Councillors vote against changes to the remit of Powys scrutiny committees
Changes to the structure of Powys County Council’s scrutiny committees have been blocked.
At a Powys County Council meeting, on Thursday, March 2 changes to the structure that had been recommended by the Democratic Services committee were debated by councillors
This had been done to share out some of the work of the Economic, Residents and Communities (ERC) scrutiny committee.
Under the news proposals scrutiny of Social Services would be split between two separate scrutiny committees.
Head of legal and democratic service Clive Pinney said: “The ERC deals with everything in the council with the exception of education and social care, that is a huge task.”
The new committee scrutiny structure would be Children’s and Young People, Economy and Environment and Adults and Housing.
Conservative Councillor Amanda Jenner is the chairwoman of the Health and Care scrutiny committee which deals with social services.
Cllr Jenner said: “I’m not in favour of this proposal.
“I think it’s a shame we’ve been working really well.
