Decision details
Health and Well Being Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Terms of Reference
Decision status: Recommmend Forward to Council
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decisions:
The Director of Law, HR and Asset Management reported that at its meeting on 8 September 2009 (minute 16 refers), the Health and Well Being Overview and Scrutiny Committee referred the following proposed amendments to its terms of reference to the Cabinet for consideration:
Social Inclusion – Paragraph 4:
Social inclusion and to promote the role of the local authority, working with the NHS community on Wirral, to improve Public Health and well-being and to address health inequalities. [Sentence put into better English]
All Portfolios – Paragraph 13:
To support the Council’s equal opportunity policies by promoting and monitoring initiatives to encourage equality of opportunity amongst disadvantaged groups. [Delete all wording at the end of this paragraph: ‘including: the disabled, ethnic minorities, the long term unemployed, the poor and women’]
RECOMMENDED – That the proposed amendments to the terms of reference be forwarded to the Council for determination.
Publication date: 23/10/2009
Date of decision: 15/10/2009
Decided at meeting: 15/10/2009 - Cabinet
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