What is Overview and scrutiny?
Overview and Scrutiny is a process that independently challenges the Council, Executive Board and other public bodies to hold them to account. The Committees work in a similar way to the Parliamentary Select Committee system and give councillors the powers to champion issues and challenge Council leaders and officers on behalf of their constituents.
Overview and Scrutiny can also make a valuable contribution in pre decision work on policy and strategy development.
How Overview and Scrutiny works in East Lindsey
The council has established an Overview Committee and two Scrutiny Committees (A and B). As Scrutiny is an independent function, Executive Board Members may not serve on these Committees.
The Overview Committee determines the areas for scrutiny and the terms of reference for the review. Topics are then allocated to one of the committees).
Committees have the power to summon Members of the Executive and Officers to appear before them to answer questions.
The Committees meet approximately every six weeks. The meeting dates, agendas and minutes are published on the website.
More detail on the scrutiny function can be found in the Scrutiny Tool kit
How to get involved
Members of the community are encouraged to get involved in the scrutiny process either by contributing evidence, attending meetings or suggesting new topics for review
