Overview & Scrutiny Committees
The Committees
There are four Overview and Scrutiny Committees which
correspond to the portfolios held by the Cabinet.
The Environment and Leisure Overview and Scrutiny
Committee is responsible for monitoring issues relating to
waste collection and recycling, leisure, sport, lifelong learning
including museums and the theatre, the market, cemeteries
and crematoriums, environmental health and parks and open
spaces.
The External Overview and Scrutiny
Committee is responsible for looking at partnership
agencies such as NHS bodies and the Police, as well as social
inclusion and young people.
The Regeneration and Sustainable
Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee is
responsible for monitoring issues relating to the provision of
housing, parking services, economic development and concessionary
fares.
The Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny
Committee is responsible for monitoring issues relating to
the development of policy framework documents, the budget,
performance management, corporate services and procurement.
You can find out more about each committee's work and when their
next meeting is by following the links on the left.
The Overview and Scrutiny Section also supports a Youth
Scrutiny Committee which is made up of members of
Maidstone Youth Forum and meets monthly. The Youth Scrutiny
Committee is currently looking into the provision of Sex and
Relationships Education in the Borough. If you would like
further information on this committee, please contact Louise Smith
at louisesmith@maidstone.gov.uk.
This page was last updated on 6/3/2008