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Decision details
Overview & Scrutiny Review of Changes to the Welfare System : Management Response
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To receive the Overview and Scrutiny Committee's recommendations following the Overview and Scrutiny Review of Changes to the Welfare System.
Decisions:
Councillor Davies, as chair of the original Scrutiny review, presented the review team’s findings to Cabinet. The purpose of the review had been to assess the impact of the reforms, and the potential effects of further planned changes to the welfare system. Members intended that the recommendations of the review should compliment the ongoing work to revise the anti-poverty action plan.
Members had met with representatives of key partners in the advice and housing sector, to understand how the changes had impacted the council and other agencies. Consideration had been given to methodology for measuring fairness of the reforms, an example of a fairness square, which set out four key principles of equitable decision making, had been appended to the report. Members noted that this methodology could be applied within the council’s decision making process.
The Director of Regeneration presented the management response to the review. He acknowledged that the review team had aimed to consider the impact of the reforms in a holistic and objective way. Moreover, there were further challenges in assessing the cumulative impact of the reforms, as not all of the planned changes had yet been introduced. The management response addressed each of the recommendations from the review and options for their implementation. Discussion took place regarding options to engage with the University of Brighton on longer term monitoring of the impact of the reforms.
Cabinet thanked all those involved in the Scrutiny review process for their efforts.
Councillor Forward moved approval of the recommendations to the report, as set out in the resolution below, which was seconded by Councillor Hodges.
RESOLVED (by 6 votes for 1 against) that –
1) Cabinet welcome the report expresses its appreciation of the work of members in assessing the impact of reforms on local people and organisations, and;
2) Cabinet agree the responses set out in the table in paragraph 6 of the report
The reason for this decision was:
To respond to the report of the Overview and Scrutiny review of changes to the welfare system.
Report author: Simon Hubbard
Publication date: 09/07/2014
Date of decision: 07/07/2014
Decided at meeting: 07/07/2014 - Cabinet
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