006/07 the committee's work programme included work on:

• the preparations for Capital of Culture 2008
• Liverpool's 800th birthday celebrations in 2007
• the library service's annual report
• developing the city's film and digital media industry
• improving Liverpool's sport and recreation facilities      

Previous year's scrutiny panels

For 2006/07, this select committee set up a Capital of Culture scrutiny panel to carry out an in-depth scrutiny into the preparations for Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year in 2008.
You can view the capital of culture agendas and minutes for this scrutiny panel