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Overview and Scrutiny Committee members and meetings

 
This Committee monitors and reviews Council services and performance to make sure local needs and service standards are met. The Committee also monitors Cabinet decisions.

See committee responsibilities for more detail on this Committee's areas of work.

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee is supported by the Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee.

When and where

Meetings are usually held at the Woolwich Town Hall at 6.30pm on the first Thursday of each month.

See the meetings schedule to find out when the next meeting will be held.

Agendas and minutes

The meeting dates on the left will take you to the most recent Committee agendas and minutes.

You will find previous Overview and Scrutiny Committee agendas, decisions and minutes for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 archives here. The archive page will also explain how to make a request for earlier Committee meeting papers.

For more information on publication schedules, and finding agenda hard copies and other Council papers, see the meeting papers information page.

Members

This Committee has 11 Council members: seven Labour, three Conservative and one Liberal Democrat.

External appointees are called in when religious matters are being discussed.

* Opposition lead Member on Overview and Scrutiny
** Deputy Opposition lead Member on Overview and Scrutiny

External appointees for discussion of education matters:

Mrs Pauline Sheath, Church of England representative
see this member's financial and other interests form (pdf 25kb)
Lorraine Ball, parent governor (primary)
Vacancy, parent governor (secondary)

Committee officer

Tricia Covington
You can contact Tricia Covington using the contact details in the menu on the right.

Attending meetings

You have a right to attend Council meetings.

If you want to put forward a question on an agenda item for consideration at the meeting, it must be received in writing 24 hours before the meeting.

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