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The Customers, Performance, Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee, which checks the Council's work, agreed its work programme with several changes to dates and topics. It also considered the second-year update on the ICT and Digital Strategy 2024-27, asked for an all-member workshop, and requested more detail in the next report.
The Committee considered the council's final 2025/26 budget result, known as the outturn, its annual workforce monitoring report and its work programme. It supported the final revenue position and moved £165,761 into the Budget Mitigation reserve, a fund set aside for budget pressures. It asked the Chair to write to Welsh Government about funding for additional learning needs (ALN), and it expressed concern about rising sickness absence and lower staff engagement.
The Committee considered an update from its Task and Finish Group on the future of the former Groves building in Wrexham, which has been empty for years. It endorsed the group's work, supported a proposed disposal (sale or transfer) of the site, and asked the Executive Board to consider four issues before its meeting on 9 June 2026.
The Committee considered its work programme, the Council Front Door Project and an update on planning governance. It agreed the work programme with several changes, and asked for more information and an open day on the Front Door Project. It welcomed the increase in planning enforcement resource and asked for a planning information digest for all Members.
The Customers, Performance, Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee agreed its work programme, moving the Council Front Door Project progress report from April to 14 May 2026. It also considered an update on the Council's Change Programme, which was set up to address the forecast budget gap. The Committee recommended that an engagement strategy be developed and asked for more detailed reports on the programme in future.
The committee considered the third-quarter revenue budget update, which checks day-to-day spending against budget, a six-month review of the Hybrid Working Policy (a mix of office and home working), and its work programme. It agreed to invite senior officers and Lead Members to the June 2026 budget outturn item, and recommended Teams training for Members and a cost-of-living review of the hybrid policy. Its work programme was also changed, with the Planning Governance update moved to May and a joint workshop with Flintshire on the Public Service Board set for June.
The committee agreed its work programme, with changes to when budget monitoring reports come to it. It also considered the quarter 2 Council Plan performance report for 2025-26 and made recommendations on future performance reports and an anti-poverty workshop.
The committee reviewed savings made in the 2025/26 budget and the provisional settlement for 2026/27. It also heard about the Council Front Door Project, which aims to make it easier to contact the Council by phone, online and in person. Members were satisfied with the in-year savings position and agreed changes to several dates in the work programme.
The Committee met to agree its work programme and to consider an interim report on the council's workforce for April to September 2025. On the work programme, Members agreed to move some reports to later meetings. On the workforce report, Members asked for a Health and Well-being Champion to attend the annual report and for more consistent reporting on sickness absence.
The committee heard the annual report of the Flintshire and Wrexham Public Services Board, a partnership of public bodies, and asked the Chair to write to the Board with three points. It then agreed its work programme, with changes to timing and pre-decision scrutiny of three budget and performance reports.
The committee agreed its work programme, with one deferral, and kept the membership of the Groves Task and Finish Group unchanged for now. It also thanked officers for the Council Plan annual performance report, recommended five changes, and congratulated ICT staff on the first-year update of the ICT and Digital Strategy.
The committee agreed its work programme with several changes, including moving the ICT and Digital Strategy report to September and removing the annual Self-Assessment report from its list. It noted the first quarter budget monitoring report, asking for more detail in some areas, and thanked officers for the annual workforce monitoring report while supporting efforts to reduce sickness absence and expand the 'Grow our Own' schemes.
The Committee met on 19 June 2025 to review its work programme and the council's final budget outturn for 2024/25. It agreed several changes to its programme, including deferring the ICT and Digital Strategy report to a later meeting. It also agreed that the Chair should write to the Leader about the Hybrid Working Policy, and said it was satisfied with how the council monitored the 2024/25 budget.
The committee met on 2 June 2025 to appoint its Chair and to consider a call-in of the Executive Board's decision of 13 May 2025 on the Hybrid Working Policy. A call-in means non-executive councillors ask a scrutiny committee to review a decision before it takes effect. The committee agreed to refer the decision back to the Executive Board for reconsideration.
The committee looked at the Council's Change Programme, the set of projects the Council launched to find savings and change how services work. It agreed to recommend that the Lead Member for Finance and Performance receive a further update in October 2025, including a model for embedding the culture change needed for transformation. It also agreed its work programme, moving the planning governance update to October 2025 and adding a hybrid working progress report for March 2026.
The committee agreed two changes to its work programme and asked for a further progress report on planning governance. It also agreed recommendations on the draft hybrid working policy for Executive Board, the council's main decision-making body.
The committee considered the third-quarter revenue budget update for 2024/25, which forecast a pressure (overspend) of £4.8m before planned mitigations. It also agreed changes to its work programme for April and May 2025. Members asked for more detail on grant spending and for task and finish group reports to be shared with this committee.
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